The power of prayer

I'm a firm believer in the power of prayer. I think it's more related to the practice of visualizing what you want - the more you visualize, the more likely you are to make it real. The Olympic athletes do that. The ones who spend time visualizing instead of practicing their moves actually do better than simply practicing. Here's some information. And some more. And some more. I have read scientific studies that actually quantified the benefits of visualization versus physical practice, and of course I can't find them now. Sigh.


I think prayer is very similar, though. It's visualization, applying the power of the mind to have an effect in the physical world. The more minds applying their power together, the more effect there is. I think that prayer is not just a request for a higher power to act, but a statement of a desired goal, which has its own momentum and capacity to create change.


Anyway, what started my train of thought was a poll that showed that 57 percent of those surveyed believed in the power of prayer. I think that's interesting. I don't know how much God, or angels, intervene in response to a prayer, even though I have met people who swore that an entity intervened for them and saved their lives by averting life-threatening injury in an accident, or by effecting miraculous healing from a disease. But I believe that the simple act of prayer helps to focus a person's mind in the direction of changing their reality. If God or angels choose to wield their power alongside, or through, our prayers, then so much the better. ;-)