These are the words of cell biologist, Bruce Lipton, during his insightful talk on the Hay House World Summit (free until 8th May).
Bruce Lipton
Bruce explains that the idea that genes control our character traits and that we are victims of our hereditary is now an old paradigm.
He states that perceptions of the world and our environment send information to our cells that can activate or deactivate our genes. So someone with a totally healthy set of genes but a negative perception of the world may be more prone to serious diseases due to a distorted readout of the genes.
Changing your beliefs can actually change your fate.
So instead of being a victim of our genetic makeup, we can influence our levels of healthy and wellbeing by changing our beliefs.
Through his research Bruce established that an unhealthy environment created unhealthy cells and a healthy environment created healthy cells. To create health in the unhealthy cells, he placed the cells in a healthy environment and they recovered. Humans made up of millions of cells therefore putting a human in a healthy environment creates a healthy human being.
According to Bruce, recent research found that less than 1% of illnesses are related to genes therefore most illnesses are our response to our environment.
The key is our perception to our environment, not the environment itself.
For example if different people experience an identical car crash, they won’t create the same feelings and thoughts about it. Here are some peoples possible responses. They may:
- experience extreme trauma and create the belief that cars are dangerous which will create fear causing the release of adrenalin when thinking about or going in a car.
- feel angry with the person who drove into them causing the crash and make it their life’s work to bring justice to the situation and maybe to others in a similar situation.
- feel sorry for themselves and may blame the fact that nothing is working in their lives and give up.
- dust themselves off and just get on with life knowing that these things happen and not to dwell on it.
Bruce also shares that a recent paper written by a genetics research scientist at UCLA says that our subjective perception of reality overrides the objective experience. He says that between the environment and the cells is your mind and nervous system. Your mind reads the environment and sends signals to the cells. So if one’s mind misinterprets the environment, for example it perceives it as threatening and scary even though it is not, the cells take on that information as truth as they don’t have direct access to the environment. So the cells respond to the chemistry from the brain. In the example above, if one has the belief that the cars are dangerous, it affects the chemistry of the body.
Through early childhood experiences we also create more global beliefs that may have a more blanket impact on our physiology. Some limiting ones may be:
- “The world is a dangerous place”
- “I’m not good enough”
- “I’m alone”
To change our fate we need to change our beliefs and Bruce mentions that one of the quickest most powerful ways to do that is through energy psychologies of which EFT is one of them. He lists several options on his website.
With EFT one can release negative beliefs by identifying specific events in one’s life where the belief was created or confirmed. Each event is identified and an EFT process is done on one or more of the events, as necessary, resulting in the belief dissolving and a new positive belief replacing it.
So for example if the belief that “I’m not good enough” is present, events that created or reinforced this might involve the following themes:
- having a sibling who appears to receive more attention that you – for example the time my dad praised my brother for winning a race in which I lost
- not living up to parents expectations – for example disappointing a parent with a school report
- school situations – for example being asked at school to answer a question that one doesn’t know
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