When I find myself in intense states of consciousness, prayer becomes a positive coping tool.
Praying is a form of absorption which might decrease ego, much like meditation and psychedelics. I pray a lot. Say prayers when I make a drink, pray to my herbs etc. Generally things for like peace, kindness, love, compassion etc
Prayer is an expression of one’s spirituality with multidimensional aspects of connectedness [1]. Spirituality promotes a sense of making meaning of one’s lived experience which can be achieved through dimensions of connectedness transpersonally (to God or other higher power), intrapersonally (within oneself), and interpersonally (to others and the environment)
These dimensions of connectedness enable the individual to transcend an everyday lived experience to an existence that is meaningful and empowered. Thus, prayer is a religious practice with spiritual dimensions that facilitates individual transcendence beyond a stressful situation to some level of well-being.
Transpersonal connectedness promotes individual perceptions of the existence of an all-powerful entity with whom they have access to negotiate stressful life events. In particular, prayers are a vehicle for the expression of needs but also the promotion of a self-awareness that is empowering when confronted with chronic disease that is potentially debilitating and life-threatening.
Prayer also has a reciprocal nature that promotes a connectedness to others. Through prayer, people were connected to others which resulted in feelings of caring, valued and loved, and belonging to a larger community of individuals with shared experiences.
One can use prayer for strength to endure, healing, gratitude, and protection during illness and alleviate psychological distress
Other precipitants to religious experience include meditation, prayer, music, dance, extended exercise or exertion, isolation, extreme physical conditions, fasting, medical illness, near death experiences, psychedelics, and brain injuries. In different ways all the extraordinary experiences involve changes in the self-identity, the sense of “I”, and some a mingling of the states of consciousness [2]
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