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What is a place where religious people live and dedicate their lives to prayer and meditation?
In the Catholic and Orthodox versions of Christianity the people would go to and join a monastery to dedicate their lives to prayer and meditation.
In the Protestant version people go to school to study to become pastors and teachers to devote themselves to God Word and His work.
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Why do religious people play such importance on prayer as a spiritual activity?
Religious people think that prayer has actual, tangible results which will help them or someone else. As prayer is a form of meditation, it can also be relaxing. However, studies show that prayer leads to no tangible results.
What is an anchorite?
An anchorite is a person who chooses a life of extreme isolation and solitude for religious purposes, often living in a small enclosed space attached to a church. They dedicate themselves to prayer, meditation, and self-denial, seeking spiritual growth through their seclusion from the world.
What is the significance of prayer hands behind the back in certain cultural or religious practices?
In certain cultural or religious practices, prayer hands behind the back symbolize humility, respect, and submission to a higher power. This gesture is often used as a sign of reverence and devotion during prayer or meditation.
What is meditational prayer?
Different religions understand meditation prayer in different ways. But meditation is silence and contemplation, and prayer is communicating with God. When you put them both together, meditation prayer is communicating with God not through hymns, chanting and actions, it is praying to God in silence. It is introspecting and becoming conscious of God's Divine presence within. God lives in the temple of our heart and meditation prayer is trying to talk to that God that is within, not the God that is in a temple or church or somewhere far away. Therefore meditation prayer is the most effective form of prayer. It is prayer that not only talks to God but also listens to God. Then we feel the presence of the Divine, we become conscious of the Divine within us.
What is spiritual cleansing?
Spiritual cleansing is a religious view that is said to help clean the spirit of any negativity and bad karma. This can be done through meditation or prayer.
What is another name for Mental prayer?
Meditation
What ways do religious believer help people in need?
Religious believers pray and prayer gives people hope.
Why is it that prayer so vital for you and your ministry?
Prayer is nothing more than a form of meditation. You sit in silence, or guided prayer, clear your mind, concentrate on your god, and hope to get divine answers. Prayer, same as meditation, is a spiritual cleansing.
What has the author Meredith Ann Puryear written?
Meredith Ann Puryear has written: 'Healing through meditation & prayer' -- subject(s): Meditation, Prayer, Spiritual healing
What has the author John Maine written?
John Main has written: 'The present Christ' -- subject(s): Contemplation 'Monastery without walls' -- subject(s): Benedictines, Church renewal, Monastic and religious life, Spiritual life 'Community of love' 'Present Christ, The' 'Maranatha - El Camino de La Meditacion' 'Christian Meditation, Prayer in the Tradition of John Cassian' 'Door to Silence' 'The hunger for prayer' 'Thep resent Christ' -- subject(s): Meditation 'Word Made Flesh' 'The way of unknowing' -- subject(s): Contemplation, Spiritual life, Catholic Church 'Religious Chastity' 'The other-centeredness of Mary' 'Awakening (Medio Media)' 'Christian Meditation' 'Death' 'The hunger for prayer' -- subject(s): Religion, Meditation, Prayer, Universities and colleges, Church and college 'The Heart of Creation' -- subject(s): Meditation 'Monastic prayer and modern man' 'John Main (The Modern Spirituality Series)' 'Talks on meditation' 'Moment of Christ' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Doctrines, Meditation, Spiritual life
What is another name for prayer cushions?
Another name for prayer cushions is "meditation cushions" or "zafu".
What is a name for a prayer cushion?
Hassock
