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Abstract
The act of prayer, which is present in all religions, was thoroughly studied through spiritual approaches. The author of this article believes that psychological factors are instrumental to the act of praying and to this primitive impulse that has always been a part of the human nature. Therefore, the prayer, according to the etymology of the word, often seems to be reduced to a simple query requiring a certain response. Hence, raising the question: is it true that the prayer, as suggested by the analysis of the act of praying, can be simply reduced to a request which becomes as such the privileged form of prayers among all others?
This article tackles the problematic through the experience of the practitioner, of his own conception of the prayer, of his motivation behind the act of praying. It also deals with the compulsive spontaneity of "the prayer of request", notably in fringe-scenarios amplifying the belief in the effectiveness of said prayer and the chance of it being answered.