Spiritual environment change your brain

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Well, certainly the more people
listen to any particular idea

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the more that becomes part of
the way their brain thinks.

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And so if a person is going
to a church for example where

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they are espousing a great deal of love

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and compassion and loving your
neighbor and loving your enemies

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and feeling joy
and feeling the love of God

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then those are the feelings that
continue to suffuse who you are

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and they change your brain
to feel those positive feelings

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and you actually even feel
it in your body itself.

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Whereas if you're sitting there

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and somebody is telling
you about hating your enemy

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and killing those people
who don't feel the way that we feel

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then that fosters anger and anxiety
and stress within the brain.

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It turns on the limbic areas

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and the autonomic nervous system to get
ready for that fight or flight response.

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And if it happens over
a long periods of time

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then those particular connections in
the brain become stronger and stronger

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stronger at the world very much in an us versus them

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with anger and hatred.

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And it becomes certainly much harder
to redirect that kind of an individual

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into a much more positive
way of thinking about things.

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That can be done.
But it's not easy.