The power of thought changes a person's genetic code

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Over the years, Bruce Lipton specialized in genetic engineering, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, became the author of a number of studies that brought him fame in academic circles. In his own words, all this time Lipton, like many geneticists and biochemists, believed that a person is a kind of biorobot, whose life is subject to a program written in his genes. From this point of view, genes determine almost everything: features of appearance, abilities and temperament, predisposition to certain diseases and, ultimately, life expectancy. No one can change their personal genetic code, which means that by and large we can only come to terms with what is predetermined by nature.

A turning point in the life and in the views of Dr. Lipton was the experiments he conducted in the late 1980s to study the characteristics of the behavior of the cell membrane. Prior to that, in science it was believed that it was the genes located in the cell nucleus that determine what should be passed through this membrane and what should not. However, Lipton's experiments clearly showed that various external influences on the cell can influence the behavior of genes and even lead to a change in their structure.

All that remained was to understand whether such changes could be made with the help of mental processes, or, more simply, by the power of thought.

“Basically, I haven’t come up with anything new,” says Dr. Lipton. - For centuries, physicians have known the placebo effect - when a patient is offered a neutral substance, claiming that it is a miracle cure. As a result, the substance does indeed have a healing effect. But, oddly enough, there has not yet been a truly scientific explanation for this phenomenon. My discovery allowed me to give the following explanation: with the help of faith in the healing power of a medicine, a person changes the processes going on in his body, including at the molecular level. He can "turn off" some genes, make others "turn on" and even change his genetic code. Following this, I thought about various cases of miraculous healing. Doctors have always dismissed them. But in fact, even if we only had one such case, it should have made doctors think about its nature. And to suggest that if one succeeded, then perhaps others will do the same.

Of course, academic science took these views of Bruce Lipton with hostility. However, he continued his research, during which he consistently proved that without any drugs it is quite possible to influence the genetic system of the body.

Including, by the way, and with the help of a specially selected diet. So, for one of his experiments, Lipton bred a breed of yellow mice with congenital genetic defects that condemn their offspring to overweight and short life. Then, with the help of a special diet, he achieved that these mice began to give birth to offspring that were completely different from their parents - of an ordinary color, thin and living as long as their other relatives.

All this, you see, gives off Lysenkoism, and therefore it was not difficult to predict the negative attitude of academic scientists to Lipton's ideas. Nevertheless, he continued experiments and proved that a similar effect on genes can be achieved with the help of, say, the influence of a strong psychic or through certain physical exercises. A new scientific direction that studies the influence of external influences on the genetic code is called "epigenetics".

And yet the main influence that can change the state of our health, Lipton considers precisely the power of thought, what is happening not around, but inside us.

“That’s nothing new either,” Lipton says. - It has long been known that two people can have the same genetic predisposition to cancer, but one has the disease, and the other does not. Why? Because they lived in different ways: one experienced stress more often than the other; they had different self-esteem and sense of self, which gave rise, respectively, and a different line of thought. Today I can say that we are able to control our biological nature; we can influence our genes through thought, faith and aspiration. The great difference between man and other creatures on Earth lies precisely in the fact that he can change his body, heal himself from fatal diseases and even get rid of hereditary diseases, giving the body mental attitudes towards this. We don't have to be victims of our genetic code and our circumstances. Believe that you can be healed and you will be cured of any disease. Believe that you can lose 50 kilograms - and you will lose weight!

At first glance, everything is extremely simple. But only at first glance…

If everything were so simple, then most people would easily solve any health problems by reciting simple mantras like “I can heal from this disease”, “I believe that my body is able to heal itself” …

But none of this happens, and, as Lipton explains, it cannot happen if mental attitudes penetrate only into the area of consciousness, which determines only 5% of our mental activity, without affecting the remaining 95% - the subconscious. Simply put, only a few of those who believed in the possibility of self-healing by the powers of their brain, in fact, really believe in it - and therefore achieve success. Most, on the subconscious level, deny this possibility. More precisely: their very subconscious, which, in fact, automatically controls all processes in our body, rejects such a possibility. At the same time, it (again at the level of automatism) is usually guided by the principle that the probability that something positive will happen to us is much less than the further course of events according to the worst case scenario.

According to Lipton, it is in this way that our subconscious begins to tune in during early childhood, from birth to six years old, when the most insignificant events, intentionally or accidentally spoken words by adults, punishments, traumas form the "experience of the subconscious" and, as a result, a person's personality. Moreover, the very nature of our psyche is arranged in such a way that everything bad that happens to us is deposited in the subconscious much easier than the memory of pleasant and joyful events. As a result, the "experience of the subconscious" for the overwhelming majority of people consists of 70% of "negative" and only 30% of "positive". Thus, in order to truly achieve self-healing, it is necessary at least to reverse this ratio. Only in this way can the barrier set by the subconscious mind be broken on the way of the invasion of the power of our thoughts into cellular processes and the genetic code.

According to Lipton, the job of many psychics is precisely to break down this barrier. But he suggests that a similar effect can be achieved with the help of hypnosis and other methods. However, most of these methods are still waiting to be discovered. Or just widespread acceptance.

After the worldview revolution that took place for Lipton about a quarter of a century ago, the scientist continued his research in the field of genetics, but at the same time became one of the active organizers of various international forums with the aim of building bridges between traditional and alternative medicine. At the congresses and seminars organized by him, famous psychologists, doctors, biophysicists and biochemists sit next to all kinds of folk healers, psychics and even those who call themselves magicians or sorcerers. At the same time, the latter usually demonstrate to the audience their capabilities, and scientists arrange a brainstorming session to try to explain them scientifically. And at the same time, they are thinking over future experiments that would help to reveal and explain the mechanism of the hidden reserves of our body.

It is in this symbiosis of esotericism and modern methods of treatment with the main reliance on the capabilities of the patient's psyche, or, if you like, magic and science, that Bruce Lipton sees the main path for the further development of medicine. And time will tell whether he is right or not.

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