It has been proven that faith heals and changes the genetic code of the body. Geneticists have proven that faith heals and changes the genetic code of the body Changes the genetic code
American geneticist Bruce Lipton claims that with the help of true faith, solely by the power of thought, a person is indeed able to get rid of any disease. And there is no mysticism in this: Lipton’s research has shown that directed mental influence can change... the genetic code of the body.
Over the years, Bruce Lipton specialized in the field of genetic engineering, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, and 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 subordinated 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.
The turning point in Dr. Lipton's life and views was his experiments in the late 1980s to study the behavior of the cell membrane. Until then, science believed that it was the genes located in the cell nucleus that determined what should be passed through this membrane and what should not. However, Lipton's experiments clearly showed that various external influences on a cell can affect the behavior of genes and even lead to changes in their structure.
All that remained was to understand whether such changes could be made with the help of mental processes, or, more simply, with the power of thought.
Actually, I haven't come up with anything new, says Dr. Lipton. – For centuries, doctors have been well aware of the placebo effect – when a patient is offered a neutral substance, claiming that it is a miracle cure. As a result, the substance actually has a healing effect. But, oddly enough, there has still been no 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 the medicine, a person changes the processes taking place in his body, including at the molecular level. He can “turn off” some genes, force others to “turn on” and even change his genetic code. Following this, I thought about various cases of miraculous healing. Doctors always dismissed them. But in fact, even if we had only one such case, it should have forced doctors to think about its nature. And to suggest that if one person succeeded, then perhaps others will do the same.
Of course, academic science did not accept 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, 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, dooming their offspring to excess weight and short life. Then, with the help of a special diet, he ensured that these mice began to produce offspring that were completely different from their parents of normal color, thin and living as long as the rest of their relatives.
All this, you see, smacks of Lysenkoism, and therefore the negative attitude of academic scientists towards Lipton’s ideas was not difficult to predict. Nevertheless, he continued his 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, Lipton considers the main influence that can change the state of our health to be the power of thought, what happens not around us, but inside us.
This is also nothing new, Lipton says. – It has long been known that two people can have the same genetic predisposition to cancer, but one develops the disease and the other does not. Why? Yes, because they lived differently: one experienced stress more often than the other. They had different self-esteem and sense of self, which gave rise, accordingly, to different trains of thought. Today I can affirm that we are capable of controlling our biological nature; we can influence our genes with the help of thoughts, beliefs and aspirations. 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 mental instructions to the body for this. We do not have to be victims of our genetic code and life 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 illness”, “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% subconscious. Simply put, only a few of those who believe in the possibility of self-healing with the power of their brain actually actually believe in it - and therefore achieve success. Most people at the subconscious level deny this possibility. Even more precisely: their very subconscious, which, strictly speaking, controls all processes in our body on an automatic level, rejects this possibility. At the same time, it (again at the level of automatism) is usually guided by the principle that the likelihood that something positive will happen to us is much less than the further course of events in 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, when the most insignificant events, words intentionally or accidentally spoken by adults, punishments, traumas form the “experience of the subconscious” and, ultimately, a person’s personality. Moreover, the very nature of our psyche is designed in such a way that everything bad that happens to us is deposited in the subconscious much more easily than the memory of pleasant and joyful events. As a result, the “subconscious experience” of the vast majority of people consists of 70% “negative” and only 30% “positive”. Thus, to truly achieve self-healing, it is necessary to at least reverse this ratio. Only in this way can we break the barrier set by the subconscious mind against the intrusion of the power of our thoughts into cellular processes and the genetic code.
According to Lipton, the work of many psychics is precisely to break this barrier. But he suggests that a similar effect can be achieved through hypnosis and other methods. However, most of these methods are still waiting to be discovered. Or just widespread recognition.
After Lipton’s ideological revolution 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 goal of building bridges between traditional and alternative medicine. At the congresses and seminars he organizes, famous psychologists, doctors, biophysicists and biochemists sit next to all sorts of folk healers, psychics and even those who call themselves magicians or sorcerers. At the same time, the latter usually demonstrate their capabilities to the audience, and scientists brainstorm to try to explain them scientifically. And at the same time, they are thinking through future experiments that would help identify 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 psyche of the patient himself, or, if you like, magic and science, that Bruce Lipton sees as the main path for the further development of medicine. Whether he is right or wrong, time will tell.
When from time to time publications appear in the media about miraculous healing from a fatal disease using self-hypnosis, a special diet, bioenergy or some other unconventional method, skeptical smiles usually appear on the faces of doctors and scientists.
