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Name: The Awakened Brain
Rating: 4.5 (522 reviews)
Author: Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller

The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

4.5 (522 Bewertungen)

21 Min.

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Erfülltes Leben Spiritualität Das Gehirn Mentale Gesundheit Trauma & Heilung

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What’s in it for me? Awaken your innate capacity for spiritual awareness.

Depression is a growing epidemic. Yet standard approaches to healing aren’t working, leaving people overmedicated and overanalyzed. Typical therapies ask us to relive our pain to understand it, and then build new beliefs and healthier thoughts. But what if this approach is wrong?

What if depression is a built-in process of human development that emerges at certain life stages? What if it’s actually a calling to engage with a higher consciousness? For the author, Dr. Lisa Miller, this is exactly where decades of scientific research, clinical work, and personal experience have led.

These blinks explore this science of spirituality and uncover the biological capacity for spiritual awareness that – if you let it – can open you up to brand new ways of seeing the world.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

that spirituality and depression are two sides of the same coin;
why spending time in nature can be so healing; and
how to awaken your brain to spiritual awareness.

Spirituality protects against depression.

The original challenge to Dr. Lisa Miller’s thinking about traditional psychology came early in her first role out of graduate school.

It was fall and the in-patient ward where she worked in Manhattan had nothing planned for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. So she organized it herself – a dinner in the ward’s tiny back kitchen.

The four patients who attended were normally agitated and volatile. But as soon as they started singing and praying together, something changed. They became calm. They smiled and expressed gratitude.

Miller was shocked. In her entire time there this was the biggest shift in behavior she’d seen, and it hadn’t come from treatment. What was the secret behind this moment? she wondered. And what did it mean for treating depression?

The key message here is: Spirituality protects against depression.

The following year, Miller got the chance to better understand what had caused the dramatic change in the patients when she landed a job at Columbia University.

Every morning, she’d commute to campus and pore over the data from her study. She was researching the factors that increase children’s risk of, and resilience against, depression.

The data came from patients at a depression clinic in New Haven tracked over the course of 15 years. Each was matched with a nondepressed control subject who shared similar demographics.

The research revealed significant patterns, like how poverty and having a mother with depression increase a child’s risk of depression, while affectionate parenting styles protect against it.

But she couldn’t stop thinking about the healing shift she’d witnessed at the Yom Kippur dinner, and whether it had something to do with a spiritual experience. How could she measure the relationship between spirituality and depression?

She looked at the survey data again. If both a mother and her child said that religion or spirituality were important to them, did this protect against child depression? She compared them to mother-child pairs who both said spirituality wasn’t important or gave differing responses.

The results were astounding. When both a mother and her child had high spirituality, the child was 80 percent protected against depression. In fact, intergenerational transfer of spirituality was by far the strongest protective factor against depression she’d found.

Miller’s lifelong journey to discover the science of spirituality had begun.

We have an innate, biological capacity for spiritual development.

One morning in 1997, Miller was eating breakfast with her husband while skimming an issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, when an article caught her attention. It was a groundbreaking study by Dr. Kenneth Kendler at the Virginia Commonwealth University, which investigated the relationship between spirituality and mental health in adults.

Miller was astonished by the results. It was the first scientific study to show that spirituality isn’t only passed down through culture, but also embedded in our genes.

Depression and spirituality are two sides of the same coin.

Is there a physiological basis for depression? That was the question Dr. Brad Peterson set out to answer when he and his team at Columbia University began comparing brain images of people who were high-risk for depression to those who were low-risk.

They found that high-risk individuals, that is people with a family history of depression, had different brain structures: the outer surface of their right cortex was up to 28 percent thinner.

Spiritual healing is about attuning to a larger consciousness and the meaning it reveals.

For years, Miller had tried to get pregnant, first naturally and then through IVF. But to no avail. She began falling into a depression with the growing realization that she may never become a mother.

Then, one day, she came home to find an egg – more specifically, a fertilized duck embryo – on her doorstep. Hoping to save the embryo, she carefully moved it, placing it on the earth, and went inside.

The awakened brain enables us to see the world reaching out to us.

The willow trees bent inward to form a dome and were covered in animal hides. A fire burned inside and filled the inipi with smoke. Within minutes of stepping in, Miller was drenched in sweat and questioning her decision to come.

Still reeling from the pain of childlessness, she’d been invited to this Lakota healing ceremony by her cousin, who worked closely with the Native American community. When it was their turn to share, her cousin asked the women healers to help Miller find her child.

Spiritual experiences deactivate your achieving mind and activate your awakened mind.

After years of research, Miller was finally piecing together the scientific puzzle of spirituality. First, she found that spirituality protects against depression, addiction, and mental illness.

Then she discovered that our capacity for spirituality is biological and works in the same regions of the brain as depression, but to the opposite effect. She came to understand that spirituality is an integral part of human development and that mental struggle may be the first step in spiritual awakening.

The awakened brain enables us to see our connection with others, nature, and a greater unity.

In 1987 at the University of Mexico, a man named Dr. Jacobo Grinberg carried out a series of experiments that began to untangle the mysteries of human connection. He had two subjects meditate together for 20 minutes and found that afterward, their brain wave patterns were in sync.

The meditators were then separated into shielded rooms where they couldn’t see or hear each other. Here, researchers flashed light into one subject’s eyes and measured the corresponding brain wave activity. What they found was that the other subject, in a completely separate room, mentally registered the flashes of light as well, about one-quarter of the time, despite receiving no physical flashes.

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Worum geht es in The Awakened Brain?

The Awakened Brain (2021) reveals the science of spirituality. Drawing on Dr. Lisa Miller’s decades of research and her own personal journey, it locates an innate capacity for spirituality in human biology. When engaged, this spiritual awareness can protect against depression, support health, and reveal the deep interconnection between all life.

Wer The Awakened Brain lesen sollte

Seekers of science and spirituality
People coping with depression or anxiety
Anyone contemplating life’s big questions

Über den Autor

Lisa Miller, PhD, is a professor of psychology and spirituality at Columbia University, where she holds joint appointments at Teachers College and the medical school’s department of psychiatry. She’s the best-selling author of The Spiritual Child.

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