done. So, today we're going to talk about 10 different things that seem miraculous that neuroscience is now explaining that scripture said all along. We're going to tie those together for you in a way that you can use them in your life. We've talked about a few of these at different times here and there, but I put them all together in one list. We're not talking about miracles like water turning into wine, although that was pretty spectacular. We're talking about ones that are happening inside your skull every single day and the jaw-dropping wonder that I find myself thinking about and feeling and experiencing when I hear these things of what God has done to help us operate our lives in a happier, better, healthier way. The more we study the brain, the more it becomes crystal clear scripture has been prescribing human flourishing since long before fMRI scans were available. Now they're just confirming it. These aren't just coincidences, they're echoes of intentional, purposeful, intelligent design behind the way your body is fearfully and wonderfully made. So, today we're going to look at 10 miraculous, seemingly miraculous neuroscience findings that reflect timeless biblical truths. That's where we're going to go today. I'm going to give you 10 incredible things that line up with scripture. We're going to give you the science, we're going to give you the verses, we're going to show you how they tie together, you can use them in your lives. These practical self-brain surgery steps that you can start using this very week to change your mind, change your brain, and change your life. That's where we're going today. I'm your friend Dr. Lee Warren. Let's get after it. All right, if you're new around here, this is the place where faith and neuroscience meet and we learn how to operate on ourselves with the scalpel that God gave us, the ability to renew our minds and use our minds to control what our brains become. So, grab a notebook, maybe a cup of coffee if you're sitting. Let's dive in. We're going to look at these 10 discoveries that are going to blow your mind in the best possible way. The first one is that neuroscientists have now confirmed that gratitude rewires the brain for joy. Now, you've probably heard a thousand times that when people say you can't be anxious and grateful at the same time or that gratitude is really good for you and people have gratitude journals and gratitude practices, but science, interestingly, is now proving that it's so much more than a simple platitude. It's not just a mind shift hack. Neuroscience has shown that practicing gratitude activates the medial prefrontal cortex of your brain, the part of your brain that's right behind your forehead, and helps regulate your emotions. It also boosts dopamine and serotonin. These are the feel-good neurotransmitters, the happy chemicals in your brain, and they improve your mood, and they build resilience. And over time, gratitude literally reshapes your brain so it begins to scan the world for positive things instead of the negative things. And the Bible told us this a long time ago. Give thanks in all circumstances, Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5:18. Not for all circumstances, he didn't say that. He said in all circumstances. Don't You don't have to thank God for the hardship, but you can thank God during the hardship, and what will happen is your brain will rewire to begin to look for hope, to look for opportunity, try to begin solving problems instead of just being washed over by them. I've seen this in my own life and in the lives of countless patients. When you start a gratitude journal, when you start paying attention to things that are blessings out there in spite of and in the face of the hard things you're going through, do write down three things every morning or every night and meditate or pray about them for a minute, you're not just being nice to yourself, you're doing neuro rehab. You're retraining your brain literally. And so, a good self brain surgery operation then would be to start tonight or in your quiet time in the morning and write down three specific things that you're grateful for. Be as detailed as possible. Now, I'll get some pushback here. Somebody will say, "Hey, I'm dying of terminal brain cancer. What do I have to be grateful for? I lost my husband. My child died. How can I be What do I have to be grateful for? My world's been wrecked." Well, it can be hard. But one thing you can be grateful for is that you have a mind that's not your brain, that you have the gift of selective attention, that you can engage your mind to structurally change your brain and rewire it when you want to, that you have the ability to draw in air and extract that oxygen from the environment. You're You're still alive. Your heart is pumping. That you have the the ability to evaluate what you're thinking about and feeling instead of just experiencing it. You can decide to change your response to things that they're not serving you. You can be grateful for all of those things. You can be grateful that there are other people who love you, that there are people who watching this show who are praying for you, that that that I'm out here bringing