Even when we are talking about indisputable facts confirmed by modern research methods, traditional medicine either brushes them aside or tries to explain the patient’s unexpected recovery as an error in the initial diagnosis.
However, the American geneticist Bruce Lipton claims that with the help of true faith, solely by the power of thought, a person is indeed able to get rid of any disease. And there is no mysticism in this: Lipton’s research has shown that directed mental influence can change... the genetic code of the body.
“The placebo effect has not been canceled”
Over the years, Bruce Lipton specialized in the field of genetic engineering, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, and became the author of a number of studies. All this time, Lipton, like many geneticists and biochemists, believed that a person is a kind of biorobot, whose life is subordinated to a program written in his genes.
Bruce Lipton
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 we can only come to terms with what is predetermined by nature.
The turning point in Dr. Lipton's views was his experiments in the late 1980s to study the behavior of the cell membrane. Until then, science believed that it was the genes located in the cell nucleus that determined what should be passed through this membrane and what should not. However, Lipton's experiments showed that external influences on a cell can affect the behavior of genes and even lead to changes in their structure.
All that remained was to understand whether such changes could be made with the help of mental processes, or, more simply, with the power of thought.
“I didn’t really come up with anything new,” says Dr. Lipton. - For centuries, doctors have known about the placebo effect - when a patient is offered a neutral substance, claiming that it is a medicine. As a result, the substance actually has a healing effect. But, oddly enough, there has still been no scientific explanation for this phenomenon.
My discovery allowed me to give the following explanation: with the help of faith in the healing power of the medicine, a person changes the processes taking place in his body, including at the molecular level. He can “turn off” some genes, force others to “turn on” and even change his genetic code.
Following this, I thought about various cases of miraculous healing. Doctors always dismissed them. But in fact, even if we had only one such case, it should have forced doctors to think about its nature.
We are all in a hurry for miracles...
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, 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, dooming their offspring to excess weight and short life. Then, with the help of a special diet, he ensured that these mice began to produce offspring that were not similar to their parents - of normal color, thin and living as long as the rest of their relatives.
All this, you see, smacks of Lysenkoism, and therefore the negative attitude of academic scientists towards Lipton’s ideas was not difficult to predict. Nevertheless, he continued his 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. The scientific field that studies the influence of external influences on the genetic code is called “epigenetics”.
And yet, Lipton considers the main influence that can change the state of our health to be the power of thought, what happens not around us, but inside us.
It has long been known that two people can have the same genetic predisposition to cancer, says Lipton. - But in one the disease manifested itself, and in the other it did not. Why? Yes, because they lived differently: one experienced stress more often than the other; they had different self-esteem and sense of self, different trains of thought. Today I can affirm that we are capable of controlling our biological nature; we can influence our genes with the help of thoughts, beliefs and aspirations.
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 mental instructions to the body for this. We do not have to be victims of our genetic code and life circumstances.
Believe that you can be healed, and you will be cured of any disease. At first glance, everything is extremely simple. But only at first glance...
When consciousness is not enough...
If everything were so simple, then most people would easily solve any health problems by reciting simple mantras like “I can heal from this illness”, “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 believe in the possibility of self-healing with the power of their brain actually really believe in it - and therefore achieve success. Most people at the subconscious level deny this possibility.
Even more precisely: their very subconscious, which, strictly speaking, controls all processes in our body on an automatic level, rejects this possibility. At the same time, it (again at the level of automatism) is usually guided by the principle that the likelihood that something positive will happen to us is much less than the further course of events in 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, when the most insignificant events, words intentionally or accidentally spoken by adults, punishments, traumas form the “experience of the subconscious” and, ultimately, a person’s personality. Moreover, the very nature of our psyche is designed in such a way that everything bad that happens to us is deposited in the subconscious much more easily than the memory of pleasant and joyful events.
As a result, the “subconscious experience” of the vast majority of people consists of 70% “negative” and only 30% of “positive”. Thus, to truly achieve self-healing, it is necessary to at least reverse this ratio. Only in this way can we break the barrier set by the subconscious mind against the intrusion of the power of our thoughts into cellular processes and the genetic code.
According to Lipton, the work of many psychics is precisely to break this barrier. But he suggests that a similar effect can be achieved through hypnosis and other methods. However, most of these methods are still waiting to be discovered. Or just widespread recognition.
After Lipton’s ideological revolution 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 goal of building bridges between traditional and alternative medicine.
At the congresses and seminars he organizes, famous psychologists, doctors, biophysicists and biochemists sit next to all sorts of folk healers, psychics and even those who call themselves magicians or sorcerers. At the same time, the latter usually demonstrate their capabilities to the audience, and scientists brainstorm to try to explain them scientifically.
