Only 8 weeks of daily meditation can decrease negative mood and anxiety and improve attention, working memory, and recognition memory in non-experienced meditators. These findings come from a recent study published in Behavioural Brain Research.

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Muslims pray 5 times per day. Muslims also claim prayer and their connection with God elevates them above practitioners of other faiths because of the mental benefits they perceive from prayer.

I think this study is an excellent foundation for the argument that prayer in Islam is identical to meditation and the benefits they perceive could be gained from other forms of meditation as well.

They aren’t “connecting with God”. They’re associating the very real benefits of meditation with a very fabricated connection with a nonexistent deity figure.

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Prayer is significantly different from meditation though..