My reasoning for the popularity of prayer beads might not be mainstream. First, I believe tactile prayer is pleasing. Our hands like to be busy and fingers touching each bead connect our body ...

Prayer beads can be used by many religions ... Now close your eyes, hold your mala in your hands, Verger said, and infuse it with love.

Islam uses prayer beads called “misbaha,” sometimes called ... was buried with a rosary entwined in her hands. Asked one day about the apparitions, she is said by biographers to have ...

Creating these sets is a quiet form of meditative prayer for me ... I imagine a connection from the tendons of my hands to theirs. I think of the beads’ path across continents, rough seas ...

The ring is superior to prayer beads, she said, because it “is faster and it stays on your hand.” Throughout the day, each time she recites, she says, she presses a silver button on the ring ...

Villagers from Mangali took up this craft 60 years ago Prayer beads produced at Mangali, a village near Hisar in Haryana, are supplied across the country and the world for use by people from ...

We’re exhausted, over-stimulated, and over-emoted. It could be the let down from the seasonal celebrations of Thanksgiving, various religious holidays and the arrival of 2025. We’ve scurried ...