And at the same time, they are thinking through future experiments that would help identify 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 psyche of the patient himself, or, if you like, magic and science, that Bruce Lipton sees as the main path for the further development of medicine. Whether he is right or wrong, time will tell.
Yan SMELYANSKY
For a long time, scientists considered the human genome (all the hereditary material contained in a cell) to be something static and permanent. But in the last 30-40 years, the science of epigenetics has proven the opposite. “The genome is like a dynamic, living thing that is constantly growing, learning and adapting,” writes Katherine Shanahan, geneticist, biomechanist and bestselling author of The Smart Gene: What Food Your DNA Needs. — You may have heard that most diseases are caused by random mutations or “bad genes.” But epigenetics says this is not the case. If you need glasses, or have been diagnosed with cancer, or are aging faster than you should, then your genes are most likely completely normal, but they are not functioning well.”
What influences how genes work?
Literally everything we do, what we come into contact with, what we eat. “We can say that our lifestyle teaches genes how to behave. By choosing between healthy or unhealthy foods or habits, we program our genes for good or bad behavior,” comments Catherine Shanahan.
Moreover, diet plays a key role in this. “The tags that are placed on genes, control their function and help direct the course of evolution, consist of simple nutrients - minerals, vitamins and fatty acids. That is, there is almost no intermediary between what you eat and how your genes behave, and it is the behavior of your genes that determines what changes become permanent and heritable,” says Katherine.
The expert insists on regularly taking care of your own genome, which will help improve your well-being, health and protect your future children from many unpleasant diseases.
What diet improves your genes?
The one that contains a maximum of natural ingredients (familiar to the human body for thousands of years). The logic is simple: we know that they have a positive effect on the genome, otherwise they simply would not have survived as a species to this day.
1. Meat cooked on the bone.
2. Internal organs and tripe.
3. Fresh (raw) plant and animal products.
4. Fermented and sprouted foods.
“The importance of these categories is demonstrated simply by the fact that they are literally omnipresent,” comments Catherine Shanahan. “These categories have proven to be successful because they guarantee health and survival for their consumers.”
From the point of view of the content of useful substances, all these products complement each other perfectly.
* Meat on the bone contains many glycosaminoglycans (growth factors) and minerals (building materials for the skeleton). “This will keep your joints well-lubricated, prevent aging bones from breaking, and take care of your muscles,” says Katherine Shanahan.
* Domestic meat organs rich in fat-soluble vitamins. “And the brain and nervous tissue are a source of omega-3 and other fatty acids and phospholipids, the building blocks of the nervous system,” adds Katherine.
* Fresh plant food Naturally loaded with so many antioxidants that they will never survive the process of drying, heat treatment or packaging into capsules and bottles. The same applies to meat - which is why experts do not recommend subjecting it to long-term heat treatment, during which it loses many beneficial substances. The best cooking option is stewing.
* Fermented foods, full of probiotics, protects the gastrointestinal tract from pathogenic bacteria. Probiotics living in the intestines also produce a wide variety of vitamins, which helps compensate for possible deficiencies in the diet.
Changing human DNA that is passed on to future generations has long been considered ethically closed and prohibited in many countries. Scientists report they are using new tools to repair disease-causing genes in human embryos. Although the researchers are using defective embryos and do not intend to implant them into a woman's uterus, the work raises concerns.
Changing the DNA of human eggs, sperm or embryos is known as germinal alteration. Many scientists are calling for a moratorium on the review of clinical embryos, human germline editing, and many believe that this type of scientific activity should be prohibited.
However, editing the DNA of a human embryo may be ethically acceptable to prevent disease in the child, but only in rare cases and with guarantees. These situations may be a limited option for couples where they both have serious genetic conditions and for whom embryo editing is truly the last reasonable option if they want to have a healthy child.
The dangers of deliberately altering genes
Scientists believe that editing a human embryo may be acceptable to prevent a child from inheriting serious genetic diseases, but only if certain safety precautions and ethical criteria are met. For example, a couple may not have “reasonable alternatives,” such as choosing healthy embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF) or through prenatal testing and aborting a fetus with a disease. Another situation that may qualify is if both parents have the same medical conditions, such as cystic fibrosis.
Scientists warn of the need for strict government oversight to prevent germline editing from being used for other purposes, such as giving a child desirable, distinctive features.
By editing genes in patients' cells that are not inherited, clinical trials are already underway to combat HIV, hemophilia and leukemia. It is believed that existing regulatory systems for gene therapy are sufficient to carry out such work.
