Repetitive Rythm in Prayer

Spontaneous prayers will always come more naturally and intuitivelly for someone like me.
Silent meditation is even more accessible for me, for I spend more time listening for God's voice as communicating with the one who already knows everything I would say to Him.

This post, however, is devoted to the sometimes belittled practice of chanting or murmuring formulaic prayer. Such as the "Lord's Prayer" or the "Magnificat" or recitation of the Psalms, or even the Scriptural "Ave". In each of these recitations, a bridge is formed through the medium of words, a window opened to give the mortal a view of the Divine, link the temporal to the eternal. Through these devotions, heaven touches earth, and earth becomes heaven.

If recited fervently, the way these prayers are designed, they will mentally soothe the tempestuous mind and even emotionally transport the one who speaks them. Before the days of musical and rythmic therapy, the ancients already intuited that man's soul is put at peace by gentle but constant rythm and familiar tones. God knew this also, of course, and He is the supreme poet, artist, musician.

If you want an excellent example of a remarkably enduring and repetitive prayer; one need only look at the practice of the daily recitation of the rosary.