How Prayer Strengthens Your Emotional Health

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Have you ever had a bad day and made a small prayer in your heart and then heard of good news all of a sudden? Or have you had a bad day, and then some miracle happened? These small things that are happening around you because of your prayers tend to make you happy from the inside and make you wonder if miracles are true.

Every person alive has their own set of ups and downs in life, and no time remains the same for everyone. There are times when you feel low and alone and need some motivation as well as strength to continue with life. Asking for a little prayer before something crucial is normal for most of us. However, a deeper connection with prayers can help elevate your morale on a daily basis.

Having a strong connection with God helps individual build strength within their selves and keep them moving in their lives. Not only is it helpful for your spirituality, but it also has a positive impact on your emotional health. People prefer to pray to have healthier lives and tend to make healthy decisions in their everyday routines. 

In this article, we would be discussing how prayers have a positive impact on your emotional health and how you can strengthen your connection and feel gratitude because of your prayers. There are people who have never prayed throughout their lives, but once they know the advantages, they couldn't resist praying for inner peace.

How Prayer Strengthens Your Emotional Health

1.      Offers a Bigger Sense of Purpose

There comes the point in every person's life where they start questioning their purpose and the reason for their existence. Prayers help you find your purpose in life as it brings you closer to the Lord and also observes the realities of this earth.

People often find themselves grateful and helpful towards others after getting closer to God as it helps them achieve inner peace and gratification. Praying regularly helps you center your life, focus on your creation and the purpose you are here for.

People pray for:

·         Vision and clarity

·         Confidence in the Revealed Purpose

·         Direction

·         Wisdom

·         To strengthen their faith

·         Overcome fears

2.      Provides Social Support

Not only is praying helpful in finding purpose and gratification, but it also helps you interact with like-minded people. When you start taking an interest in religion, you get to meet people who guide you in religion as well as other matters in finding inner peace and guidance.

In some religions, such as Islam, there are specific prayer timings in which Muslims gather and pray together. This time help you get together and discuss religious matters with each other and guide them in life. 

Similarly, Christians gather for mass every Sunday, and along with the prayer, the congregation provides an opportunity to connect with like-minded people and share the troubles of life. Most people find lifelong friends through these gatherings.

In this way, you help yourself interact and get exposure to people and learn about how they are practicing prayers and spirituality. This support is essential and helps you cope up with loneliness and a sense of isolation.

When you meet and interact with people who are on the same page as yourself, you find companionship and develop new terms which are beneficial for your emotional health. These social connections are essential in moving forward in life.

3.      Lift the spirit

Activities involved in praying and interaction due to prayers have a positive impact on mental health and emotional well-being. For example, whatever religion you follow when you meet people of your own belief at community halls, you tend to share the same bond, which helps elevate the faith that you have in yourself.

This is helpful in uplifting your spirit and feels grateful towards the people and your Creator. There are various ways people tend to involve themselves in religious activities such as charity, feeding the poor, joining charitable programs, educating the underprivileged, etc. these activities help in strengthening yourself from within.

4.      Help You Cope With Difficulties

There are several challenges and difficulties that we face in our lives, may it be personal, professional, health-related, or anything else. In these tough times, prayers help us have faith and stay positive. These difficulties are a part of life, and your faith helps you acknowledge that.

Sometimes, people tend to suffer from anxiety and depression as they start feeling like there is no hope and their life has lost its purpose, and no matter what they do, they won't be able to get out of it.

However, people who tend to have faith and pray are more hopeful about life and get through difficulties in a better way. When you start praying, you to feel motivated and believe that whatever is happening is happening for a reason and that you have your Creator's support for you.

5.      Stay positive

A positive mindset is essential for a happy life. People who tend to pray and establish a connection with their Lord tend to have a positive outlook on life as compared to those who don't. To look at the brighter side of the picture, you need to have strong faith.

Praying helps you strengthen your beliefs as when you pray for something to happen, and it happens, it helps you believe more in the power of prayers. This hope helps you cope up with problems in life and stay genuinely happy and content from within.

6.      Feeling of Gratitude

Praying helps you count your blessing and be thankful for them. You have a roof to sleep under, a comfy blanket, a fridge full of food, and what not? There are countless things to be grateful for, yet we continue to focus on things that we don't have.

Prayers help you become humble and acknowledge all the blessings that we have around us. This helps us change the perspective from which we look at the world. There are countless things around us that many do not get to have. This wholesome feeling of blessings helps us look at the world in a better way.

How to Benefit from Prayer?

If you do not pray regularly, don't beat yourself up. You can pick up the habit easily in a few simple steps. Firstly, set timings for your prayers to build a habit. You can use apps to set up prayer timings easily. Secondly, join people in prayer to get in the spirit of it. Finally, ask yourself why you are praying? And bolster your prayer with action.

Remember, prayer can give you the strength to carry out the action, but the only action can bring you the results you desire!