you this information. You can be grateful for something. And your neurochemistry doesn't care what you're grateful for. It just cares that you're pondering something you are grateful for and it will improve your neurochemistry. So, if you begin to write down some things, then you'll start thinking of other things that you're grateful for. You'll start improving your chemistry. Your brain will start to shift out of a fear-based amygdala limbic system kind of worried fight or flight kind of state. Your cortisol level will come down. Your frontal lobes will come online and get more active. And here's what's going to happen. Your problems won't magically go away, but you'll start seeing more opportunity to interact with them. You'll start putting them in a context of a larger story that there's still some good things in your world. And if you do this for 2 weeks every day, I promise you, you will be shocked of what begins to happen to your default mindset. Why? Because the ninth commandment of self-brain surgery is that what you're doing, you're getting better at. We talk about Hebb's law all the time around here, neuroplasticity, this idea that neurons that fire together wire together. And we also talk about the reticular activating system, the filtering mechanism in your brain. It's never true that there's only one thing in your world. It's always true that your grief and shame and fear and all of those things just narrow our vision. Trauma just narrows our focus where all we can see is the one thing and we can't see all all the other good things. So, forcing yourself into a gratitude journal doesn't negate the difficult things. It doesn't mean you're pretending like they're not true. It's not not toxic positivity. It's just saying, "Hey, two things can be true at the same time." And I can teach my brain that I don't have to live in just the single narrow focus of the hardship. I can instead pivot and also be aware of everything that's good out there and I can train my brain to find those things and give me a lifeline when it feels so impossible. That's miraculous, isn't it? It's also how your brain is designed. The second one, prayer and meditation strengthen and restructure the brain. Your quiet time in the morning, if you spend it like I recommend that you do, literally reshapes your brain. It's been shown in lots of studies that long-term meditation, 10 or 15 minutes a day, and contemplative prayer increase the thickness of the cortical areas in your brain that are responsible for emotional regulation, attention, and memory. That means when you pray and when you meditate, your brain physically remodels itself. It gets more robust in the areas that are related to helping you have a calm, productive, decision-making brain that's not so afraid all the time. The brain scans of people who pray and meditate for a few minutes every day, they look different than the brain scans of people who don't. They're thicker, they're healthier, they're more resilient. That's why Psalm 46:10 told us thousands of years ago, "Be still and know that I am God. That be still isn't just nice advice. It's a neurological prescription for making your brain work better. When you sit quietly with God, you're not wasting time. You're doing deep brain surgery. You're strengthening the very circuits that help you handle stress, remember truth, and regulate your emotions. Here's a self brain surgery operation for you. Try the one minute stillness practice. Set a timer for 60 seconds and just close your eyes, breathe slowly, and simply repeat, "Lord, I'm here. What do you want me to know? What do you want What do you want me to know right now?" I learned this prayer from Tata. You do this two or three times a day, your brain will begin to thank you because you're going to develop a brain that can learn how to be calm in any sort of situation. This isn't Let me just separate here for a second. Eastern meditation, this idea that you go and just sit and kind of get into a trance and try not to perceive anything, try not to hear anything, but just trying to tune everything out and just be in stillness, that's not the same as what I would call Christian meditation or mindfulness. Christian meditation is about learning how to hear the one voice that can help you. The be still and know that I am God. It's not don't hear anything. It's stop hearing everything that's harming you and not helping you. All the distracted automatic negative thoughts, of which we know most of them are false. It's trying to learn how to calm yourself enough to stop hearing all the things you're afraid of and worried about and that are stressing you out and the voice of the enemy or or other things that are distracting you and hearing the one voice that can really help you. So, mindfulness, Christian meditation, that sort of prayer practice where you're focusing getting that right hemisphere of your brain activated, you can learn to do that in a very short amount of time and you can call that practice into your life even in times when you're really busy and really stressed out. I do it in the operating room all the time when something's hard. I just take a second and a deep breath and just try to activate