Genome editing should not be used to increase potency, increase muscle strength in a healthy person, or lower cholesterol levels.
Human germline gene editing, or human germline modification, refers to the deliberate modification of genes that is passed on to children and future generations.
In other words, creation of genetically modified people. Human germline modification has been considered a taboo topic for many years due to safety and social reasons. It is formally banned in more than 40 countries.
Experiments on creating genetically modified people and the science of eugenics
However, in recent years, experiments have been carried out with human embryos using new methods of genetic engineering. Genes and human embryos associated with beta blood disease - thalassemia - were used for research. The experiments were largely unsuccessful. But gene editing tools are being refined in laboratories around the world and are expected to make it easier, cheaper and more precise to edit or delete genes than ever before. Modern, yet theoretical methods of genome editing will allow scientists to insert, delete and correct DNA with positive results. This opens up the prospect of treating certain diseases, such as sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis and certain types of cancer.
Selection applied to humans – eugenics
Gene editing of human embryos or the direction of eugenics leads to the creation of genetically modified very different people. This raises serious safety concerns due to social and ethical issues. These range from the prospect of irreversible harm to the health of future children and generations to the opening of the door to new forms of social inequality, discrimination and conflict and a new era of eugenics.
The science of eugenics in human selection came into being in the middle of the last century as a Nazi science.
Scientists are not allowed to make changes to human DNA that is passed on to subsequent generations. Such an innovative move by the science of eugenics should only be considered after further research, after which changes can be carried out under strict restrictions. Such work should be prohibited to prevent serious illness and disability.
Variation caused by changes in genes is also called mutations.
It is a long-standing taboo to make changes to the genes of human sperm, eggs or embryos because such changes will be inherited by future generations. This is taboo in part because of fears that mistakes could inadvertently create new man-made diseases that could then become a permanent part of the human gene pool.
Another concern is that this species could be used for genetic modification for non-medical reasons. For example, scientists could theoretically try to create designer babies in which parents try to select their children's personality traits to make them smarter, taller, better athletes, or other supposedly necessary attributes.
Nothing like this is currently possible. But even the prospect raises the fear of scientists to significantly change the course of evolution and the creation of people who are considered genetically improved, to come up with dystopias of the future described in films and books.
Any attempt to create babies from sperm, eggs or embryos that have their own DNA and attempt to edit can only be done under very carefully controlled conditions and only to prevent a devastating disease.
It may be difficult to further draw the line between using gene editing to prevent or treat disease and using it to enhance a person's capabilities.
For example, if scientists can find that gene changes improve thinking abilities to fight off Alzheimer's dementia, then this could be considered preventive medicine. If you simply radically improve the memory of a healthy person, then this is no longer a medical direction.
When is it legal to change DNA?
The ability to edit genes could be used to treat many diseases and perhaps even prevent many devastating disorders from occurring in the first place by editing out genetic mutations in sperm, eggs and embryos. Some potential changes could prevent a wide range of diseases, including breast cancer, Tay-Sachs disease, sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease.
Gene editing clinical trials should be permitted if:
- there is no “reasonable alternative” to prevent “serious illness”
- it has been convincingly proven that genes, when edited, eliminate the cause of the disease
- changes are aimed only at transforming genes that are associated with normal health conditions
- sufficient preliminary research has been conducted on the risks and potential health benefits
- ongoing, rigorous oversight to examine the impact of the procedure on the health and safety of participants, as well as long-term comprehensive plans
- There is maximum transparency in accordance with patient confidentiality and reassessment of health, social benefits and risks
- There are strong surveillance mechanisms in place to prevent the spread of a serious disease or condition.
Proponents of human germline editing argue that it could potentially reduce, or even eliminate, the occurrence of many serious genetic diseases and reduce human suffering around the world. Opponents say altering human embryos is dangerous and unnatural, and does not take into account the consent of future generations.
Discussion on modification of the human embryo
Let's start with the objection that changing the embryo is unnatural or playing against God.
This argument is based on the premise that what is natural is inherently good.
But diseases are natural and millions of people get sick and die prematurely - everything is completely natural. If we only protected natural beings and natural phenomena, we would not be able to use antibiotics to kill bacteria or otherwise practice medicine or fight drought, famine, pestilence. The healthcare system is being run in every developed country and can rightly be described as part of a comprehensive attempt to thwart the course of nature. Which is naturally neither good nor bad. Natural substances or natural treatments are better, if they are possible, of course.
Leads to an important moment in the history of medicine and genome editing and represents promising scientific endeavors for the benefit of all humanity.
