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Why meditation might work better than prayer

I started meditating instead of praying six months ago and my anxiety actually got better, which makes me wonder if prayer was just keeping me dependent on something outside myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The shift from external petition to internal practice challenges fundamental assumptions about agency and spiritual source.

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“Where Are You with Prayer — does it work? what the evidence shows?”

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