The Mystical Power of Prayer: Why You Should Pray Every Day

Last Updated on June 15, 2025 by The Unbounded Thinker

The one effect of prayer I am sure about is that it loosens the body’s grip on the soul. I became certain of this impact after I realized that praying any time from 3:00 to 5:00 a.m. highly increases my chances of having an out-of-body experience.

Initially, this impact of prayer made me avoid nightly prayers as I was scared of the strange out-of-body experiences. But after studying out-of-body experiences for a while and discovering that they help me understand the true nature of reality, I became obsessed with them. 

By the way, my first out-of-body experience mainly occurred as a result of celibacy and intermittent fasting. Nowadays, I have random out-of-body experiences without embracing these ascetic practices.

But recently, I discovered that I can easily trigger an out-of-body experience through petitionary, thanksgiving, or any form of sincere prayer. I have noticed that when I pray, an out-of-body experience comes so suddenly that I have no time to resist it. It feels as if something forcefully pulls me out of my body.

Now I am certain that prayer loosens the body’s grip on the soul because when I pray, my soul easily leaves the body.

This impact of prayer is so powerful because it frees the soul from the body’s limitations. When a soul chooses to experience reality through a body, it passes through the veil of forgetfulness, which makes it forget its divine origin.

The soul, which was able to experience the past, present, and future as now, starts experiencing linear time where the past and future are separate. With this separation, the soul becomes vulnerable to anxiety, regret, and fear.

The soul, which once lived in pure oneness with all things, becomes compressed into a single egoic identity. It starts to believe that it is a name, a gender, a body, or a nationality. This illusion of separateness births the need to compete and the desire to prove itself. From wholeness, the soul falls into fragmentation.

The soul, which once moved freely between realms and dimensions, becomes locked into physicality and forgets that the higher realms are its true home. It also forgets its multidimensional nature. It begins to believe it is the body and it becomes obsessed with bodily desires, which trap it deeper in the physical illusion, resulting in the misconception that physical reality is the absolute reality.

Such effects of the body on the soul show why loosening the body’s grip makes prayer a powerful tool. The body, while necessary for physical experience, is like a prison that traps the soul within the illusions of time, ego, and separation. It locks divine consciousness into a limited perspective, making the soul forget its eternal origin and true divine nature.

But when prayer begins to weaken this grip, you – the soul – start remembering who you truly are and begin to see that physical reality is an illusion.

You then find it easier to detach from physical reality. This detachment makes it difficult for you to stay trapped in prolonged states of worry, fear, anxiety, grief, or any other negative emotion. You begin to realize that these states belong to the body and the egoic mind and not to your true nature. It starts to sink into your awareness that life on Earth is only a reflection of higher realms, which are your true home.

The more you pray, the more the body loses control over you. Sickness stops becoming stressful because you start to understand that it only affects the body, not the real you. Bodily desires also lose their grip. You no longer crave temporary pleasures as you once did because your attention is turning inward toward peace, insight, and spiritual elevation. Your priorities shift naturally. You stop striving to fulfill your bodily desires as you become a soul rising above illusion.

You become anchored in higher awareness, even while functioning through the body. You – the soul – awaken from the veil of forgetfulness and become a conscious inhabitant of the body rather than its prisoner.

This is the mystical power of prayer. It pulls the soul upward, back into remembrance. It causes a vibrational shift that aligns the soul with the higher frequencies of its origin. It dissolves the illusion of separateness and awakens the ancient memory that lies buried beneath the flesh.

Ancient mystics, yogis, priests, saints, and other spiritual masters knew about this mystical power of prayer. They knew that it didn’t matter whether their prayer requests were answered or not. What mattered most to them was the ability of prayer to awaken the soul by raising it above bodily limitations, enabling them to live from a place of spiritual clarity, wisdom, detachment, and freedom rather than fear, stress, and anxiety.

I used to wonder why some people are so devoted to prayer, even when their lives seem filled with struggle or lack. I wondered why they remain faithful to a practice that did not appear to improve their life.

But now I understand. Although such people may not consciously realize that prayer loosens the body’s grip on the soul, they feel more connected to something beyond the material world.

They also experience a stillness within them that makes daily burdens feel less suffocating. Their problems may remain, but their relationship to those problems changes. The earthly illusion loses its grip on them, and life no longer feels like a constant struggle as they allow life to flow at its own pace. Without knowing it, they are experiencing the soul’s gentle awakening.

Like them, we have to deeply embrace prayer even if sometimes we might not get what we ask for. But unlike them, we should be aware of its mystical power, which is its impact on the soul. We should stop approaching prayer as a religious or spiritual task. Instead, we should see it as a spiritual key that changes our vibrational frequency, disconnects us from the body, and allows us to directly experience our true nature.