Sensory metaphors activate brain parts for relevant sensory experience

This looks like the neurological confirmation Lakoff and Johnson hoped for in Philosophy in th Flesh.

"We see that metaphors are engaging the areas of the cerebral cortex involved in sensory responses even though the metaphors are quite familiar," says senior author Krish Sathian, MD, PhD, professor of neurology, rehabilitation medicine, and psychology at Emory University. "This result illustrates how we draw upon sensory experiences to achieve understanding of metaphorical language

Bodily experience is deeply at the heart of our ability to think. Wholistic -dare I say incarnational- approaches are affirmed. What it suggest furhter to me is that the value in enacted/embodied prayer and ritual actions are likely to be quite deeply felt if they are well targetted.

Hearing metaphors activates brain regions involved in sensory experience: