Dr. Lisa Miller: Depression's Hidden Message - The Science of Spiritual Awakening | EP 838

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

"Depression isn't just feeling sad... What we now know from science is that just as depression has neural correlates, our spiritual awareness has neural correlates. We can track in the brain the circuits undergirding a transcendent relationship." - Dr. Lisa Miller In this groundbreaking episode, renowned neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Miller challenges conventional wisdom about depression, revealing that two-thirds of the time, it isn't a medical illness but rather a spiritual awakening in disguise. Drawing from cutting-edge research, she explains how our brains are universally wired for spiritual connection, regardless of religious beliefs. Through her work, Dr. Miller demonstrates how the same brain that experiences depression can also access profound spiritual awareness, offering a revolutionary perspective on mental health. The conversation takes an intimate turn as Dr. Miller shares her personal journey of existential crisis at age 19, sparked by heartbreak and leading to profound questions about life's meaning. Her story illuminates how traditional therapeutic approaches often miss the deeper spiritual hunger underlying depression. Through her own experience and scientific research, she reveals how our darkest moments of questioning and searching can actually be catalysts for spiritual growth and enhanced awareness, offering hope to those struggling with similar challenges.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.7	How can someone who feels the weight of the world, anxiety, depression, ADHD, any of these symptoms, how can they start to transform those symptoms or those feelings or that emotional weight into peace and awakened brain?
0:30.6	To lose half the United States and half of most of the post-industrial world is depressed.
0:37.4	Really?
0:37.9	We have unprecedented supply of food.
0:41.7	We have unprecedented quality of medical care.
0:45.6	We are a very well-provided for a society,
0:49.1	instilled our inner life.
0:50.8	It hurts.
0:51.8	It hurts.
0:52.7	And depression isn't just feeling sad. Depression can be an edginess.
0:57.0	You know, a lot of times people are grumpy or hostile. Depression can be this sense of dread
1:03.6	creeping up on us and anxiety like the boogeyman inside. Depression can be not wanting to eat,
1:10.1	lying in bed, not having our game on at all.
1:13.5	So depression is not just sadness.
1:15.3	It's really powering down.
1:17.1	And for a very long time, there was most of the 20th century, people would say, depression,
1:23.0	well, we can see that it has biological correlates.
1:26.0	We can see that there's correlates in the brain. Depression,
1:29.3	that's a medical illness, always and only, uniformly. But over here, you know, there's these
1:36.0	people who are religious or they're spiritual and religious. That, that's, you know, that might be
1:41.7	nice for them. But the view in the 20th century in much of mental health
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