the right hemisphere of my brain and call into the picture other things that my left side might not let me see right then. How do I get through this? What's the big story of this operation? Why does this feel so hard right now? And my brain will support me because my creator is helping me engage the parts of my brain that are more oriented towards problem solving than fear sensing. It's a miracle, right? It sure feels like it. The third one, forgiveness reduces stress and improves your physical health. Forgiveness is not just spiritual, it's medical. When you forgive, no matter what it is or who it is that you're forgiving, activity in the amygdala, the fear and alarm center, decreases. Your cortisol level drops. Your cardiovascular health improves. One study even showed that forgiveness training helped cardiac patients with anger, mood, and stress vulnerability. Somebody wrote in the other day and said, "Hey, I know you said you had an episode recently about forgiveness and you said it's so important and it's so good for us, but I had a husband who was unfaithful to me serially with many people. They knew he was married. How do I forgive them? It seems so wrong for me to have to forgive those people." Well, it's not for them. It's for you. They don't even have to know that you have forgiven them because unforgiveness is corrosive because it keeps us in a high cortisol state. Unforgiveness hardens your arteries and breaks your brain and makes it hard for you to make good decisions and keeps you up at night and ages you. Unforgiveness hurts you more than it hurts anybody else. Colossians 3:13 commands us, "Forgive as the Lord forgave you." So, the only prescription I can write is that if there's somebody out there that you don't want to forgive, you got to turn to God and say, well, I guess you don't have to forgive me either. Cuz the Bible says, forgive as he forgave you. So, it's just justice when you're treated as you've been treated, right? God's forgiving you for a lot. You're to forgive others, but it's not for them. It's for you. That sounds like a hard teaching, but science shows us that command is so loving because it protects you. It protects your body and your brain. Here's the surgery. Write down the name of somebody that you need to forgive on a piece of paper. Pray for them daily. This is going to seem hard. Note, this isn't the same as saying that you need to keep letting somebody abuse you or keep letting somebody hurt you or not file for divorce if somebody's seriously unfaithful. I'm not saying any of that stuff. I'm talking about you in your quietness in the depth of your heart and your relationship with your Lord, your decision to let go and let God manage the justice piece of what's been done. And you write down somebody's name that needs to be forgiven and pray for them. Jesus said, bless your enemies. Bless and do not curse. He didn't say that they would stop being your enemies. He didn't say that you forgiving them and blessing them would change their behavior. He just said, I need you to do this. I need you to trust me enough to let me handle them and you just between me and you, you forgive. So, pray for these people every day for a week. You don't have to feel warm and fuzzy. Just feel obedient, okay? The feelings follow the obedience and I promise you what'll happen is after a week or 2 weeks or 3 weeks, you may still be just as angry and just as upset and just as divorced or just as frustrated or whatever the situation was, but you're going to feel better in your body. You're going to feel more connected to God in your prayer time. You're going to feel more hopeful for your future because the weight of that anger and that unforgiveness is not going to be draping you like it has. You're going to set that down so you can proceed with your life even if you don't interact with that person anymore. Forgiveness is miraculous because it helps you. The next one, the fourth one. Community heals the brain and extends your lifespan. Number four might be my favorite because it's so practical. Social connection decreases your risk of depression. It boosts your immune system and it actually correlates with the longer life. There was a massive meta-analysis that found that strong relationships are as important to longevity as quitting smoking. But loneliness was as bad for your cardiovascular health as cigarette smoking. That's stunning to me, but it's true. Genesis 2:18 says it is not good for man to be alone. That wasn't just a statement about marriage. It was a statement about how God wired the human brain. Loneliness isn't just painful, it's deadly and self-brain surgery can help you there. The procedure is this. Reach out to one person this week. A text message, a coffee, a phone call. If you don't If you literally don't have anybody in your life that you can reach out to, go volunteer at a food pantry somewhere. Go volunteer at a clothing shelter somewhere. Go Go down to the Red Cross and see if they need help with blood drives. Like go drive for Meals on Wheels. Like find someplace to volunteer. Go to your church and ask if there's any service projects, if there's any way you can volunteer to help. Getting connected