for some of us to wake up we need a wake-up call the latest research in
epigenetics says that it's the environment that signals the gene jeans
are like Christmas tree lights are turning on and off all the time
genes make proteins and proteins are responsible for the structure and
function of your body the expression of proteins is the expression of life but
if you're interpreting your environment the same way every single day you're
thinking the same thoughts demonstrating the same behaviors living by the same
emotions you keep the same genes on and the other genes off throw in the
hormones of stress which really down regulates genes to create disease then
as the question is if the environment signals the gene and the end product of
an experience in your environment is called an emotion if you live by the
same emotions every single day your body's believing it's in the same past
environmental experience over and over again and now you're headed for a
genetic destiny so then can you signal the gene ahead of the environment and
the answer is absolutely yes because when you begin to embrace an elevated
emotion and you combine it with a clear intention and you're totally in the
present moment your brain and body don't know the difference between what's going
on out there and what's going on in here your body believes it sends some
experience in the external environment that's producing that emotion and all of
a sudden the stronger the emotion you feel from an inward process the more you
pay attention to the thought or the image in your mind you're creating a
long-term memory and all of a sudden now you begin to down regulate the gene for
disease and you begin to upregulate the gene for health and that gene begins to
make a new protein and that protein begins to make a new hormone or a new
chemical or or expression of something a new chemical that is going to begin to
affect other systems in the body acute conditions our medicine is so great for
acute conditions you break your arm you have appendicitis you're not going
to go to an you puncture ist's you're gonna get
immediate care chronic conditions require a lifestyle change which means
you have to start making different choices you gotta start examining the
way you live your life and the choices you make and the thoughts you think and
and how you manage your emotions and so so the beauty behind all of this is that
just like an infection spreads amongst the community and creates disease once
people start breaking through and they wrap their mind around this health and
wellness can be as infectious as disease and we're seeing it happen in placebos
just so you know range from working anywhere from 10% to a hundred percent
imagine that so in a depression study as an example 83% or 81% of the people in a
depression study that are given a placebo heal as well as the people that
are given the actual antidepressants there's brain scans to show changes in
their brain before and after it means that they're making their own pharmacy
of antidepressants by thought alone and it took them six weeks eight weeks of
taking that placebo every single day now this is an important point because most
people think all I did I did the exercise or the meditation once and my
conditions should go away well even in freshen study six to eight
weeks of taking a placebo every time they take the placebo they remind
themselves that they're gonna get better it changes their emotional state sooner
or later that becomes their new state of being may take people six to eight weeks
of doing the work every single day where they start noticing significant changes
in their health so we have to go from food philosopher to initiate to master
from thinking to doing to be and once you get to that point where it now
becomes innate in you becomes who you are then you've memorized an internal
state independent of the conditions in your external environment that's when
you begin to master your environment or master your life
you