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Refresh the Soul offers soul‑centered writing on spirituality, self‑improvement, meditations, affirmations, and life lessons. We invite readers of all backgrounds to pause, reflect, and rejuvenate their hearts. May your soul be refreshed.

SPIRITUALITY MEETS NEUROSCIENCE

What Is Neuroscience? And How Does It Ignite the Soul’s Sacred Path?

Exploring how brain science and spirituality spark healing, clarity, and wonder together

7 min readSep 30, 2025

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 Exploring how brain science and spirituality together spark healing, clarity, and wonder
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Science and spirituality have long been cast as rivals, staring at one another across a divide. What if they’re not so opposite? What if they’re more like siblings or best friends who help each other? More importantly, they help you.

While one measures synapses and scans the brain’s electrical storms, the other listens for silence, bows in prayer, and seeks mystery. Just writing that makes me think they are still opposite, but let’s explore further because the two share a common language.

Neuroscience maps pathways of thought, stress, and rest, and has begun to echo what poets, mystics, and faith traditions have whispered for ages, which is that stillness heals, prayer transforms, and renewal is woven into our very design.

Most recently, I have been curious about the intersection of spirituality and neuroscience. As someone who has been through childhood trauma that has broken my body into pieces, stressor by stressor, I have had to learn how to use different resources of spirituality to help me just get out of bed every morning…

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Refresh the Soul
Refresh the Soul

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Refresh the Soul offers soul‑centered writing on spirituality, self‑improvement, meditations, affirmations, and life lessons. We invite readers of all backgrounds to pause, reflect, and rejuvenate their hearts. May your soul be refreshed.

Nancy Blackman, MASF
Nancy Blackman, MASF

Written by Nancy Blackman, MASF

Boosted & 8x Top Writer. Owner: Refresh the Soul publication. Editor: Poetry Playground. Published in: “Mixed Korean: Our Stories" — Kindle.

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