We are praying all the time

We are praying all the time

As long as

intention and attention

are at work

there is prayer.

Even is the vaguest of claims,

the shortest of attention spans,

most phased

or out of it as we can be

there is still some quality

of both intention and attention

though unjustifiably so.

However the claim

that it is low grade

or ineffectual or unfocused

the stream of consciousness

continues

even if the claim is undisciplined,

unstructured, un-claimable,

spaced, indifferent

or unintelligible

or on the other side

called day-dreaming,

fantasizing, desiring,

conjuring, romanticizing,

or even imagining,

these all play

into the action of prayer.

Even if there is implied

a moral principle of good

to be able to call it praying,

that is a justification at work.

What makes loathing

or vindictive or vengeful

any less of a prayer?

Even if there are claims

based on intensity

or appropriate topic of choice,

that is really cultural

or religious in nature

but not evidentially different

in the way the brain functions

in doing so.

If prayer is composed

of neural elements as operative

derived from

mental and emotional components

interactively at work

and without regard

to the protection

of topic justification

or the quality of the intent

or the amount of attention applied

or the emotional stir

then basically we are always praying

while we are conscious

and possibly beyond

as even when we are asleep

or even unconscious

to a vague degree.

True,

we assign a standard appraisal

to the notion of prayer and praying.

It has its claimed modality

of function.

People could easily claim

that they don’t know how to pray

because they claim

there is a set of rules for praying

and that they are done consciously

to secure its function.

But really

praying may seek towards refinement

but of what?

To be guaranteed an end result?

For reasons of personal experience?

The comparative quality

of the stream of consciousness?

We are all contributing consciousness

to something ongoing

even if it is vague and ambient

or apparently dispersive

by its nature.

Just as we all weigh,

we all pray.

We all might,

at one point or another,

have prayed to be weightless

but no matter

how successful our prayer

or how disguised by topic

or by the appropriateness

of our apparent behavior,

neurologically,

we all still pray.