THE CONCEPT OF TAHAJUD PRAYER THROUGH PSYCHOTHERAPY APPROACH IN RELATIONSHIP WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH
Abstract
Religion and its practices have been duly implicated in treating not only problems related to medical health, rather, intervening and preventing such problems as well. In the present article, the authors have reviewed the significance of Tahajud prayers in healthcare and mental health in particular. The study uses a qualitative research design in which the data collection using library research approach. The result shows that tahajjud prayer performed at the end of a quiet night can bring calm. While calm it proves to increase immunologic body resistance, reduce the risk of heart disease and increase life expectancy. Conversely, forms of mental stress such as stress and depression make a person vulnerable to various diseases, infections and accelerate the development of cancer cells and increase metastasis in (cancer cell spread). Precious and sincere tahajud prayer influence a healthy mentality especially providing benefits in terms of psychic feelings of calm and serenity, it can also provide great benefits on physical health.
Keywords
psychotherapy, health, tahajjud prayer, psychology