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When effective treatments feel spiritually threatening

Yoga helps my back pain more than anything else but I feel like I am betraying Jesus every time I do sun salutations.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Beneficial practices from other traditions create cognitive dissonance with exclusive religious beliefs.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Faith and physical health — what research shows?”

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