People can follow a simple life of mediation and prayer {asceticism}, with few goods and few personal pleasures.
People can have sudden changes {conversion, religion}| in behavior from immoral to moral or from passive acceptance of faith to active spiritual life. Beliefs exchange for new beliefs. People can experience strong religious feelings {religious ecstasy, conversion} and change spiritual orientation.
causes
Conversion happens after religious and psychological preparation. Conversion happens after exhaustion or frustration. Conversion ends tension and conflict. Conversion can accompany belief in people's sinfulness, personal sense of sin, need for removing sin, religious faith, and heightened emotion.
results
People feel energy, joy, peace, and calmness. Conversion is passionate. Conversion surrenders self to outside control or direction. No single trait distinguishes converted people from others.
Prayers {prayer}| can be petitions, sin confessions, communions, or meditations.
People can have a feeling of receiving insight from God or angels {revelation, psychology}.
Religion prohibits behaviors {sin, religion}|, such as divorce, blasphemy, usury, drinking alcohol, gambling, eating certain foods, revenge, swearing, taking God in vain, and worshipping idols. Religion often prohibits expressing bodily desires for food or sex. Religion often discourages feeling pride and loving material things, including people. Religion denounces failure to give alms or contribute money. Main sins {deadly sins} {seven deadly sins} are lust, greed, pride, envy, sloth, wrath, and gluttony.
Religious feeling can manifest as guttural syllables sounding like speech {speaking in tongues}|, trembling, writhing, or religious possession.
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