Myss defies gravity by bringing back the good old prayer

Browsing through Barnes and Noble this morning  I came across Carolyn Myss' latest book: Defy Gravity.

The book builds on her previous work with Teresa De Avila. Caroline had three seizures during the year she was writing that book, Entering the Castle, which is also what happened to Teresa as she traveled the different rooms of the interior castle, or spirit  (Teresa De Avila wrote the book The Interior Castle in 1577, not exactly a good time for a woman to be talking spirit).

Anyway, I always liked Caroline, she has a very definite and down to earth tone.  In this book she talks about the power of prayer in order to heal  and she goes over some spontaneous healing that happened at her talks since the time she wrote Entering the Castle.

I believe in prayer, it has saved me more than once, and I feel it is one of the tools our society sadly lacks.  Of course she is not talking about praying in a wish-washy mode,  she clearly warns:

"...but you must simultaneously do what is called from within, that is, forgive the past, accept what cannot be changed, relinquish any personal agenda for how your healing should unfold, and be present to your life as it is right now"

She also asks that when required we visit a doctor.

The issue of prayer keeps on appearing for me.  I remember a time when I could not let go of something that I perceived as very important to me, and that in retrospect it was not.  Reading the book Illuminata, by Marianne Williamson, helped me let go.  In it, she has a collection of prayers, for different things, some very concrete, like:
For when we have been betrayed
for sexual violation
for myself
for achievement
for the world

Do you pray?  do you write your own prayers? do they help?