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At the end of the his music, he always wrote "Soli Deo gloria" (Glory to God alone) and in the beginning, "Lord help." Therefore, you can pray during Bach's music because the music itself is a prayer. You could, then, consider Bach's music a conversation between man and God. How do you deal with pain? Worship is the best solace."
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Prayer is a considered a form of medicine, and it falls into the complimentary, alternative category. It has similar benefits to meditation. Praying increases release of dopamine. (As a side note, dopamine plays important roles in executive function, motor control, motivation, arousal, reinforcement, and reward through signaling cascades that are exerted via binding to dopaminergic receptors at the projections found in the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area, and arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus of the human brain.) Prayer can calm your nervous system, shutting down your fight or flight response. It can make you less reactive to negative emotions and less angry. Prayer elicits the relaxation response, which lowers blood pressure and other factors heightened by stress. It also releases control to something greater than oneself through secondary control, which can reduce the stress of needing to be in charge. Prayer is a go to habit for stress management because it can improve release of testosterone and related androgen hormones such as DHEA. When we intently and consistently pray, we increase the blood flow to our frontal lobes and to our anterior cingulate, which causes the activity in the emotional centers of our brain to decrease. That helps us develop the capacity to make responses that maintain and even sense of peace.
There is definitely skepticism out there about the healing power of prayer, but at the end of the day when your soul needs respite few words may make a difference.
https://x.com/DrKatLindley/status/1707582456965042204

Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf - Certainly did not expect a million views but maybe this resonated. I do not agree that this post is sexist,which some responses claim. I am the feminist I have always been. But I’ve also always understood that humans are complicated.
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Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf
Okay, I’ll just say it. I’ve seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted. White liberal women are disproportionately sexually frustrated. Policing others as in the pandemic was an outlet for them, but it was not nearly enough. The smiles you see on their faces now say it all: white women long for all out combat with ICE - who tend to be strong, physically confident, masculine men - because the conflict is a form of physical release for them. They long for actual kinetic battle and it will get even uglier.
https://x.com/naomirwolf/status/2012606856938529079

Dr. Tamitha Skov @TamithaSkov - Northern lights in Poland look promising, despite the northward pointing magnetic field. This storm is being driven by its speed and the transverse field (By). Shows will continue for a while yet!
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