Spirituality Protects Against Depression, MRI shows - Dr. Lisa Miller, Author of The Awakened Brain
Spirituality Protects Against Depression, MRI shows - Dr. Lisa Miller, Author of The Awakened Brain in conversation with Venkat.
“We are all Spiritual beings”, “ Child is born a knower, a spiritual knower” says Dr. Lisa Miller, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University. and the Founder of the Spirituality, Mind, Body Institute.
Dr. Miller found MRI evidence that spirituality offers protection against depression. In her recently published book The Awakened Brain, she brings to light scientific evidence from her own award-winning work and those of others, backed by MRI studies, genetic research, and so on, to illuminate the science of spirituality.
Topics, Quotes and Timings:
1. Researching on brains of people with higher spiritual practice and those with low or no spiritual practice 2:10 min
2. We are all Spiritual Beings 4:18min
3. There are threads of lived human spiritual life that are absolutely game changing on the rest of our lives. 4:32 min
4. We have a strong Spiritual Core 5:10 min
5. Significance of an Olympian state of mind 5:29 min
6. You are Everything, You are That 11:27 min
7. The Child is born a knower, a spiritual knower 14:13 min
8. The capacity through which we experience the Transcendent Reality is 1/3rd innate, and 2/3rds environmentally formed 14:58 min
9. Prayer, meditation, whether it is right action ... we are constantly shaping this innate capacity 15:30 min
10. Patterns in the brain structures of the depressed and the not depressed 16:27 min
11. When there is a strong spiritual life in the child who grows up to be a parent, that person is 90% less likely to carry forward the family struggle with depression. 18:20 min
12. When mother and child were both high in spirituality, the child was 80 percent protected against depression 23:22 min
13. How effective was spirituality compared to medicines and other treatments for depression? 23:43 min
14. Spirituality was nearly twice as protective in teens 24:45 min
15. Do we see physical evidence in the brain that spirituality offers protection? 26:11 min
16. People with a spiritual practice get protected when they face subsequent depressing events 28:30
17. Awakened awareness – 3 aspects 30:43 min
18. Two kinds of awareness we need 31:45 min
19. There is some genetic contribution to spirituality – evidence from twin-studies 37:30 min
20. What should we do in our daily lives so that it is our awakened brain that is dominant? 44:10 min
21. A study of 5500 participants in India, China, USA – people shared 5 common phenotypes 50:11 min
The book is available at https://www.amazon.com/Awakened-Brain-Science-Spirituality-Inspired/dp/198485562X
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