Get in Touch With Your Spiritual Side
Episode 19: Marjorie Woollacott on Neuroscience & Spirituality
If you’ve ever wondered if there’s more to life than what you can see around you, you will find this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman to be very validating. Listen in as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Marjorie Woollacott, author of Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind.
“In that first moment, my heart told me there was something more to reality than my mind had really experienced.”
Show Notes:
Science or spirituality? Facts or faith? We often see these ideas as mutually exclusive. We either have both feet in the ground or our head in the clouds. What if they were both equally valid? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman (previously Woman Worriers) podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Marjorie Woollacott, PhD, an emeritus professor of human physiology, and member of the Institute of Neuroscience, at the University of Oregon. She is now president of the Academy of the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences. Listen in as they talk her spiritual awakening and how she aligned it with her career as a neuroscientist—and the lessons you can learn from her journey.
Listen and learn:
How a mantra can help shift your experience
How our peers and our own doubts can keep us from seeing a greater reality
Why many people give up on meditation too soon
How meditation changes the brain in very beneficial ways
How researching meditation, acupuncture, energy healing and similar topics made physiology students more open to the possibilities of complementary medicine
How the ideas of a physical body and an energy body can co-exist
What researchers found when they did a controlled study of Reiki and its impact on anxiety and depression
Why we should consider complementary medicine even though we don’t understand why it works
Why curiosity is key
Learn more:
Marjorie Woollacott’s website
Marjorie Woollacott, Author on Facebook
Marjorie Woollacott on LinkedIn
Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind by Marjorie Hines Woollacott
Guided meditations from Progression Counseling
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