(December 21, 2010 at 3:30 am)theVOID Wrote: I'm not saying they do, I am saying that prayer and meditation work through the same mechanism regardless of the intention the person has for the prayer or meditation, they are both simply cases of stress relief - Clearing your head and sharing your burdens both work for the same reason - Stress relief.
I don't think prayer is stress relief in the same way as meditation. I think they invoke different mechanisms.