*SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS WEST THINKING*
The following I crossed where one Lisa, highlighted the necessity of
being spiritual in order to balance the mind, which was in another format,
enlightened, so many millennium years back in India. What is that the world
wants no religion or SBNR or adopt a good way of life disciplined but be
spiritual? KR IRS 25 7 23 (Now article)
Lisa Miller: The mental health field minus the spiritual core makes no sense
— because every single one of us is born with a natural spiritual capacity.
We have never had a time where we have had as many people suffer from an
atrophied spiritual core. And with the sharp decline in personal spiritual
life, there has never been as elevated rates of addiction, depression, and
even suicide. We are addicted to goals; we don't even see it. Or life is
about setting goals and achieving them to the expense of being in
relationship with the deepest force of life.
Now, scientists cannot define spirituality, but what science can do very
well is take our lens, whether that lens is an MRI study or epidemiology or
genotyping, and point at the impact of spirituality on the rest of our
lives. I've devoted my life to the scientific study of spirituality and its
deep, really unlimited resource as it protects us against diseases of
despair. Our deep spirituality is our greatest resource for renewal, for
healing. And even when we're faced with profound mental illness,
spirituality is our source of hope.
I'm Dr. Lisa Miller, professor of psychology and education at Columbia
University. I study the science on spirituality, mental health, and
thriving.
Every single one of us, by birth, has two forms of awareness: Achieving
awareness and Awakened awareness. And we need both, and we need them in
balance. Achieving awareness lets us strategize, its tactical thinking: A
plus B plus C. Research it, go after it, get it done. And to be effective
is important in our lives. The achieving brain is in a relentless addiction
to the next goal, the next accomplishment.
So where we get in trouble is when achieving awareness sets our North Star.
This leads us into depression. To find our North Star, our deepest
direction and purpose in life, we need another form of perception, and that
is our awakened awareness. Awakened awareness is when we don't ask, "What
do I want and how am I going to get it?" But instead, ask, "What is life
showing me now? Where am I finding guidance, direction?"
This can come from synchronicity. This can come from a mystical experience,
an intuition, someone showing up in our lives and pointing us in a
direction that we'd never thought of before. The awakened brain allows us
to perceive that we are on a journey — we are on a path. So it turns out
that every single one of us are all born with the neuro-docking station for
awakened awareness.
Together with my colleagues, we looked at people who recovered from
depression through an awakening. We could see that people who suffered the
most really derived profound support and even renewal when connecting to
their higher power: to God, the Universe, whatever their word might be.
They were more likely to perceive and reflect in a profoundly spiritual way.
And this tendency to see life on spiritual bedrock was mirrored by a
thickening of the cortex, offering some evidence that sustained spiritual
life is neuroprotective against depression. And in addition, when we looked
at the awakened brain, what we saw is that universally, we are drawn into
an experience in which we are loved and held, guided, and never alone.
The awakened brain has three major networks: The frontotemporal, the
bonding network comes on just as we were loved and held as children. The
attention network shifts from "I've gotta have it," top-down dorsal, to the
ventral system where the lights go back on and many people say a new
direction pops; we are guided. And the parietal that puts in and out hard
boundaries lets us know that we are never alone. We are a point and we are
a wave. We are magnificently distinct and unique and diverse, and we are
part of one field of life, one sacred consciousness. Each of us is able to
engage our awakened brain, but how do we get there?
In most of the post-industrial world, about 70% of people will say, "I am
spiritual and I am religious." They go hand in hand. About 30% of people
will say, "I am spiritual, but I am not religious.[SBNR] For me, spiritual
life is experiencing nature, family, in art or music." Whether or not we
are religious, every single one of us is a naturally spiritual being.
Spirituality is innate. When we realize our spiritual life, we're
healthier, we're more resilient, we're more ethical. And yes, we even have
more outward success.
But it's worth noting, of all the forms of spiritual life, the one that
most correlates with the thick, strong cortex, if you will, the
fortification of the awakened brain, is altruism: love of neighbour. If you
really feel stuck, if you feel trapped in despair or depression, stand up,
walk out the door, and bring something of beauty, of love to your
neighbour. Bring them a meal. Shovel their driveway. Step out of your
comfort zone just enough to do something a little bit nice for someone.
And as you do, you'll see that long ago you paved the highways into your
natural seat of transcendent awareness. There is a way back to God, your
higher power, the Universe- and it was paved long ago. If you own it and
take it back, you will have jump started your awakened brain.
KR: Is that the spirituality defined? Service to human is service to
GOD? B G only tells that action in inaction and inaction in action. But
Krishna did not use that word spirituality at all. The concept of a Yogi is
described. And by having the altruism, can one become a Yogi? And one who
is mentally imbalanced or lacking in strength, can do such services, but
going to neibors to clean the front gate? If engaged in a sat sangha,
providing peace of mind, providing the needs and providing the human help
and concentrating in the religious verses are not aanmeekam the
spirituality in English? The guna or the human nature is always like the
hard, undulating surface of the Earth. The ground must be levelled and
added fertility for anything to grow. Those formats are rituals imagined
and enunciated by so many in the many parts of the nations, which is not
found in the basic book. Those rituals balance the minds of a person, to
negotiate, in the right way. One does not get it naturally on the first
instant. What is in the pot alone can be consumed and not the empty pot.
Adoption to the religion in right thinking lifts one up like a crane to
displace. Becoming a Yogi is at a short distance. Exceptions are not rules.
Even to become a spirit, one must die first. KR IRS 25 7 23
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