with other people who are like-minded, who are also trying to serve, who are also volunteering. This will create some community for you, okay? Whether it's church or a social organization or volunteering or or however you do it, getting connected to other people will make a difference in your life. Start having some real conversations, not text messaging. Sit face-to-face with somebody and have a conversation, your brain will light up. Your body will feel better. Your arteries will get better over time. And you might even live longer. Community is important. That's why God prescribed it for us. The next one, focus and attention shape our reality. This one's out on the quantum edge. What you focus on gets bigger. What you pay attention to becomes more real. The reticular activating system of your brain, this network of filtering neurons in your brain stem, pays attention to whatever you tell it is important. It reinforces the neural pathways that you use most often. This is so counterintuitive because all of us think that our eyes are like little cameras. They just show us what's going on in the world around us, but that's not how it is. Your eyes are show you what is heavily filtered by your reticular activating system based on what you've told it to look for. So, if you tell your brain you're going to have a lousy day and nothing ever works out for you, you're going to start seeing evidence of that in your world. Not because all the good things went away, but because you're filtering out everything that doesn't support what you told your brain to care for. And this has been proven in so many studies, and you've proven it in your own life before, too. If you've ever found a a penny on the sidewalk or a four-leaf clover, all of a sudden for the next week you seem to find those things everywhere. It's because you start noticing things because your brain is looking for them. They were always there, you just walked past them before. Now you see them because you're looking for them. The brain filters our reality heavily, and the observer effect says our attitude and attention and perspective shapes the reality of the world around us. So, it's not just noticing, you also have a role in creating the reality around you. Proverbs 23:7 nails it. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So, here's the operation. Choose one area of your life that you want to change. And every time you catch yourself thinking an old thought, replace it with a new one. Like, "Nothing ever works out for me. Today is going to be a great day." Something like that. "What went right today? Something great's going to happen tomorrow." Do this for 30 days. The same thing every day. Look out for this particular thing that you're looking out for, and watch your brain start to believe the new story. Start to write down how often this thing happens. You know, "Somebody's going to be nice to me today. Somebody was nice to me today. Somebody's going to give me an opportunity today." And somebody does. Start noticing that how often that comes true when you set your brain to filter for it. Now, notice too, I'm not slipping in to some kind of metaphysical manifestation teaching here. I don't believe that you can just set your intentions and a million dollars will show up. I don't believe that. I don't believe you can make somebody fall in love with you by changing your thoughts. I don't believe that you can guarantee yourself painful circumstances will go away, or that you'll be blessed financially, or any that name it and claim it stuff. It's not scriptural. And common sense and observation shows us that bad things happen to people, okay? Hard circumstances are guaranteed. What I'm talking about is that your reality is heavily filtered based on what you're looking for. And if you start looking for better things, your brain will show you the ones that were already there. And there's a lot of beauty and a lot of good things in this life, even when we're hurting. I told you a few minutes ago that trauma and pain and grief and suffering narrow our vision. Well, gratitude and resetting our filters broaden our vision and allow us to see those two things that can be true at the same time, that there's still some good mixed in with the hardship. And that's what I want for you. Number six, hope changes your neurological hardware. The placebo effect in medicine is real. You probably heard about that. You might have been given a placebo before, sugar pill or an empty capsule and been told that it's going to make you feel better and it does. That's because it's not magic and it's not that you're crazy, it's because expectation activates your body's natural painkillers and dopamine pathways in your brain. Believing something gets your brain to think it's true and turn it into something that is true frequently. