How God Changes Your Brain

God is great--for your mental physical and spiritual health. Based on new evidence culled from brain-scan studies a wide-reaching survey of people's religious and spiritual experiences and the authors' analyses of adult drawings of God neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and therapist Mark Robert Waldman offer the following breakthrough discoveries: <p/>- Not only do prayer and spiritual practice reduce stress but just twelve minutes of meditation per day may slow down the aging process.<br>- Contemplating a loving God rather than a punitive God reduces anxiety and depression and increases feelings of security compassion and love.<br>- Fundamentalism in and of itself can be personally beneficial but the prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage your brain.<br>- Intense prayer and meditation permanently change numerous structures and functions in the brain altering your values and the way you perceive reality. <p/>Both a revelatory work of modern science and a practical guide for readers to enhance their physical and emotional health <b>How God Changes Your Brain</b> is a first-of-a-kind book about faith that is as credible as it is inspiring.<br>