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Implementing The Energy of God
Is this an ignored frontier in restoring mental health?
When you hear the term “God”, it is filled with either passion for a Higher Being or disdain for the religious orthodoxies that people associate with guilt, suffering, or entrapment. Occasionally, people feel nothing at all, but that’s relatively rare. While the existence of God can be hotly debated to the point that some even contend that believers are “psychotic”, there are energies and characteristics of Gods that cut across many religions. What if you could choose your own belief, but rely on some of the characteristics of God that have scientific evidence backing up their utility. How might that change your mental health?
Awe
Researchers have suggested that awe is a potential pathway to improved mental health. Whether you are facing the Grand Canyon or a stormy ocean, awe tends to reduce self-awareness and liberates you from the preoccupations so characteristic of mental illness. Rumi once wrote, ““You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” In a sense, you are a fractal of what you see in an ocean, and as a result, experience an immense identification with it in its various mood states. Awe reduces activity in the “self” network in the brain.
