Did you know that altering the way you think, your perceptions your beliefs not only can change your outlook on life and emotions..but also changes your DNA? The changing and altering of human genes?
YES! Recent science studies have found this to be true..!
So change your perceptions and something deep inside you changes...that includes your DNA
Check out this article that I have found:
With
evidence growing that training the mind or inducing certain modes of
consciousness can have positive health effects, researchers have sought
to understand how these practices physically affect the body. A new
study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first
evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following a period of
intensive mindfulness practice.
The study investigated the effects of a day of intensive mindfulness
practice in a group of experienced meditators, compared to a group of
untrained control subjects who engaged in quiet non-meditative
activities. After eight hours of mindfulness practice, the meditators
showed a range of genetic and molecular differences, including altered
levels of gene-regulating machinery and reduced levels of
pro-inflammatory genes, which in turn correlated with faster physical
recovery from a stressful situation.
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that shows
rapid alterations in gene expression within subjects associated with
mindfulness meditation practice,” says study author Richard J. Davidson,
founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and the William
James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Most interestingly, the changes were observed in genes that are the
current targets of anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs,” says Perla
Kaliman, first author of the article and a researcher at the Institute
of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Spain (IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS), where
the molecular analyses were conducted.
The study was published in the Journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Mindfulness-based trainings have shown beneficial effects on
inflammatory disorders in prior clinical studies and are endorsed by the
American Heart Association as a preventative intervention. The new
results provide a possible biological mechanism for therapeutic effects.
Gene Activity Can Change According To Perception
According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, gene activity can change on a daily
basis. If the perception in your mind is reflected in the chemistry of
your body, and if your nervous system reads and interprets the
environment and then controls the blood’s chemistry, then you can
literally change the fate of your cells by altering your thoughts.
In fact, Dr. Lipton’s research illustrates that by changing your
perception, your mind can alter the activity of your genes and create
over thirty thousand variations of products from each gene. He gives
more detail by saying that the gene programs are contained within the
nucleus of the cell, and you can rewrite those genetic programs through
changing your blood chemistry.
In the simplest terms, this means that we need to change the way we
think if we are to heal cancer. “The function of the mind is to create
coherence between our beliefs and the reality we experience,” Dr. Lipton
said. “What that means is that your mind will adjust the body’s biology
and behavior to fit with your beliefs. If you’ve been told you’ll die
in six months and your mind believes it, you most likely will die in six
months. That’s called the nocebo effect, the result of a negative
thought, which is the opposite of the placebo effect, where healing is
mediated by a positive thought.”
That dynamic points to a three-party system: there’s the part of you
that swears it doesn’t want to die (the conscious mind), trumped by the
part that believes you will (the doctor’s prognosis mediated by the
subconscious mind), which then throws into gear the chemical reaction
(mediated by the brain’s chemistry) to make sure the body conforms to
the dominant belief.
(Neuroscience has recognized that the subconscious
controls 95 percent of our lives.)
Now what about the part that doesn’t want to die–the conscious mind?
Isn’t it impacting the body’s chemistry as well? Dr. Lipton said that it
comes down to how the subconscious mind, which contains our deepest
beliefs, has been programmed. It is these beliefs that ultimately cast
the deciding vote.
“It’s a complex situation,” said Dr. Lipton. People have been
programmed to believe that they’re victims and that they have no
control. We’re programmed from the start with our mother and father’s
beliefs. So, for instance, when we got sick, we were told by our parents
that we had to go to the doctor because the doctor is the authority
concerning our health. We all got the message throughout childhood that
doctors were the authority on health and that we were victims of bodily
forces beyond our ability to control. The joke, however, is that people
often get better while on the way to the doctor. That’s when the innate
ability for self-healing kicks in, another example of the placebo
effect.
Mindfulness Practice Specifically Affects Regulatory Pathways
The results of Davidson’s study show a down-regulation of genes that
have been implicated in inflammation. The affected genes include the
pro-inflammatory genes RIPK2 and COX2 as well as several histone
deacetylase (HDAC) genes, which regulate the activity of other genes
epigenetically by removing a type of chemical tag. What’s more, the
extent to which some of those genes were downregulated was associated
with faster cortisol recovery to a social stress test involving an
impromptu speech and tasks requiring mental calculations performed in
front of an audience and video camera.
Biologists have suspected for years that some kind of epigenetic
inheritance occurs at the cellular level. The different kinds of cells
in our bodies provide an example. Skin cells and brain cells have
different forms and functions, despite having exactly the same DNA.
There must be mechanisms–other than DNA–that make sure skin cells stay
skin cells when they divide.
Perhaps surprisingly, the researchers say, there was no difference in
the tested genes between the two groups of people at the start of the
study. The observed effects were seen only in the meditators following
mindfulness practice. In addition, several other DNA-modifying genes
showed no differences between groups, suggesting that the mindfulness
practice specifically affected certain regulatory pathways.
The key result is that meditators experienced genetic changes
following mindfulness practice that were not seen in the non-meditating
group after other quiet activities — an outcome providing proof of
principle that mindfulness practice can lead to epigenetic alterations
of the genome.
Previous studies in rodents and in people have shown dynamic
epigenetic responses to physical stimuli such as stress, diet, or
exercise within just a few hours.
“Our genes are quite dynamic in their expression and these results
suggest that the calmness of our mind can actually have a potential
influence on their expression,” Davidson says.
“The regulation of HDACs and inflammatory pathways may represent some
of the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic potential of
mindfulness-based interventions,” Kaliman says. “Our findings set the
foundation for future studies to further assess meditation strategies
for the treatment of chronic inflammatory conditions.”
Subconscious Beliefs Are Key
Too many positive thinkers know that thinking good thoughts–and
reciting affirmations for hours on end–doesn’t always bring about the
results that feel-good books promise.
Dr. Lipton didn’t argue this point, because positive thoughts come
from the conscious mind, while contradictory negative thoughts are
usually programmed in the more powerful subconscious mind.
“The major problem is that people are aware of their conscious
beliefs and behaviors, but not of subconscious beliefs and behaviors.
Most people don’t even acknowledge that their subconscious mind is at
play, when the fact is that the subconscious mind is a million times
more powerful than the conscious mind and that we operate 95 to 99
percent of our lives from subconscious programs.
“Your subconscious beliefs are working either for you or against you,
but the truth is that you are not controlling your life, because your
subconscious mind supersedes all conscious control. So when you are
trying to heal from a conscious level–citing affirmations and telling
yourself you’re healthy–there may be an invisible subconscious program
that’s sabotaging you.”
The power of the subconscious mind is elegantly revealed in people
expressing multiple personalities. While occupying the mind-set of one
personality, the individual may be severely allergic to strawberries.
Then, in experiencing the mind-set of another personality, he or she
eats them without consequence.
The new science of epigenetics promises that every person on the
planet has the opportunity to become who they really are, complete with
unimaginable power and the ability to operate from, and go for, the
highest possibilities, including healing our bodies and our culture and
living in peace.
Article sources:
wisc.edu
brucelipton.com
ts-si.org
Source: preventdisease.com