Intervention in the human genome is allowed only for preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic purposes and without modifications for descendants.
Rapid advances in the field of so-called “designer babies” genetics increase the need for bioethics to engage in broader public debate and debate about the power of science. Science is able to genetically modify human embryos in the laboratory to control inherited traits such as appearance and intelligence.
As of now, many countries have signed an international convention prohibiting this type of gene editing and DNA modification.
American geneticist Bruce Lipton claims that with the help of true faith, solely by the power of thought, a person is indeed able to get rid of any disease. And there is no mysticism in this: Lipton’s research has shown that directed mental influence can change... the genetic code of the body.
Over the years, Bruce Lipton specialized in the field of genetic engineering, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, and 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 subordinated 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.
The turning point in Dr. Lipton's life and views was his experiments in the late 1980s to study the behavior of the cell membrane. Until then, science believed that it was the genes located in the cell nucleus that determined what should be passed through this membrane and what should not. However, Lipton's experiments clearly showed that various external influences on a cell can affect the behavior of genes and even lead to changes in their structure.
All that remained was to understand whether such changes could be made with the help of mental processes, or, more simply, with the power of thought.
“In essence, I didn’t come up with anything new,” says Dr. Lipton. – For centuries, doctors have been well aware of the placebo effect – when a patient is offered a neutral substance, claiming that it is a miracle cure. As a result, the substance actually has a healing effect. But, oddly enough, there has still been no 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 the medicine, a person changes the processes taking place in his body, including at the molecular level. He can “turn off” some genes, force others to “turn on” and even change his genetic code. Following this, I thought about various cases of miraculous healing. Doctors always dismissed them. But in fact, even if we had only one such case, it should have forced doctors to think about its nature. And to suggest that if one person succeeded, then perhaps others will do the same.
Of course, academic science did not accept 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, 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, dooming their offspring to excess weight and short life. Then, with the help of a special diet, he ensured that these mice began to produce offspring completely different from their parents - normal color, thin and living as long as the rest of their relatives.
All this, you see, smacks of Lysenkoism, and therefore the negative attitude of academic scientists towards Lipton’s ideas was not difficult to predict. Nevertheless, he continued his 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, Lipton considers the main influence that can change the state of our health to be the power of thought, what happens not around us, but inside us.
“This is also nothing new,” says Lipton. – It has long been known that two people can have the same genetic predisposition to cancer, but one develops the disease and the other does not. Why? Yes, because they lived differently: one experienced stress more often than the other; they had different self-esteem and sense of self, which gave rise, accordingly, to different trains of thought. Today I can affirm that we are capable of controlling our biological nature; we can influence our genes with the help of thoughts, beliefs and aspirations. 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 mental instructions to the body for this. We do not have to be victims of our genetic code and life 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 illness”, “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 believe in the possibility of self-healing with the power of their brain actually actually believe in it - and therefore achieve success. Most people at the subconscious level deny this possibility. Even more precisely: their very subconscious, which, strictly speaking, controls all processes in our body on an automatic level, rejects this possibility. At the same time, it (again at the level of automatism) is usually guided by the principle that the likelihood that something positive will happen to us is much less than the further course of events in 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, when the most insignificant events, words intentionally or accidentally spoken by adults, punishments, traumas form the “experience of the subconscious” and, ultimately, a person’s personality. Moreover, the very nature of our psyche is designed in such a way that everything bad that happens to us is deposited in the subconscious much more easily than the memory of pleasant and joyful events. As a result, the “subconscious experience” of the vast majority of people consists of 70% “negative” and only 30% of “positive”. Thus, to truly achieve self-healing, it is necessary to at least reverse this ratio. Only in this way can we break the barrier set by the subconscious mind against the intrusion of the power of our thoughts into cellular processes and the genetic code.
According to Lipton, the work of many psychics is precisely to break this barrier. But he suggests that a similar effect can be achieved through hypnosis and other methods. However, most of these methods are still waiting to be discovered. Or just widespread recognition.
After Lipton’s ideological revolution 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 goal of building bridges between traditional and alternative medicine. At the congresses and seminars he organizes, famous psychologists, doctors, biophysicists and biochemists sit next to all sorts of folk healers, psychics and even those who call themselves magicians or sorcerers. At the same time, the latter usually demonstrate their capabilities to the audience, and scientists brainstorm to try to explain them scientifically. And at the same time, they are thinking through future experiments that would help identify 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 psyche of the patient himself, or, if you like, magic and science, that Bruce Lipton sees as the main path for the further development of medicine. Whether he is right or wrong, time will tell.
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