Even me I was raised a Catholic and, for the most part, I was not interested in religion at all. Like many scientists, I think it is based on reason, thought, or hope, so it is not practical for my work. The project runs a psychology lab that focuses on finding solutions to humanity, using scientific tools to develop skills that can help people cope with life’s challenges. But in the 20 years since I started the project, I have noticed that many psychiatrists and psychologists are finding ways to change people’s beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors – how to help them deal with grief, how to help them become more virtuous, how to allow them to connect with happiness- it also highlights ideas and skills that religion has been using for centuries.
Science and religion often clash. But if we get rid of theology – the ideas of the nature of God, the creation of the universe, and so on — following the day-to-day practice of religious faith, the hatred of dissent will disappear. What is left is a series of traditions, customs, and ideas that are also the result of racial testing. For thousands of years, these experiments, which occur in a chaotic life as opposed to the barren landscape, have led to what we might call spiritual technologies – tools and techniques designed to sift, move, confirm, or change certain attitudes. And this scientific study has shown that certain religious groups, even if removed from the spiritual realm, can influence the minds of the people in the same ways that mad people want.
My lab has found, for example, that having a short-term Buddhist meditator makes them more sympathetic. After studying for eight weeks with a Buddhist, 50 percent of those we gave the opportunity to meditate on each day suddenly helped the stranger in pain. Only 16 percent of the uninitiated did the same. (To be honest, the guest was a player we hired to use a cane and put on a threshing floor in an attempt to find a seat in a crowded room.) Compassion was not limited to that. strangers, though; it also applies to enemies. Another learning showed that after three weeks of meditation, most people avoid retaliating against someone who makes fun of them, unlike most who have not meditated. As soon as my team saw this, we began to look for other links between our previous research and pre-existing religious traditions.
Appreciation, for example, is something we have carefully studied, and important in many religious matters. Christians often say grace before eating; The Jews thank God and Modi Ani prayer every day waking up. We learned to be grateful, even in foreign lands, and we found that it makes people better too. Mu learning where people can earn more money by falsifying financial results, the majority (53%) cheated. But the numbers dropped dramatically to the people we first asked to count their blessings. Of these, only 27 percent chose to lie. We have also seen that when people hear the praises of man, magic, or God, people live very helpful, very generous, and even very slow.
Even the most basic of tasks, such as traveling together for a while, have a profound effect on emotions. We see similarities in almost all religions around the world: Buddhists and Hindus often sing together in prayer; Christians and Muslims often kneel and stand united in worship; The Jews often travel, or mankhusu, reading the prayers together. These practices believe in a deeper purpose: to make connections. To see how it works, we asked a couple of guests to sit facing each other, put on headphones, and then press a device on the table in front of them whenever they heard a voice. For some of these pairs, the similarities are similar, meaning that they have been holding hands in harmony. For some, it was pointless, meaning that the movement of the hands could not be the same. Afterwards, we created a scenario for one of the two members to do a longer and harder job. Not only those who were moving their hands in unison feel very close contact with compassion for A friend who was now suffering, 50 percent of them decided to help each other – an increase of more than 18% who decided to help without socializing.
The integration of simple things like these – which change the way we feel, what we believe, and who we can trust – increases over time. And when it comes to religion, research has shown that it can be effective. Always taking part in religious activities reduces stress and frustration, increases health, and reduces premature death. This does not just happen because of socializing with ordinary people. There is something specific spiritual practices iwowo.