Article January 30, 2012 Issue

The benefits of habitual prayer

By Carlos A. Machado

Have you ever thought about how much thinking goes on in your average day? Consider this:

If you drove to work or school today, you probably can’t name all the decisions that it took to make the drive successfully—all the turn signals, blind-spot checks, accelerations, and even hitting the brake at varying degrees of pressure, all happening simultaneously to accomplish specific and complex maneuvers. In fact, if this drive is part of a daily routine, you may often make it from one place to the other without really having noticed the drive itself—or, as my friends have put it, “without even thinking.”

But wait—we can’t drive without thinking! The fact is that we do think about every decision we make. We just don’t always give much attention to the ones that have become “second nature.”

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