Recently while meditating on prayer I stumbled onto what I believe is an unintended benefit of prayer.
For many people prayer is a duty. We often use prayer to get God to do what we want.
“Give me, give me”, could be a description of our prayer lives.
Yes, through prayer we offer God our thanksgiving, make known our requests and should use prayer to seek forgiveness for our daily transgressions.
But an unintended benefit to regular prayer times must be better health.
Stress may not be the number one cause of death, but stress may be weakening our immune systems and trigger many modern-day illnesses.
Simple and sincere prayer with an element of meditation definitely has health benefits.
After a few minutes of prayer stress levels automatically decrease.
Medicine may treat the symptoms of modern-ay ailments but prayer deals with the root cause of most 21st century illnesses – stress.
A definite benefit of prayer and meditation is better health.
