Faith and Your Brain

Posted by Dale Fletcher on July 21, 2009 under Faith and Health, Research | Be the First to Comment

From PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, the work of Andrew Newberg at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Spirituality and the Mind is explored and discussed in an interview.  Here are a few excerpts:

DR. NEWBERG: We’ve learned that being religious or spiritual has a very profound effect on who we are, has a very profound effect on our biology and on our brain, and what we’ve found more recently is that not only does it have a profound influence on who we are, but it actually can change our brain and to change ourselves over times.

Dr. NEWBERG: The more you use a part of the brain the more blood flow it gets and the brighter or more red it looks on the scans.

Follow the link below to read the interview or view it in a video.

The Brain and Faith.

“For as he(a man) thinketh in his heart, so is he.”  Proverbs 23:7 KJV

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