Dr. Lisa Miller - "The Awakened Brain"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Lisa Miller, Ph.D., author of The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life, talks with J about a belief in God and the neuroscience showing its benefits. They discuss the passing of J's mother, forms of knowing, empirical evidence for innate spirituality, post-traumatic spiritual growth, spirituality associated with cortical thickness in the regions of perception and a lessening of anxiety and depression, neural seeds of awareness, and being open to receive the intelligent and loving force that is your birthright.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we are.
0:12.6	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.2	My name is Jay Brown.
0:18.3	If you're new to the show today, welcome to you. Everyone else,
0:24.8	what's up? How are we feeling today? Should we take a moment to check in? As a matter of fact,
0:33.6	I should mention that today's episode with Lisa Miller includes two practices.
0:42.5	I don't believe that's ever happened on the show before, but there are two short,
0:46.7	like 90-second or so guided meditations by Lisa in today's episode.
0:53.7	I will tell you more about that in just a bit.
0:58.1	First, I think it might be a good idea for us to take a little bit of a moment together,
1:05.5	especially because the content of today's episode is deep stuff, I think.
1:12.8	If you've been around and listening to the show, you know,
1:16.4	I've been asking people about spirit and God and higher powers.
1:22.5	And it is definitely coming out of my own personal stuff.
1:31.3	I turned 50 this year, and I think that I have always believed in something.
1:39.4	I just never called it God, but I've always believed in something and had some form of kind of prayer
1:47.5	that I was doing. And there's all these things that I see now in retrospect that were clearly
1:53.2	what I would call the religious components of my life, even though they were not formally
1:59.8	religious in any way.
2:01.5	And I guess you have to define what you mean.
2:03.3	When you say religious, does that mean organized religion?
2:06.6	Or does that mean about your relationship to a higher power?
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