344: This is your brain on spirituality | Lisa Miller, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Lisa Miller, Ph.D.: “People who [have] a spiritual response to suffering show entirely different brains.” Miller, an award-winning researcher in spirituality and psychology, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how a sense of spirituality can bolster your mental health, plus: - How to flex your spiritual muscles - How to strike a balance between surrender and ambition - How your parents significantly shape your spiritual life - How to get out of your head & actually lead with the heart - How to identify synchronicities in your life Referenced in the episode: - Miller's book, The Awakened Brain. - Miller's MRI findings on spirituality & depression. - Suniya S. Luthar, Ph.D.'s research on depressive feelings & higher resource communities. Don't forget to use the code SLEEP25 for 25% off your first month subscription of mbg's best-selling sleep support+ supplement. Our science-backed formula helps you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up feeling rejuvenated.* To learn more about the supplement Jason swears by, visit mindbodygreen.com/SLEEP25. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	Performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Lisa Miller is the New York Times bestselling
0:51.2	author of the Spiritual Child. She's a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia
0:56.8	University's Teachers College and the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute.
1:02.8	The first Ivy League graduate program in Spirituality and Psychology. And for over a decade,
1:09.0	she's held joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School.
1:14.8	Her groundbreaking research has been published in more than 100 empirical, peer-reviewed articles
1:20.8	in leading journals. And today, we're going to chat about her latest,
1:26.8	must-read book titled The Awakened Brain. The new science of spirituality in our quest for
1:33.7	an inspired life, which just might be my favorite book of 2021. And this interview is probably
1:41.2	my favorite of 2021 as well. So I am beyond excited for all of you to meet Dr. Lisa Miller.
1:51.0	Lisa, welcome. Jason, thank you so much for having me. It's wonderful to join you.
1:58.9	It is such an honor. I love, love, love your book The Awakened Brain, The New Science of Spirituality
2:04.5	in our quest for an inspired life. You delivered on the promise that's a great title and you delivered.
2:09.0	Jason, thank you. Can you start by walking us through the MRI findings that led you to writing this book?
2:17.6	That we had been searching for a very long time up at Columbia University Medical School
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