The psychological Wisdom of Prayers in Islam was proven in Science and Psychology: The total number of minutes of the 5-daily Prayers in Islam are approximately 15 to 20 minutes, except for Friday, where the noon Prayer lasts for about 1/2 hour, because Muslims spend most of it listening to the Sheikhs (Minister) preaching. The Friday prayer was really made to be a weekly meeting for the local Muslim community to get educated and to stay with the events that are effecting the Muslims. The Preacher, or Sheikh, would choose a topic and talk about it for about 20 minutes, with providing Islamic quotes and references to help strengthen his points and argument. Anyway, the Wisdom of Prayer in Islam is to Create a Spiritual connection between Allah Almighty and the person; To relief the persons mind completely from lifes stress and issues, by taking a mental and physical break. Having said all of that, let us now look at what psychologists have to say about taking a daily 15 to 20 minute mental and physical break: Stress Relief Mindbody Medicine: Stress & Acute Stress Disorder, What you can do to help yourself! by Rod Birney MD The Stress of Our Lives: Even before the terrorist attack of September 11, most of us would say we already had stressful lives. The pace and demands of modern life can feel overwhelming and threatening. Stress is a normal physiologic response to help us meet threat or danger, real or perceived. The stress response sends blood away from our skin and digestive systems and to our muscles and brain mobilizing our energy to attack or move away. One teacher gave me the example of the stress and relaxation response in a deer he observed. The deer smelled danger. His whole body tensed, respiration, heart rate, muscles all poised to flee. The danger passed and the deer began to have twitching in his muscles as he relaxed to resume grazing. The Problem : The stress response becomes problematic when it is chronic, when there is never a time or a place that feels safe for us to relax and resume the normal pattern of our lives. When our nervous and hormonal systems stay in a constant state of hyper vigilance to danger we begin to burn out. Additionally when the stress involves witnessing or experiencing events that involve actual or threatened death, many people may initially experience fear, helplessness, or horror. A common pattern of symptoms may arise. This is called acute stress disorder. Symptoms of acute stress disorder may include: -Dissociative symptoms of numbing or detachment. -Decreased awareness of surroundings, depersonalization, derealization, dissociative amnesia. -The traumatic event may be re-experienced through recurrent images, thoughts, dreams, flashbacks, sense of reliving the experience, or distress upon exposure to reminders of the event. -Avoidance of stimuli that arouse recollections of the trauma, ie thoughts, feelings, conversations, activities, places, people. -Increased arousal, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, -Irritability, poor concentration, hyper vigilance, exaggerated startle response, motor restlessness ( the fight or flight response). When the perceived threat is life threatening, or there are multiple, continual stresses, the stress response is more intense. Many people in our nation and the world today live in continual danger. In the inner city gang violence creates an environment where the danger is constant and real. Over 500 million people in the wold everyday are in the constant stresses of the danger of battle, imprisonment, torture, or starvation.
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