Spiritual Rituals and Stress Relief

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The research proposal gives an insight on whether prayer and spiritual rituals can help in relieving stress. The paper gives an overview of the subject and proposes the following research: To examine the relationship between religious rituals, like meditation and prayer, and stress. To analyze the effectiveness of such rituals in alleviating stress.
To examine the reasons for any positive effects of these rituals in providing stress relief. To discover whether practicing spiritual rituals assists in the prevention of stress, and in conclusion, to explore the medical perspective on the issue, to see if spiritual rituals do indeed prevent stress.

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Introduction
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Research Questions
Significance of Study
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"They seek for help from a Supreme Being and they somehow know that He will help them. Either one should accept the existence of this Supreme Being helping them directly, as the basis of spirituality or religiousness requires a person to blindly believe in and have faith in this Supreme Being, or that there is some relation between this extreme faith and conviction and the subsequent positive effects it brings out in an individual. In the counseling field it was only till recently that attention was given to spirituality as being one of the important components in counselor training programs and counseling relationships (Ingersoll, p.5)."

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