How God Changes Your Brain
Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Robert Waldman, of the Center for Spirituality at the University of Pennsylvania
Whether you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or even an Atheist, thinking about God can improve your cognitive functioning, physical health, and make the world a safer place to live.
In How God Changes Your Brain, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman prove, for the first time, that mediation/prayer improves memory and helps improve the aging brain, and can interrupt the devastating effects of depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and a host of stress-related disorders.
In addition to explaining how different spiritual practices change the brain, this book also teaches readers nine meditations and prayers that will neurologically enhance physical, mental, and spiritual health, and a fifteen-minute exercise that enhances relationship intimacy, even among strangers.
But it is not just about spiritual practices, How God Changes Your Brain tackles fascinating questions such as:
What does God look like?
What does God feel like?
And what happens when God gets angry?
With exciting new research, How God Changes Your Brain reveals the answers to these questions.
Whether you are searching for answers to age-old questions, or want to learn about the most effective ways of improving your brain, How God Changes Your Brain is a powerful guide to help in that journey.
Review
"Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman give us a magnificent, comprehensive explanation of how spiritual beliefs and experiences enhance changes in our brains and yield better health and well-being. They bring science and religion closer together."
-Herbert Benson, M.D., author of The Relaxation Response
"How God Changes Your Brain is a highly practical, easy-to-read guide on the interface between spirituality and neuroscience, filled with useful information that can make your brain and your life better, starting today!"
-Daniel G. Amen, M.D. author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
"Not since William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience has there been a work that so exquisitely integrates science and spirituality. Newberg and Waldman have written a book that is wise, up-to-date, scholarly, mature, and imaginative. At the same time it is a down-to-earth work that will surely inspire repeated readings."
-George Vaillant, M.D., author of Spiritual Evolution
"How God Changes Your Brain boldly explores the relationship between the structure of our brains and our ability not only to experience but to cultivate innate compassion and deep inner peace."
-Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D., author of My Stroke of Insight
"The authors present an illuminating and encouraging view of the inner and outer workings of our neurological perception of reality and how profoundly it is affected by our spiritual practices. Their practical exercises for a brain tune-up are revolutionary, and I'm enjoying immensely including them in my daily spiritual regime."
-Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberationback to top ^