Ten Alternative Uses of Rosary Beads

Rosary beads have been used for centuries to create a sense of peace and focus. They have been called a "weapon against the devil" because of their powerful effects at transforming the mind. But this simple cognitive weapon, the rosary, can be used in many different and unexpected ways to win a variety of unexpected battles.

1. Meditation Tool. Use the Rosary Beads as a Tool for Meditation. As an act of the will, the doingness of a rosary meditation can be objectively examined and refined. You can meditate on a problem or image or idea you want clarification on, or simply on the breath.

2. Spiritual Abacus. Use the Rosary Beads to train your awareness to stay on a single spot.

3. Exercise Counter. A single medium-sized affirmation repeated around the beads takes roughly 17 minutes.

4. Sleep Time Sedative. Counting the beads is a wonderful way to fall asleep, especially if you synchronise your breath to them.

5. Doing Affirmations. Pick an important affirmation and do it fifty-five times in a sitting.

6. Pray a Pagan Rosary.

7. Pray a Miracle Rosary.

8. Work through irreconcilable psychoanalytic difficulties.

9. Prepare Rosary Beads for psychotherapy

10. Use Rosary Beads for mantra meditation.