Throughout her extensive career in health care, Dr. Margaret M. Rappaport has witnessed a good and necessary shift in attitudes and understandings about how to achieve and maintain lasting health and wellness through the practice of mindfulness.

Today, more than ever, people are woefully disconnected and out of touch with their spirits, creating damaging rifts between body and soul. In Body Prayer, Dr. Rappaport educates readers about the key roles meditation and prayer play in living better and longer lives.

Using beautiful anatomical illustrations of the complex...