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I think the aspects of prayer that are healing and the aspects of meditation that are healing probably have some degree of overlap, so I will roughly consider them the same or at least similar for the sake of this conversation

Can you share the processes/techniques that you use?   This is an opportunity to be descriptive so feel free to rant if you are so inspired.

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Half-lotus, deep breaths until I get bored and wonder how long I've been at it, which effectively kills the whole experience. If I meditate in the morning, I'll put on some Gregorian Chants or possibly Buddha Bar to drown out the noise outside my room.

But more importantly, how do  you do it?

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These days, most of my meditation comes in the form of song, and working with a metronome.  

I've spent a lot of time working with different sitting meditation techniques, but I seems to me that once the basic principles are grasped that the practice can be cultivated in many different daily activities.

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in the same way you tell your heart to pump, your lungs to breathe, and your food to digest

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I can say we all either talk to ourselves, pray, or attempt to switch betweeen the two.
I stopped self talk and entered permanant prayer.

these methods are in all probility, possibly simmilar thought proceses.

I find that prayer always looks to the bigger "not just a symbolised picture" by OUR senses and emotions. And thoughts in and of my self alone "self speculating" is all doubtfull nonsense "to me". Its mind was like a tome to the tomb.

memory and planning are usefull, while being alive here is invaluble.