"Don't you believe the science?"
I heard this or "I follow the science.", when we were in the time of the scamdemic.
I would respond that I believe God has given us everything to fight and heal disease. Some call it the immune system but in reality we can not explain exactly what or how exactly the immune system works.
The same can be said about prayer but the effects of prayer have been studied scientifically. Prof. Malt Friese and Michaela Wanke suggests that even non-believers can benefit from prayer.
I was listening to Fr. Williamson, despite me not being Roman Catholic, who is well versed on the conspirators who rule this world and the false narratives they use to keep their power.
I agree with him that it is too late for anything but Jesus to conquer them but we must fight and the best method is speaking the truth and prayer.
A few talks I listened to he would say, "Pray the Rosary daily."
It does not matter if you are Catholic or even a believer. He said to try it for 15 days, at least that is what I recall. Of course, a man like this cannot keep his position in the Catholic Church if he speaks out boldly and truthfully at the Vatican and misguided Popes. Just take a listen to him.
A very articulate man for sure but let's get to the science.
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The authors made use of two experimental paradigms to test the efficacy of prayer in preventing cognitive depletion. The first, called an emotion-suppression task, simply asked participants to watch a funny video but stifle all emotional responses, verbal and non-verbal, to the content. This requires a good amount of cognitive energy to pull off successfully. The second, called a stroop task, asked participants to indicate the ink color of various words flashed to them on a computer screen. The trick is that the words spell the names of various colors that are either consistent or inconsistent with the ink they are to identify. Check it out here. You’ll find that the inconsistent word/ink items are harder to respond to than the consistent items. Researchers have found that after cognitive depletion, this task becomes even harder. So, the authors had an elegant methodological question: will people who pray be able to avoid the depleting effects of emotion suppression and not show a deficit on the stroop task? In other words, will prayer give them the cognitive strength to perform well on both these challenging tasks?**Indeed it did. Participants who were asked to pray about a topic of their choosing for five minutes showed significantly better performance on the stroop task after emotion suppression, compared to participants who were simply asked to think about a topic of their choosing. And this effect held regardless of whether participants identified as religious (70 percent) or not.
Why? The authors tested several possible explanations, but found statistical support for only one: people interpret prayer as a social interaction with God, and social interactions are what give us the cognitive resources necessary to avoid temptation. Past research has found that even brief social interactions with others can promote cognitive functioning, and the same seems to hold true for brief social interactions with deities.
I did not even know what a Hail Mary was at the start of this journey. Now after saying it 53 to 106 times per day I have it memorized.
Hail, Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
I will try in the next day or two to give the detail of the twenty mysteries of the rosary, which are divided into four categories. A mystery is a snapshot in the life of Jesus and Mary and provides an anchor to meditate on while you pray a decade of the rosary. Each mystery, each moment in their lives, holds incredible insights for our own lives today.
I am not trying to preach to anyone as only through the grace of God can I be saved as I have been a terrible sinner in my past.
I just want to share what has worked for me.
