Bright Morning Star
February 2022
Hello.
Upon waking, the first thing I see out my bedroom window is a bright, beautiful star hanging on the horizon. The Morning Star, as it’s known, has such presence and beauty I find myself looking for it each morning.
To ‘Lead with Love’ is a lifelong process. Much like seeking the strength of the morning star, the daily intention to Lead with Love can be the north point on one’s Compass of Life.
For many years, Gina and the crew at Lead with Love have been hosting Summits, Workplace Wellbeing courses, and speakers who bring the message of interconnectedness and wellbeing to the community. LWL has worked to create environments where the felt experience of being loved, guided, and never alone showered over every participant. The foundational message was that we can create a culture that holds all life sacred and recognizes our stewardship for and with each other as part of the living fabric of the Universe.
This message has long been questioned as real. Many of us who have chosen to seek a spiritual path of sacred presence in and through our relationship with fellow living beings have felt the lack of legitimacy for this kind of thinking. Spirituality is invisible and thus hard to identify or quantify in matter, keeping its existence veiled and invalidated… until now.
Lead with Love is beyond grateful to be working alongside Dr. Lisa Miller and Columbia University to share, practice, and integrate their findings on the Science of Spirituality. Lisa’s team set out years ago to see if they could identify spirituality in our physiology. After years of conducting scientific research and fMRI brain scans, Lisa’s team was astounded by the results. They identified three regions of the brain where significant cortical thickening (processing capacity) was observed as a result of a lived spirituality. These were in the areas of perception, reflection, and orientation. The composite scan of the high spiritual brain was thicker and stronger in the exact regions of the brain that weaken and wither in depressed brains.
Dr. Lisa Miller and her team at Columbia University were able to conclude that we are hardwired for spirituality and that we have an innate capacity to connect to life at a deeper interconnected level. The Science of Spirituality shows the developmental necessity that is foundational to our health and wellbeing.
We are living at a breakthrough moment in human development. We are hardwired to identify the relational bond itself as sacred, which widely extends beyond humans to include a sense of sacred presence in and through our relationships with all fellow living beings. Once we accept this truth as part of our genetic makeup, we can begin to practice and apply the concept in our daily lives – with ourselves, our families, our colleagues, our communities, the natural world, and beyond. We do not know where that will take us, but to set the daily intention to ‘Lead with Love’, to seek, find and value the dignity in all life, puts us in ‘right relationship’ with life, and our path forward will unfold from there.
We hope you will join us on this journey.
To know oneself as ‘something’ is a limiting position; to know oneself as ‘nothing’ is a position of understanding; to know oneself as ‘everything’ is a position of love. – Rupert Spira