Spirituality Spot Found in Brain

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Spirituality Spot Found in Brain - Yahoo! News

Spiritual outlooks have long been associated with better mental and physical health. These benefits, Johnstone speculated, may stem from being focused less on one's self and more on others - a natural consequence of turning down the volume on the Me-Definer.

In addition to religious practices, other behaviors and experiences are known to hush the Definer of Me. Appreciation of art or nature can quiet it, Johnstone said, pointing out that people talk of "losing themselves" in a particularly beautiful song. Love, and even charity work, can also soften the boundaries of "Me," he said.

 

[Silence]

I wonder how they reconcile the fact that America in one of the fattest nations in the world with this study? are we a bunch of hethens?

 

[dilloduck]

I wonder how they reconcile the fact that America in one of the fattest nations in the world with this study? are we a bunch of hethens?

We probably are according to several religious religious beliefs. We ain't really a country that's into self denial or sacrifice anymore.