Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

If you look at people who are more faithful, they are less depressed.

They are more optimistic for the future.

They have better emotional processing.

They're able to deal.

They're more resilient.

They live longer.

And there's many different forms of disease that are associated with lower risk.

And to bring it full circle and not to like turn this into a science lesson, because I actually love where we went with this, but there still is like the faith in the science.

they're both there and that's okay because they can both exist yes and and the science says that what's happening whether it's through our spiritual practices reading the bible

attending a service, singing in synchrony with other people, right?

Spiritual music, dancing.

Chanting, things like that.

All these things, they're activations of the parasympathetic nervous system, which is the rest, digest, and I feel safe.

Yes.

Part that is the counterpoint to the sympathetic.

So we talked about the sympathetic being activation.

Now I'm saying safety exists.

Safety and healing exist in your parasympathetic.

So those are examples, but then in our human connection,

Holding hands, hugging, feeling bonded to your partner, intimacy with a partner that you actually love, not just, it's not sport.