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, Hebrews 11:1. Science calls it the placebo effect. Now, I'm not saying that faith is all fake, it's not at all. What I'm saying is your brain, when you believe something, can turn that belief into reality. Again, this is not manifestation language. This is God wiring into us a mechanism of hope. Because if you're not looking for things that are out there, you won't find them even if they're there. Okay? And if you don't believe you can get well, your brain will turn a switch and it will become almost impossible for you to get well. Studies have shown, and I've seen it in my own practice, when people think they're going to die after surgery, alarmingly high numbers of them actually do die. Because their brains turned on parts of their engines in their bodies that were going to make it hard for them to heal. Hope and despair are both powerful change agents of your nervous system. And you need to land on hope because there's a reason to keep fighting whatever you're going through. Hope is the engine of possibility and change. God wired that into you. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. It's not a placebo. It's not a It's not a fake mechanism. It's just that you've got a lot of internal things that God gave you that help you to heal and hope and have higher performance. And if you hold on and press in and don't stop believing, your body, including your brain, will support you in alarmingly helpful ways. So, don't give up. Hope is everything. That's why Psalm 71:14 is part of my tagline when I sign a lot of times, especially my book, Hope is the first dose. It's as for me, I will always keep hoping. Here's the surgery. When you face a difficult diagnosis or a difficult situation, speak hopeful things out loud. God is working and I'm going to get better. Your brain is listening. Okay, start journaling that, things you hope for, things you believe in. Try to find promises of God that seem to point towards that thing being possible for you and you'll start seeing more good outcomes in your life. Again, hard things happen, okay? Everybody dies, disease affects all of us, but you can get well while you're dying. There's a separation between circumstance and peace of mind and having a hopeful, hope-oriented mechanism in your brain helps you have a better life, no matter what your circumstances are. What's the next one? Peace guards the brain from damage. Peace is a brain protection. Chronic stress shrinks your hippocampus and your prefrontal cortex. They literally get smaller when you're washed in cortisol all the time, but God's peace enhances neurogenesis. Actually, peace peace of mind increases the number of new neurons that grow in your brain. And it restores emotional control. Philippians 4:6 and 7 promises that the peace of God will guard your hearts and your minds if you pray with Thanksgiving and gratitude and you shift from harmful thinking to better thinking. Here's your self brain surgery procedure. When anxiety hits, stop and pray Philippians 4:6 and 7 out loud. Write it down, memorize it or have it handy so you can call it out. The peace of God will guard my heart and my mind. The peace of God will guard my heart and my mind. And feel it coming true. Be grateful, pray, do thought transplants and feel God keeping his promise. Every single time you start to feel anxious, say Philippians 4:6 and 7, "The peace of God will guard my heart and my mind." Your brain will start to associate worry with peace. When you feel worried, you'll switch into peace mode. You'll switch into calling into better thinking. You'll get better at what you're doing because of Hebb's law and neuroplasticity. And you'll start feeling better as soon as something seems to start threatening your peace of mind. Number eight, generosity creates joy and resilience. Giving isn't draining, it turns out to be energizing. Acts of generosity light up the mesolimbic reward system in your brain. This is the same system that's activated by food or sex or other pleasurable activities. Generosity activates the same parts of your brain. Acts 20:35 is right, it's more blessed to give than receive. Your brain is wired to get better when you're generous. Even if you just have a little bit, sharing and being kind and being generous to others instead of this protective mode of being stingy or selfish and hoarding things, that turns your brain on and satisfies you and is good for you. It's good for your body. So, the self-brain surgery procedure is do one little act of kindness, even if it's anonymous this week. Something you don't get credit for or something that other people might not notice, and just start noticing how you feel after. If it's something simple in your home, rinse the dishes that are in the sink and put them in the dishwasher so your wife or your your mom doesn't have to do it. Like, take a little opportunity, make the bed for your spouse while they're in the other room. Like, do something sneaky to just help and serve. You know, give some money to a homeless person, but don't tell them who you are. Don't don't take any credit for it. Do something to just show other people that you're kind and generous, but show your brain that you know God is going going for you, that you that you do have enough, that you know he's going to bless you in response to you blessing others, and the parts of your brain that are responsible for joy and peace and excitement and and satisfaction and all those things will come on and you'll start feeling better. So, if you feel stuck, try