When difficult times come, many people seek protection and help in faith and prayers. Of course, from the point of view of science, the power of prayer is not proved by anything, but many believers have no doubt at all about its effect.
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From the point of view of biorhythmology and the theory of sound vibrations when reading a prayer, the sound vibrations formed by the words of a prayer coincide with the vibrations of the biorhythms of the human body. Reading a prayer helps even out biorhythm disturbances. Thus, prayer can truly heal, soothe, and tune into positive thoughts. In addition, for a believer, the very fact of communicating with God through prayer sets up a special, spiritual mood.
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Prayers are different. In classical prayers, a person asks for the sending of “common” graces, in special prayers he asks for one thing. The meaning of specific prayers consists not only in creating healing biorhythms, but also in a certain kind of self-hypnosis, creating your own program that directs the subconscious to achieve a specific goal. As a result of such a prayer, the behavior of the believer changes accordingly, and an attitude is set to achieve a specific result.
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Many prayers, according to religious canons, require the observance of certain rituals, strictly prescribed manipulations. These actions are designed to strengthen the faith of a religious person in the fact that with the mandatory observance of all prescribed actions, the achievement of the result will accelerate. In other words, the prescribed manipulations reinforce the effect of the setting put by prayer into the human subconscious.
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From a psychological point of view, prayer helps to cope with a feeling of loneliness, allows you not to forget about the presence of God in the life of a believer. Thanksgiving prayer helps to see only good from everything around, to develop an optimistic outlook on life, to overcome depression. A conversation with God about his problems forces the believer to first understand them, to reconcile with their existence. After all, the denial of existing problems, as a way of dealing with them, only moves a person away from their solution.
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During prayer, the believer reveals himself to God, his personality appears before him in the form as it is. Without any attempt to pretend, without effort, to look better than it really is, discarding tricks and revealing oneself. In this state, the worshiper can be on his own, try to understand his internal psychological problems, and discover the prospects for personal and spiritual growth.
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For Orthodox Christians, prayer is an analogue of meditation, a state of focus on one thing. St. John Climacus recommends: choose a prayer, stand before God, realize where you are and what you are doing, and begin to carefully read the words of the prayer. As soon as thoughts begin to wander, begin to pray with those words that the last read carefully. It doesn’t matter how many times you have to read the prayer: three times, ten, twenty or fifty. Try to focus on words so that you can pray soberly, seriously, and reverently. That is, so that in prayer to put all your consciousness, all your soul and all mindfulness.