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All About Ritual (#191)

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The Role of Ritual in Stress

If faith is embodied and then rituals engage our bodies, we're starting to understand maybe at a scientific level why religion would involve rituals. There are all kinds of physiological experiences that people have when they engage in rituals. One of the things it does is I mean, it taps into our endorphins,. It taps into dopamine rituals help with emotion regulation. And so that's kind of an embodied process which helps sort of calm and distress people.

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