generosity. That feeling is your brain doing exactly what God designed it to do. The next one. Neuroplasticity proves that we can change our minds and our brains. You are not stuck, friend, with the brain that you had because neuroplasticity means that your brain can literally change itself structurally. It's the whole basis of self brain surgery. Repeated thoughts and behaviors literally form and strengthen neural circuits in your brain. Romans 12:2 commands us, "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Norman Doidge's book, The Brain That Changes Itself, shows us this is exactly how God made us. He has remarkable stories, and it's not a spiritual book at all, but he has remarkable stories in that book of people who learn to think differently about their Parkinson's or other problems, and they got better. They changed the way they thought, they changed their behaviors in response to that, and their bodies responded. Your brain will rewire in response to what you're thinking about in remarkable ways. God has designed you to heal and grow and change, and you are never stuck with the brain that you have. So, the surgery tip is to pick one thought pattern that you want to change. Every time that shows up, whatever it is, interrupt it and replace it with truth. Sever that sick thought and transplant it with truth, and you will find over just a few days that your baseline automatic thinking will become more reliable, more generally positive, and more true. You're literally rewiring yourself. God gave you this ability, so why would you practice as if you don't have it? And the final one, the 10th miraculous thing, is a sense of purpose builds mental and physical health. Purpose isn't a luxury, it's a survival mechanism. Victor Frankl said when he was surviving the concentration camps of World War II, he said, "If you can find purpose in your suffering, it stops feeling like suffering." I can tell you this is true as a bereaved father. When I started figuring out that I could communicate about the things my family and I were doing to try to move forward after we lost Mitch, when I started writing and podcasting, soon I was hearing from other bereaved parents who were saying things like, "You know what? I didn't have the words to express what you said and it lifted me up. It gave me some hope. And thank you for sharing that and I'm sure your son is proud of you." And I started saying, "Wait a minute. I'm turning this loss into a legacy. I'm letting Mitch live on. I'm letting him serve people by what we learned after his death." And it turned out to be one of the keys to our survival. So, when I say that, it's not hyperbole. Purpose is not a luxury item. It's a survival mechanism. Having meaning in life is linked to a lower stress, better sleep, and slower cognitive decline. Jeremiah 29:11 reminds us that God has plans for you. He says, "I know the plans I have for you, Sally or Chris or Jim or Donna or Lisa or Beth. I know the plans I have for you. Plans to give you hope and a future. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you." He has a purpose for you, friend. So, here's the operation. Write down your why. Why do you get up in the morning? What am I here for? And if you don't know, then pray that God will reveal to you the purpose for your life. If you're still alive and you think you're too old to matter, well, God says, "Hey, your heart is still beating. There's a reason why you're still here." Start writing letters to your grandkids. Start sending text messages to your kids. Start volunteering somewhere. Do something. Find a purpose in addition to just honoring God with your life. Find something that gives you a sense that you accomplished something today. And then write that thing down in the morning, read it every day, and notice at the end of the day what steps you took to try to fulfill that purpose, and you will start coming alive again. I promise, cuz you're wired for it. Now, I said we're going to have 10 of these miracles, but I got one more for you. This is a bonus. Number 11. This is fascinating to me. I just wanted to include this one because I just read it the other day, and it was just it's been blowing my mind. Distant intention and prayer can influence the brain function of other people. This is This is crazy, what I'm about to tell you. But it really fires me up, because it's so close to what so many of us already believe, that neuroscience is catching glimpses of what the Bible has been saying for centuries. That when somebody prays for you, or sends focused, loving, intentional thought toward you from a distance, it can actually show up as real changes in your brain activity. There was a fascinating paper in 2005 that didn't get enough press, as far as I'm concerned. And it's obvious why, cuz it has spiritual implications. But this study was published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine by Achterberg and colleagues, and they used functional magnetic resonance imaging scans on people who were completely sensorily isolated in another room. What What that means is, they put somebody in a scanner, they couldn't see or hear or be aware of whether somebody was praying for them or not while