Praying can calm your spirit down. It can help you relax, to meditate, to get in the right form of mindset. It is about perspective, insight, reflection, and attitude, as you pray. It can be therapy unto oneself. You don't have to believe in a god to talk to yourself in the form of a prayer. You can pray to God. You can pray to the man on the moon, I don't care. God may or may not be real. But praying works. Praying helps people. Period.