I am grateful for the power of prayer in my life because my mind can play tricks on me without me realizing it. Prayer often brings this to my attention!
I have a health condition. It is not life-threatening or overly serious. But it does need monitoring and medication to keep it under control. Since my medication was running out, I made an appointment with my new doctor who barely knows me to get a refill. But I truly felt I needed an increase in my current dosage and told the doctor this. After a series of blood tests, he determined that not only did I not merit an increase, but he wanted my dosage decreased. Needless to say, I had no desire to reduce my medication nor to disrupt my quality of life.
So I sought direction and answers, knowing that Spirit within would guide me. 
In a Unity booklet, ‘When Someone You Love Needs Healing, ‘ I found the following passage that spoke to me:
When illness or injury occurs in the life of a friend or loved one, my first inclination is to turn to prayer. One of the earliest Unity writers, a doctor names H. Emilie Cady, said one should go first to God in Payer for healing, then to man as God directs. This thought reminds me that there is often something practical I can do for a loved one as I am guided to support their healing process..
Although this is about praying for another, I took to heart that, yes, more directed prayer was the first step to take.
While in prayer about this, I realized I need to take a look at my current lifestyle. It was then that I realized that I had gone through a period of high stress. This, I decided, may have increased my vulnerability, making me feel like my symptoms were worse than they were. I examined my diet and lifestyle to find ways to improve them, thus impacting my symptoms.
A friend told me that it appeared that I was making my life about my medical condition. Her observations were a red flag for me. I was NOT my condition!
Just before writing this story, I read an article by David Ault in the Science of Mind Magazine:
What the thought doesn’t know is that the moment is over. And so it campaigns. It builds systems of prevention and protection and strategy. It wears the body down keeping watch for a danger no longer present. It stores itself not in the tissues, but in the mind’s insistence on being right about what it learned.
By following my intuition from prayer, my symptoms decreased, I began sleeping better, and the doctor refilled my current prescription. What a demonstration of the power of prayer in my life!