Praying five times a day encourages mindfulness: self-remembrance and self-observation from moment to moment.
Prayer elevates the heart and promotes physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being. Those who live a life of devotion have more certainty, health, and confidence in divinity.
The five canonical prayers relate to the position of the Sun, the solar logos, within the sky. For a deeper understanding of how the astral Sun portends spiritual levels of being, see
Striving.
Ablution promotes physical hygiene. More important is the esoteric ablution (transmutation) which promotes psychological hygiene.