Full Description
Using science to know and embody your Soul for optimal health
• Explains how to connect with your Soul for inner guidance, peace, and an opportunity to reach your highest potential
• Offers integrative psychological, spiritual, and mind-body practices to help you reduce stress and your reactive behaviors, and reconnect with your higher consciousness
• Reveals your Soul's purpose through proven methodology and shows how to cultivate gratitude, compassion, and happiness by living an authentic life
Exploring the intersection of spirituality and neuroscience—utilizing both to optimize spiritual and mental health—psychiatrist and neuroscientist Helen Lavretsky shows that the evolution of the Soul is the purpose of life. Drawing on the latest research and examples from her clinical practice, Lavretsky helps you know and embody your Soul—a union that provides inner guidance, peace, balance, happiness, and an opportunity to reach your highest potential.
Lavretsky aims to put the psyche (soul) back into psychology using a proven methodology to enable you to control reactive behavior and reconnect with higher consciousness. She gives guidance on how to navigate challenges and spiritual emergencies, such as the Dark Night of the Soul, with enhanced intuitive abilities and clarity.
With clinical examples and more than 20 practical exercises, Lavretsky shows how you can incorporate the neuroscience of spiritual awakening to transform negative thoughts and feelings into a sense of excitement and curiosity. This will increase your ability to reduce stress, regulate negative emotions, improve your brain health, and cultivate gratitude, compassion, and a consistent sense of serenity and well-being by living a truly authentic life.
Contents
Preface
1 Finding My Soul's Path
2 In Search of the Soul Connection
3 Benefits of Knowing Your Soul
4 Learning to Speak the Soul's Language
5 The Science of Self-Regulation
6 Developing Intuition and Inner Guidance
7 Dealing with Trauma from a Soul's Perspective
8 Building Resilience with Mind-Body Medicine
9 Whole Person Health:
Lessons from Ancient Healing Practices
10 The Role of Beauty and Expressive Arts
11 Our Bodies Are of the Earth and
Souls Are of Heaven: Connecting with Nature
12 The Promise and Perils of Psychedelics
13 The Evolution of Consciousness Is upon Us
14 Technology from a Soul Perspective
15 Spiritual Emergencies
16 Is There a Happy Death?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