their brains were being scanned. And then in another room, functionally separate from the scanning room, they trained people to pray specific prayers in random order, and they had on times and off times for the praying while the scans were taking place. And so, the prayers didn't know whether the patient was actively being scanned at a particular time or not, and the people getting scanned didn't know if somebody was praying for them or not while they were being scanned. They were just instructed that the prayers were instructed to focus their thoughts and their healing intention towards these people at certain times. And then they measured the results, and this is where it got fascinating. The people in the scanners, their brains showed that anterior and middle cingulate cortex, the precuneus, and the frontal lobes of the brains of people who were being prayed for were activated during the prayer times and not activated during times when they weren't prayed for. What does that mean? It means that somebody thinking, loving, intentional thoughts toward you somebody interceding in prayer for you from a distance is correlated with measurable changes in the parts of your brain that are related to emotional resilience, calmness, peace of mind, and healing. The scriptures always pointed to this kind of powerful connection. James 5:16 tells us the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. We're told in Galatians 6:2 to bear each other's burdens, that when two or three of us are gathered in his name, he is there with us. Our prayers for each other, my friend, are not just nice words. They are doing real neurological work in the brains and in the lives of other people. God is working through your immaterial mind with his to affect other people's physical brains. Praying helps other people. It's not a question. It's real. It's science. And the Bible said it all along. I thought that was a worthy bonus to tell you about. So, the self brain surgery procedure then would be ask two or three trusted friends to pray for you about one specific thing. Tell them, "You don't need to text me and tell me when you're praying. Just do it. Just pray for me for a week." And you do the same for other people. Make it a daily habit to intentionally pray for others by name, even people you don't know, even people you might not ever meet. Because the science suggests that your prayers might be lighting up their brains in ways that we are only just beginning to understand. And then start to notice if you know people are praying for you, are you a little bit more calm? Are you a little bit more hopeful? Are you noticing a little bit better ability to make decisions? Are you finding yourself with less brain fog? Are you seeming to be more peaceful and hopeful about your future? That's your brain being affected by other people's prayers. I think that's kind of miraculous. Hey, listen. I know this has been kind of a fast run through these 11 miraculous neuroscience and scriptural things. But the more science shines its light on the brain, the more it reveals something ancient and beautiful. We are not accidents. We were designed with intention, with purpose, and with an owner's manual called the word of God that actually works. Hey, if you haven't read my book yet, The Life Changing Art of Self Brain Surgery, I know it's going to help you, friend. Check it out at my website, drleeworrall.com, or anywhere books are sold. I would love for you to be subscribed to my newsletter. Every Sunday, since 2014, I've been giving you my best prescriptions for how you can smash faith and neuroscience together to help you achieve healing and hope and higher performance. Hit that like button. Hit that subscribe button. If you're watching on YouTube, make sure you hit that bell icon so you get notified about new episodes. 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Cuz I want you to change your life. But you got to change your mind first. And the good news is you can start today. I'm praying for you, friend. Proud of you. Grateful for you. We'll see you next time. God bless. >>
In this episode, we look at ten fascinating places where science and faith connect to unlock your flourishing life. The study mentioned in #11 is here (you can read it, but there are ads): https://www.scribd.com/document/663022202/Achterberg-2005-fMRI-DMILS The actual citation is paywalled, but it's here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16398587/ *Resources and Links* My latest book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery: https://bit.ly/3LlJF9o My book, 2021 ECPA Memoir/Biography of the Year, I've Seen the End of You: https://amzn.to/42fqKn0 My book, Hope Is the First Dose: https://amzn.to/3mAqGLG. Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here: https://bit.ly/3Xc26iW. (Get my free Thought Biopsy Worksheet when you subscribe!) *The School of Self-Brain Surgery here! Sign up for our first full length course, Self-Brain Surgery Transformation Training here: https://bit.ly/4aipO3L. You can get a taste for free by taking my powerful 3-part video training course, You Can Change Your Life. Get instant access for free by clicking here: https://bit.ly/4qA5Hou.*