110: The History of Healing with Prayer

Description

This unit includes information on Gem Therapy and Prayer Beads, Color Therapy and Places of Worship, Yoga, Islamic Prayer and Physical Benefits of Prayer Positions. The goal for this unit is to introduce the student to a number of methods of healing used historically and in various cultural traditions. This unit strives to create a feeling of continuity and unity in the concepts put forth by traditional medicine and de-mystifies many methods used in traditional Arab medicine by showing how they can transfer into other scientific studies or more familiar alternative healing traditions such as yoga or color therapy. Credit Hours: 107; Healing with Prayer – 45 Credits; Other Alternative Therapies – 62 Credits