Develop the powers of self control. Tame the monkey mind. Prayers should not be requests, at most not for more than immediate necessities, eg our daily food, and for help with our ability to forgive others and letting go. Meditation discipline is an example of ancient guy mental fitness ... it's not about the monkey mind demanding that we do something or stay busy for the sake of staying too busy to think. Mental fitness is about being ready and able to think about massively weighty things that the merely busy cannot begin to contemplate.