Benefits of prayers and wisdom of multiple prayers daily
1. Justification of the “Benefits of prayers and wisdom of multiple prayers daily” in comparison to other Religions and Philosophies. Presented by: Team Ansar
Christianity have daily supplications at the individual’s own time. They also have seasonal prayers called; advent, Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. Obligation imposed by the Church, are attendance at Mass, observance of Sundays and feast-days. The practice of the Church, devoutly followed by the faithful, is to begin and end the day with prayer; and though morning and evening prayer is not of strict obligation. [1] Vocal Prayer Prayer may be classified as vocal or mental, private or public. In vocal prayer some outward action, usually verbal expression, accompanies the internal act implied in every form of prayer. This external action not only helps to keep us attentive to the prayer, but it also adds to its intensity.
Orthodox Judaism regards halakha (Jewish law) as requiring Jewish men to pray three times daily and four times daily on the Sabbath and most Jewish holidays, and five times on Yom Kippur. Orthodox Jewish women are required to pray at least daily, with no specific time requirement, but the system of multiple daily prayer services is regarded as optional. [1] Many Jews sway their body back and forth during prayer. This practice (referred to as shoklen in Yiddish) is not mandatory.
The most famous study was done in 1986 by Dr. Randolph Byrd, then a cardiologist in San Francisco. He divided into two groups all patients (400 total) admitted to the coronary care unit at San Francisco General Hospital over a period of ten months. Group One was assigned to a variety of prayer teams thoughout the United States, who prayed for them each day. Group Two was not assigned any prayer team. William S. Harris of St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., and colleagues published similar results in 1999 from a study involving nearly 1,000 heart patients, about half of whom were prayed for without their knowledge.
Eastern religion for the most part discards worship and places devotional emphasis on the practice of meditation alongside scriptural study. [2] Consequently, prayer is seen as a form of meditation or an adjunct practice to meditation. [2]
Buddhism Beliefs In the earliest Buddhist tradition, prayer plays only an ancillary role. It is largely a ritual expression of wishes for success in the practice and in helping all beings. [1] Practice Buddha emphasized the primacy of individual practice and experience. [2] Obligation Buddha said that supplication to gods or deities was not necessary Hinduism Philosophical teachings and traditions According to Swami Vivekananda, "the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times" constitutes the sacred Hindu texts.
Forms of meditation devoid of mystical content have been developed in the west as a way of promoting physical and mental well being
Jacobson's Progressive Muscle Relaxation was developed by American physician Edmund Jacobson in the early 1920s. Jacobson argued that since muscular tension accompanies anxiety, one can reduce anxiety by learning how to relax the muscular tension. Autogenic training was developed by the German psychiatrist Johannes Schultz in 1932. Schultz emphasized parallels to techniques in yoga and meditation; however, autogenic training is devoid of any mysticism. Biofeedback has been tried by many researchers since the 1950s as a way to enter deeper states of mind. Natural Stress Relief is a form of meditation which uses a silent mantra. Acem Meditation has been developed in the Scandinavian countries since 1966. It is non-religious technique with no requirement for change of lifestyle or adaption to any system of belief.
The Prayer is the best and most noble of deeds. It is the link between the believer and his Lord. Through the Prayer, the slave communicates with his Lord five times a day. Emphasized many times in Quran and Sunnah The Prayer has a great status in Islam. It is the spinal cord of the religion, without which the religion itself cannot be established. [1] [1] “The head of the matter is Islam, its spinal cord is the prayer, and its highest pinnacle is ‘Jihaad’ in the way of Allaah.” [Muslim]