[Futurism.com says that meditation can shape brains and increase brain plasticity and fit](https://futurism.com/you-have-power-physically-reshape-brain/). Can we say that praying the Catholic rosary is a kind of meditation and does this prayer have all the benefits of meditation?

The common practice of the rosary is to say five decades a day each containing an *Our Father* and ten *Hail Marys* keeping one's place with a looped string of beads. All Catholics know these prayers by heart and can repeat them almost automatically, so thoughts are directed towards some inner prayer and talk with God during its recital. 

Is this a kind of meditation and does it enhance brain plasticity?