Prayer

https://aaagnostica.org/2018/08/12/the-talking-cure-in-recovery/

Does this explain the benefit of prayer?

Ethics, morals and values have no intrinsic values. Those are always subjective and adaptive.  We do not have mind independence, as much of what we know was learned from others. Our mind is a reflection of the culture we grew up in, well, at least until we start to clean up out beliefs, and even then, it is a reflection of what we read and who we relate to.