I'm too lazy to paraphrase the book I read, but Biology of Belief has some answers for you
Bruce Lipton has spent some time studying genetics, DNA and how DNA is activated in the cell. He backs up his understanding with the scientific method, and was once himself a materialistic scientist *he know believes in spirit*
Bruce came to a number of conclusions during his study
1. belief controls biology
DNA can not activate or do anything by itself. It just sits there, until the cell decides to mess with it. The single cell only messes with DNA accordingly to signals it receives in it's environment. And ONLY when it receives certain signals in the environment does it mess with DNA.
That may be a simple no brainer for a single celled organism living in a pond, but for a human being - with what - I forgot what the number was - a trillion celled community - were talking about something much more here
because, our thoughts and emotions translate to signals in the cells environment. our overall mental state of being directly affects how cells, our cells, interact with their own DNA
2. Sadly the truth, we give ourselves diseases
there are many diseases that are genetic. certain cancers are in the gene. but these genes are dormant at birth. and can remain dormant your entire life. in other words, just because you have a disease in your genes, it doesn't mean you're going to get sick
something in the cell's environment, your body, has to give a signal to the cell to express those dangerous cancer genes. cancer genes CAN NOT randomly express themselves. only a signal in the environment of which the cell reacts to.
the biggest question is....what? you can blame food or drinks, but plenty of Americans with cancer ate the same food and drinks as anyone else. It seems Lipton believes the real culprit to cancer is stress or depression. Stress and depression is on the rise in America, and so is cancer.
While Bruce isn't necessarily offering us a cure, he is at least outlining the necessary steps you need to take to be disease free. Healthy and happy. That is, remain in a peaceful happy state of mind
3. How our Beliefs Control Biology
Why does Bruce believe, Beliefs control Biology? And not just our emotional state of being?
Just like the cell, we perceive our environment, and we also get signals from our environment. We call these signals light, smell, texture - but it's really the same mechanics as the cell. We 'perceive' the environment and react. Cells do the same thing.
But for a complex human, our perception also includes beliefs. Let's say someone plops a snake on your lap without you asking. Most people would immediately scream and be in flight or fight mode. Because they believe on a subconscious level that snakes mean death. And before they can even reason whether or not the snake actually is harmless - they are already physically reacting as if under attack, all because of a belief.
But there are a fair few of strange individuals *snake lovers*, that would scream with glee and joy. Because maybe randomly plopping a snake on their lap would be a birthday present.
The point is, we have these beliefs locked away in our subconscious mind. And it's the belief in the subconscious mind that Bruce is really talking about. While it's necessary for us to live, and to immediately react to real danger, we also take on FALSE belief systems from our parents and society.
One FALSE belief system that an entire generation of people took, was that we have NO CONTROL over our body. Bruce has proven this ideology - wrong. We do control our body, more than any current medical book will tell you.
4. All DNA is flexible
Bruce explains that our DNA doesn't have enough 'words' to make up a human being. But it does have plenty of 'letters' that can create enough 'words' to create a human.
Because DNA is more like the alphabet than a dictionary, this makes it flexible. And Bruce believes this is the key to understanding evolution. DNA is flexible. It isn't set. The single cell can actually create new 'words'. And we see this happen in bacteria. These new 'words' are the mutations that create evolution. But they WEREN'T RANDOM. (Bruce backs this up with an experiment that proves that mutations aren't random) The cell created those 'new words' accordingly to signals in the environment.
Now tie this in with the previous understanding that ONLY SIGNALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT can activate and manipulate DNA. Our mental and emotional state of being. New Agers have been harping that we can consciously evolve. Bruce, who used to think they wer quacks, now believes science is actually backing up their claims.......We can conscioulsy evovlve.
It's also important to understand the huge role the environment plays in evolution. . . . . . . . . But what kind of evolution can we expect in the environment humanity has created??
5. There are limitations to Evolution
Bruce explains how DNA is most flexible in the womb. It is in the womb that evolution really takes place. The fetus receives environmental signals from it's mother. The fetus then grows accordingly to those signals. This is so the child can be better prepared for it's environment than it's own mother who might have been born to a previous out-dated environment
But it seems at some point in time our DNA becomes more or less set. And while Bruce believes we can take part in our own evolution, that is change our DNA - the end result is actually seen in our children. As most of you probably already know, mutations in our life time probably just cause cancer.
6. Our IDENTITY and DNA are different
Bruce became a believer that we have some part of our being, that is not physically located in one spot. Call it spirit, call it the soul, or call it a field of energy. Bruce goes on to explain how there are two ways the cell can recieve information/signals.
Chemical - which is slow.....Or energy. I forgot what kind of energy, but Bruce makes it clear for our trillion celled community chemical signals are too slow for us to function. That we have an energy field. That this energy field can be detected with machinery. And, this energy field gives signals to our cells.
Bruce talks about how each of our cells has these nodes, these detectors that pick up, literally like a radio, our identity. This idenity is in the 'environment'. It is NOT within the cell. While Bruce loves his cells, he even calls them 'smart', he does not think a single cell is smart enough to decide whether or not it likes pizza. Such idenity is picked up by the cell from the environment.
That's easy enough to understand, since we are sending signals to our cells all the time. But why does Bruce believe this translates to a 'soul'?
Transplants. It's a long story, but story short. Organs from a deceased individual seem to continue to pick up the identity signals from the environment...........even if they are placed in someone elses body. The brain isn't ticking anymore. The brain is DEAD. But the organs are still receiving identity signals from some where. This is when Bruce went from Materialist to Spiritualist. We have an immortal soul. And our bodies are constantly recieving information from our soul.
7. Why you CAN'T change your hair color
To answer your original question. The answer is NO. While we do have control over our biology, and while evolution can happen in a single generation, and while our bodies pick up and recieve our identity as information - your face is not going to magically change into someone elses
There is a real limit to the interaction of consciousness and DNA. While your DNA 'words' are not set, your DNA 'alphabet' is. You can NOT change the alphabet of your DNA.
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