Lisa Miller || The Awakened Brain

Today we welcome Dr. Lisa Miller, the founder and director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain. In this episode, I talk to Lisa Miller about the new science of spirituality. Despite what skeptics might believe, science and spirituality don’t necessarily contradict each other. Lisa’s research has found that humans are born with a natural capacity to connect with the spiritual. By being open to the transcendent, our brains can reap the benefits of resiliency, creativity, and more. We also touch on the topics of neuroscience, existentialism, mindfulness, and empiricism. Website: www.lisamillerphd.com Twitter: @lisamillerphd   Topics 01:34 The Awakened Brain 06:14 Conversations with Martin Seligman 13:20 The spiritual child 15:16 Science augments spirituality  17:26 Defining spirituality and devotion 25:04 Personality correlations with spirituality 27:25 A monism approach to consciousness  31:27 Searching for life’s meaning 37:08 Schumann resonances  39:56 Religious war is outdated 43:34 Transcendence is a process 46:57 Meditation practice with Lisa See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.