Table 2:

The process of emergence of categories and subcategories and primary categories of patients' spiritual healing

Frustration to initial acceptance	Frustration with medical treatment	Discontinuing medical treatment
		Despair (frustration)
	Being in limbo	Confusion after leaving discontinuing medical treatment
		Suicidal thoughts and imminent death
	Seeking non-medical ways	Introduction to prayer writing
		Herbal
	Being selected	Through identification of patient
		Through those familiar with spiritual healing
Disbelief to trust	Initial distrust	Initial total rejection of spiritual healing
		Comparing spiritual healing with other methods
	First impression	Through the healer's spirituality
		Patient's trust in spiritual healing
		The attraction of the meeting place
		Hope created by healer
Evaluation to action	Evaluation	Initial investigation
		Psychosocial evaluation
		Mental evaluation
		Spiritual evaluation
	Prescriptions	Prescription of religious duties by the healer
		Prescription of sin avoidance by the healer
		Prescription of spiritual prayers by the healer
	Action	Distant prayer by the healer
		Performing religious duties by the patient
		Avoidance of sin by the patient
		Performing spiritual prayers by the patient
Doubt to certainty	Confronting doubt	Temporary frustration and doubt
		Overcoming the doubt by the patient
		Saying spiritual prayers
	Second meeting	Reasons for the second meeting
		Spiritual instructions
	Gradual healing	Mental & psychological changes coinciding the healer's praying
		Physical changes coinciding the healer's praying
		Spiritual changes coinciding the healer's praying
		Complete healing