Unlocking Your Brain's Spiritual Potential for Inner Peace | Dr. Lisa Miller

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0:38Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

0:50What do the MRIs say from a brain that is connected to God or has a spiritual practice versus a brain that doesn't have a spiritual practice. We have charted this very precisely. And the first thing that everyone needs to know is that we are all capable of awakening. Every brain is built to awaken. Nobody's left out. But it's a choice. It is a choice and it is a practice. And what are the brains that are spiritually connected versus a lack of spiritual connection? A spiritually connected brain is compared to one that has yet to do the work. It has three components. The first is that just as we are loved and held as children in our parents' or grandparents' arms, the bonding network comes up online and we can feel that we are loved and held.

1:41So, Lewis, that's not a belief. Our brain perceives. It feels it. It feels it because we are detecting something real. Interesting. It's not a brain in the box that made up, isn't it nice to feel love? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We are. It believes it is loved and held. The brain perceives transcendent love. Wow. So we're moving here from the 20th century view of the brain that makes thoughts, like the brain in the box, to the emerging view of the brain that is like an antenna that receives thoughts or inspiration or transcendent presence. So when we receive God's presence as incarnate beings, the bonding network comes up online.

2:25And we watch it through the fMRI that tracks blood flow. We watch the bonding network literally engage as we experience and receive God's love. And what happens when the bonding network engages in the brain? What happens to the body? Ah, it's, well, we are at peace. We have less stress. Cortisol goes down. There's a whole host of downstream problems from dysregulated cortisol, dysregulated diurnal patterns of cortisol. So when we sustain a relationship with God through practice, through prayer, through meditation, through how we treat each other, as you just described, the choice of godly relationships.

3:06Yeah. We literally host and welcome, you know, God chooses when God shows up, that we can invite and welcome God. And when we feel God's presence, when God touches us, the bonding network comes up online as we are incarnate and shows that we are loved and held. The second circuit that we all have is that there's multiple forms of attention. There's the bowling alley attention, which is narrow focus, narrow focus. And there's times for that, right? We need that discipline, but the bowling alley alone is insufficient. I've got to have it. I've got to get that job. I'm going to do A plus B plus C to close that deal.

3:52That is not an accurate map onto the structure of reality. Because life is full of surprises and hard left turns. and we have another attention network. There's another system of awareness, which is not our dorsal attention, but our ventral attention where the floodlights come on and the world becomes a lot bigger and brighter. And a new direction pops. And that allows us to receive guidance. What's that step called? So we are loved and held as we all have a bonding network and we are guided. We are built to receive divine guidance. We are built to perceive direction from the universe. Loved and held guided.

4:41And the third circuit, the third component of the awakened brain that we're all built with ready to go is that you, Lewis, are in your chair, and I'm over here in mine. And we also have friends in New York and Cincinnati and London and Des Moines, right? We are separate beings. And at the same time, we're part of this great oneness. Yes. The brain is built to receive and perceive separateness and oneness. Wow. The parietal region puts in and out hard boundaries. As blood flows through the parietal region, we see that, okay, I have my zipped up bio body suit, and we're all wonderfully diverse, and we live in different chairs.

5:22And at the same time, we're part of one family of life. We're part of one unit of consciousness. That capacity allows us to know we're never alone. So is that oneness or what is that? That is the oneness. So if you add up all three circuits that run together, they don't run separately. We are loved and held. We are guided. And we are never alone. That awakened brain is yours. It is there for everyone. So everyone has that in us, but we need to be practicing and believing it in order to experience it. Yes.

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