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Oprah's Super Soul

Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.633.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Physician and New York Times best-selling author Larry Dossey discusses the power of prayer, what to pray for and how to pray to get the best results. Larry, who is deeply rooted in the scientific world, explains how he became an influential advocate for the roles of the mind, consciousness and spirituality in healthcare. Larry also talks about his books “Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine” and “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things.” Before Larry’s books were published, only three U.S. medical schools had courses devoted to exploring the role of religious practice and prayer in medicine. Today, nearly 80 medical schools have instituted such courses, many of which use Larry’s works as textbooks.

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

0:07.6

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.1

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.1

now.

0:24.1

I'm really happy today because I get to introduce you Larry Dossie, who is one of the most respected

0:31.8

in his field.

0:32.8

He wrote the book The Healing Words, which I also read, I don't know, almost 15 years ago

0:38.8

for the first time.

0:41.6

And what's so exciting about that is that when you first wrote that book, you had all these

0:45.1

predictions about what would happen.

0:47.3

I think in the back of the book, you talked about predictions about what would happen in

0:51.0

the world to come. And I would say almost all of them have come true.

0:56.8

Oprah looking back at those predictions, I think I was a pretty good prophet.

1:01.4

Yes.

1:02.4

Because, as you say, almost all of those have proved to be true.

1:06.1

When I made those predictions, I thought that I was probably going out on a limb to the

1:11.2

extent that I wouldn't see those come through in my life.

1:14.2

In your lifetime.

1:15.9

But the pace of change since that book came out, which put prayer forward as something

1:22.6

really powerful in the healing response.

1:25.8

Yeah.

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Healing words, the power prayer and the practice of medicine, change the way, the medical

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