What Your Body Knows about God : How We Are Designed to Connect, Serve, and Thrive

Have you ever had an experience where you felt particularlyaware of God? If God is real and we are created in God's image, then it makessense that our minds and bodies would be designed with the perceptive abilityto sense and experience God.Scientists are now discovering ways that our bodies aredesigned to connect with God. Research shows that our brain systems are wiredto enable us to have spiritual experiences. The spiritual circuits that areused in prayer or worship are also involved in developing compassion forothers. Our bodies have actually been created to love God and serve ourneighbors.Award-winning journalist Rob Moll chronicles the fascinatingways in which our brains and bodies interact with God and spiritual realities.He reports on neuroscience findings that show how our brains actually changeand adapt when engaged in spiritual practices. We live longer, healthier,happier, and more fulfilling lives when we cultivate the biological spiritualcapacity that puts us in touch with God. God has created our bodies to fulfillthe Great Commandment; we are hardwired to commune with God and to have compassionand community with other people. Moll explores the neuroscience of prayer, howliturgy helps us worship, why loving God causes us to love others, and how alife of love and service leads to the abundant life for which we were created.Just as our physical bodies require exercise to stayhealthy, so too can spiritual exercises and practices revitalize our awarenessof God. Heighten your spiritual senses and discover how you have been designedfor physical and spiritual flourishing.