Sunday, January 23, 2011

The power of prayer...?

Allegedly a popular activity amongst deists, prayer has yet to be shown to cause action at a distance.

Helping to describe the "usefulness" of prayer and it's popularity, perhaps praying provides certain benefits for the practitioner, similar to those described in this abstract.


"This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing."

Consider...

OM is a sacred Sanskrit syllable, used in Yogic meditation practice for 6000 years.  
It's the root of the word shal(om) or peace, in Hebrew...

Perhaps that's not coincidence if prayer affects brains in similar ways to "mindfulness meditation"...

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FRISH