In our body, trillions of cells communicate with each other. These cells are affected by what we drink, eat or breathe. We can basically define humans by the summation of the behaviour of all cells.
These very cells are surrounded by laws of physics and energy rather than genes. It is interesting to notice that we can practically modify our genes by simple changing our diet and environment. These ostensible changes in lifestyle can benefit our as well as future generations in terms of better health.
Our body is complex, and it is hard to comprehend how our cells react to perception, thought and feelings. It can be said that personal empowerment accounts for how we appear, feel and even how long we will live. The presence of hereditary diseases is relatively much lower than we think. Only 5 percent of cardiovascular disease and cancer are hereditary.
In a popular book entitled: Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruch H. Lipton gives a full-fledge account on the fundamentals of human biology. He says that the notion pinpointing genes to influence our life is a fallacy, and genes aren’t activated or deactivated by coincidence. The mind is responsible for how gene operates within our bio-chemistry.
For instance, if a cell is dying, it is best to analyze the cell environment instead of the cell itself for the cause (s). A health environment would support the cell to function properly. In biology a change in the environment is connected to our DNA, RNA and the final results is the extraction of a protein.
Analogue of the Human Body to a Personal Computer
According to Dr. Lipton Cell’s membrane is what really influences cellular life. So to comprehend biological mechanisms it is fundamental to delve into the membrane. – In other words, how your body instigates environmental signals that lead to various behaviours and thoughts.
The Cell membrane can be compared to a Silicon chip found in a computer. We can thus project the possibility to programme cells. Another interesting point is that we are all programmers, consciously or unconsciously. Our cell nucleus is as a memory disk, which has the necessary DNA programs to produce proteins controlling our biochemistry.
Our cell receptors are like the keyboard. They allow data to be entered into the membrane’s effector proteins. This comparatively represents our Cell’s Central Processing Unit (The CPU of a computer). The environmental information is through the cell receptors passed to the CPU to produce behaviours. We can very easily change or modify the data, which is injected into our bio-computer. It is all about inputs of thoughts akin to typing on a keyboard.
We shouldn’t ignore that our mind has various subdivisions like the conscious and unconscious areas. The conscious mind can easily be influenced while the subconscious mind is rather a storage of learned experiences or instincts, which trigger similar attitude to common happenings. Like for example, a sudden noise can trigger fear amidst people.
However, our self-conscious mind is ingeniously strong. We are able to change behaviour by consciously programming new reactions. These programmed reactions can be derived from practically anything. For instance, if we adjourn to perceptions by others as being ‘true’ then their perception will be stored in our brain and become sub-conscious memories. If these thoughts are wrong, these programmed misperceptions integrated into our subconscious mind. These learnt experiences will limit our behaviours and can lead to negative environmental signals.
People must learn to harness the power to override the subconscious mind with the conscious one. This is the only way to derive free will over our biology.
What Dr. Lipton is trying to convey is that thoughts influence our biology.
In medicine the placebo effect is related to the belief or perception effect, denoted in the explanation. For instance, a study on Arthritic knees found that patient receiving surgery as well as for those receiving fake surgeries (placebo effect) was equally cured. Another study for six popular antidepressant demonstrated that sugar pills were equally effective. These are only a few examples to mention how belief influences our biology.
When positive thoughts improve our health it is called the placebo effect. On the other hand, when negative thoughts cause destruction to our health, it is called nocebo effect. A Doctor has the power to instigate both the nocebo and the placebo effects simply through words. In simple terms, when a doctor communicates with a patient it influences the patient’s thoughts and equally his/her chance to recover.
When a message (in words) is decrypted and reach our cells, the result can be joy, happiness, love, sadness and other emotional states. The Biology of Belief explains how people can change restriction and be cured simply through the power of our conscious mind.
Fri, Nov 5, 2010
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