Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!The awakened brain's extraordinary power to transform our mental health lies at the intersection of spirituality and neuroscience. This episode proves that. Dr. Lisa Miller reveals it through groundbreaking research showing spiritual connection physically alters brain function. We also explore how our brains are literally built with neural networks designed to perceive transcendent love, receive divine guidance, and experience oneness. Capabilities that, when activated, reduce cortisol, mitigate depression, and shield against addiction and suicide. Dr. Rangan Chatterjee shares how learning to manage our stress response through simple practices like mindful breathing and releasing the need to always be right creates lasting inner peace. And, neurosurgeon Dr. Rahul Jandial offers a fascinating perspective on why we must dream, explaining that our brains cycle between waking and dreaming states as a form of "high-intensity training" essential for maintaining mental flexibility. These three expert conversations help uncover how spiritual practice, stress management, and proper sleep create the foundation for profound mental wellness and personal transformation.In this episode you will learn:The three key networks of an awakened brain that make us feel loved, guided, and connected to something greaterWhy spirituality provides 80% protection against suicide and more protection against depression and addiction than medication aloneHow to nurture your child's natural spiritual awareness without needing to have all the answers yourselfThe powerful "3 Fs" technique to break free from emotional eating and manage stress in healthy waysWhy breathing patterns directly signal your brain about danger or safety, and simple breath work to reset your nervous systemThe surprising science of why humans must dream and how dreams serve as essential "training" for the brainFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1754For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Dr. Lisa Miller – greatness.lnk.to/1708SCDr. Rangan Chatterjee – greatness.lnk.to/1716SCDr. Rahul Jandial – greatness.lnk.to/1603SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
Chapter 1: What are the benefits of spiritual awakening for your brain?
But you know what? Parents are so in love with their child that if we can just hold our tongue and listen, your child is gonna come up and say, you know, I saw grandma. Or your child is gonna come up and say, does God love evil people too? And those are incredible moments. We don't need the answer. We can simply hold the moment and say, wow.
Because often the child's actually not looking for an answer. They're looking to engage in the spiritual realm. Wow. And so they're really saying, can you walk with me here?
When a child asks a question like, does God love bad people? Does God love evil people? Whatever, any question. And a parent says, yes. man, I think I know the answer, but I really don't know the answer. What should a parent do in that moment when a child asks a difficult spiritual question that the parent doesn't know the answer to?
The child's question is an opening for the child to learn to listen to their own heart. So we can say, you know, deep in your inner wisdom, What does your heart say? Or we can say, you know, do you want to sit with me now in meditation or prayer and see what comes to you as the answer to that? Interesting. Teach the child to receive their own spiritual answers. I can tell you a story about that.
I adopted my son from an orphanage north of St. Petersburg, Russia, the most delicious little boy on earth, madly in love with this little boy. How old is he? He was 10 months when he came. Wow. I knew right away that this sort of, you know, secular materialist culture was going to tell them a big story about not having been wanted and why did that mother leave you.
And so I was going to get ahead of this. And the way I was going to get ahead of this with my husband and I together was by talking about our authentic spiritual journey to finding Isaiah. Yeah. So from day one, we said, you know, we had really been five years list. We prayed hard for five years before we found Isaiah.
And so from day one, Isaiah was a little 10-month voice, used to hearing Russian. And we said, Isaiah, mommy and daddy, we prayed for Isaiah. And grandma prayed for Isaiah. And grandpa prayed for Isaiah. And everybody prayed for Isaiah because mommy and daddy had been crying for you. And then one day we heard they'd found Isaiah. And we took little baby, a plane, to a train, to an automobile.
Kids love transportation. Ran up the hill and there, there was Isaiah. And we'd throw him in the air and we'd celebrate. the finding Isaiah story. And that's, you know, when he was one, two, somewhere around four. He got a little older, and they like symbolic stories. So here was little Isaiah. He loved to play in our backyard by a little creek, a river. And we'd point at the river.
We'd squish his toes, and we'd say, Isaiah, you see this river here? You came down this river. You were our baby Moses. Wow. And he'd say, I'm baby Moses. Say, that's right, Isaiah. You came down. God sent you to us. So this was the story of finding Isaiah for a four-year-old. And we always told Isaiah the spiritual story of finding Isaiah. So sure enough, Louis, now he's eight.
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Chapter 2: How does spiritual connection reduce stress and improve mental health?
that makes us follow that rhythm, right? Your body will force you to sleep eventually. Well, I would say your brain. Your brain just shuts off. It builds a pressure. You can startle people and they'll wake up. But at some point, there's this pressure that's bringing you down to sleep. Really? You see that? I think torture techniques were based off of that. We saw that.
Nobody could stay up a third night in the hospital. They tried to get us to a long time ago, the battle day. Really? Yeah, but two nights, second night you could do. Third night, so there's a sleep pressure that the brain generates. Not the body, the brain. Just to give you just examples like we're talking about, like regular examples.
We're not trying to get, we're bringing the science in, but the complexity is in the concept. We can put hearts from one to another, livers from one to another, lungs from one to another. They all follow that person's brain's order. So really what we're talking about is the brain is saying, I need to sleep. The brain is saying, I need to sleep.
Brain is saying, okay, there's some threat going on or you've got some demands. You're running an ultra marathon. You're a surgeon on call. I can go a day, but I need to sleep. So that's the first thing in this discussion is why do we need to sleep? Now I'm going to be bold here. This is a conversation. I think we sleep because we must dream. Now let me just set that up for you. Wow.
What happens... When you go without sleep, you have surges in REM and dreaming sleep right away. First thing you do when you've gone a day without sleep, if you put that person in a brain scan, but there's exquisite ways of checking it, is that the first thing they do is they dream wildly. Right? So that's an interesting thing to me.
The longer we go in our night of restful sleep, the more you're dreaming on the tail end. So maybe mental clarity, if we take that phrase, comes from having that longer night's sleep. Well, what happens in that fifth, sixth, and seventh hour? You're dreaming more. So when I start to see these patterns, I wonder, one, the brain, not the body, needs to sleep.
And then what is the brain doing in sleep? i just checked this out man it's it's doing something that if you put electrodes on the surface of our scalps and we all fall asleep at night during the day the waves the the measurements are uh you know sort of wavy there's different ones depending on how you're engaging at night there are some sharp 90-minute Patterns. That stuff is designed.
That's built in. Really? Yeah. So that's not new. We don't have that when we're awake. No. If something startles us, the electricity will be different. If we meditate, the electricity will be different during waking. But at night, you're all something programmed. then that's not new, Lewis. That's the stuff that I've known for 20 years and sleep people have known for 40 years.
What I'm trying to do is give you an explanation, a synthesis. That's not random. That's not a glitch. Seven billion brains on a 24 hour cycle. Sleep pressure. You got to lie down. You got to sleep. The brain is saying you got to sleep. And when it's sleeping, it's doing this. 90 crisp cycles. REM sleep. You've seen the charts. They're like, they look like Lego.
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