3 Brain Circuits That Prove You Are Never Alone | Dr. Lisa Miller

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Lewis Howes sits down with neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Miller to unpack the hard science behind spiritual connection. After 10 years of MRI studies, Dr. Miller reveals that every human brain is built with three specific circuits designed to receive love, guidance, and the felt sense that you are never alone, and that activating your awakened brain is a choice available to you right now.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.5	We have done 10 years of MRI studies through which we've found very specific circuits in the brain, true to every single human being on Earth.
0:22.9	And they show us that we are built to receive and perceive a relationship to our higher power. Really? Is that higher power
0:28.6	mean whatever that word is for you, God or universe or whatever that is? It's whatever your
0:34.3	word may be as it applies to the deep, loving, guiding presence in life.
0:39.8	Is it our higher selves or our creator?
0:42.8	It is our creator.
0:43.7	Okay.
0:44.6	It is our creator.
0:45.3	Interesting.
0:46.3	And it's not just something bigger than ourself.
0:48.6	Because something bigger than ourself could be something unfortunate, like a cult or an extremist group.
0:53.7	That's bigger than ourself.
0:55.1	This is something loving, guiding, and ever-present.
0:58.5	And the MRIs reveal this? Like, how does it show this?
1:02.7	MRIs show that we are built to perceive a loving, holding, guiding creator.
1:08.3	Wow.
1:08.7	Specifically, there are three circuits in the brain.
1:11.8	We all have these three circuits.
1:13.7	The first is the bonding network, which lets us know that we are loved and held, just as we
1:21.0	were loved and held as children in our parents' arms.
1:25.1	The second is a shift in our attention network from the narrow task
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