The Biology of Belief Explained
Summary
TLDRThe video delves into Dr. Bruce Lipton's transformative research on epigenetics, challenging the deterministic view of DNA. It suggests that our environment and consciousness guide genetic expression, affecting our health. The script explores how our internal and external signals, including thoughts and feelings, influence cellular behavior. It also addresses the role of heredity, the impact of beliefs on health, and the potential for healing through positive consciousness. The video encourages viewers to take charge of their health and consider the importance of nurturing children's environment for future generations.
Takeaways
- 🧬 Dr. Bruce Lipton's research suggests that our consciousness and environment guide our genetics and life quality, challenging the traditional view of DNA as the sole controller.
- 🌟 The mind is likened to a government that can influence cells, with positive thoughts leading to health and negative ones to poor health.
- 🔬 Epigenetics, the study of gene expression changes due to environmental factors, is central to understanding how our experiences shape our genetic outcomes.
- 🧠 From conception to about age seven, children are highly receptive to external programming, which can influence their beliefs and self-perception.
- 🧫 In his stem cell experiments, Lipton found that identical cells expressed differently based on the environment, indicating that environment alters gene expression.
- 🌱 The power of the mind to heal is evident in the placebo effect, where belief in a treatment can lead to actual healing, highlighting the mind's influence on physical health.
- 🧐 The subconscious mind, which is shaped by early life experiences, plays a significant role in our health and well-being, suggesting the importance of early life environments.
- 💊 Big Pharma's influence on medical research can limit the exploration of ideas like epigenetics, as they may not align with the industry's financial interests.
- 🌟 The potential for healing and personal transformation is immense, but it requires a deep understanding and conscious effort to change subconscious programming.
- 📚 Education, particularly in early childhood, is crucial for shaping future generations, as it can either foster positive growth or perpetuate negative patterns.
Q & A
What is the main idea presented by Dr. Bruce Lipton's research?
-Dr. Bruce Lipton's research suggests that consciousness and the environment have a guiding effect on our genetics and the quality of our lives, challenging the deterministic view that DNA solely controls our cellular functions.
How does the quality of a signal affect cellular movement according to the script?
-The quality of a signal will determine the quality of the movement. This means that the nature of the external signals and how cells react to them dictate the cellular behavior and function.
What is the role of proteins in cellular movement as described in the script?
-Proteins, which make up the cells and resemble squiggly wire wraps, are responsible for cellular movement. When a signal is received by a protein, it facilitates its movement by changing the shape of the protein.
How does the script explain the process of digestion in relation to cellular movement?
-The script simplifies the process of digestion as a cellular movement facilitated by the reception of food bits by the body's cells, which then move in a process we recognize as digestion.
What is the significance of signals in the context of the script?
-Signals, which can be external or internal, are crucial as they influence gene expression. External signals like sounds or light, and internal signals like thoughts and feelings, can affect how genes are read and expressed.
How does the script relate the mind to a governing body that influences cells?
-The script compares the mind to a government that can enact policies, suggesting that compassionate and loving thoughts (a 'good government') send positive commands to cells, leading to health, while negative thoughts (a 'bad government') result in poor health.
What does the script suggest about the role of the environment in gene expression based on Dr. Lipton's stem cell research?
-Dr. Lipton's research indicates that the environment in which cells live can change how DNA is expressed. Even genetically identical cells can exhibit different characteristics based on the culture medium, or environment, they are placed in.
How does the script address the concept of heredity in relation to epigenetics?
-The script acknowledges that hereditary factors are still significant, citing a study where fear was encoded in genetic memory and passed down through generations via epigenetic changes like DNA methylation.
What is the potential impact of our beliefs and consciousness on our health according to the script?
-The script suggests that our beliefs and consciousness, by influencing the chemical signals in our bodies, can affect gene expression, leading to the production of either positive or negative chemicals that impact our health.
Why might Dr. Lipton's work not be widely discussed in the medical field as suggested by the script?
-The script implies that the medical field, particularly influenced by Big Pharma, may adhere to older models of thinking and that research funding often comes with constraints, which can limit the exploration and acceptance of new paradigms like Lipton's work.
What is the script's stance on integrating Western medicine with the understanding of epigenetics?
-The script advocates for an evolution of Western medicine to incorporate the insights of epigenetics, suggesting a complementary approach rather than a complete replacement, and emphasizes the importance of understanding and addressing subconscious beliefs for healing.
Outlines
🧬 The Impact of Consciousness and Environment on Genetics
The paragraph introduces the transformative work of Dr. Bruce Lipton, particularly his books 'The Biology of Belief' and 'The Honeymoon Effect', which have significantly influenced the Spirit Science community. Lipton's research suggests that consciousness and the environment play a crucial role in guiding our genetics and the quality of our lives. This concept aligns with Rupert Sheldrake's morphogenic field theory, which posits that consciousness is a guiding force behind gene expression. The paragraph challenges the traditional view of humans as deterministic beings controlled by DNA, instead proposing that external and internal signals are the primary movers of cells. It introduces the idea that the quality of signals received by cells determines their movement and behavior, which is a departure from the belief that DNA solely dictates cellular activity.
🌟 The Power of Mind and Epigenetics in Cellular Health
This section delves deeper into the concept that our thoughts and feelings, as internal signals, can influence our cellular health. It draws a parallel between the mind and a government that can enact policies affecting cellular behavior. Positive mental attitudes are likened to a 'good government' that promotes health, while negative ones lead to poor health outcomes. The discussion includes a reference to the movie 'Dr. Strange' to illustrate the idea that the mind can influence cellular regeneration beyond genetic programming. The paragraph then transitions into an exploration of epigenetics, starting with Lipton's early research on stem cells and their reactions to different environments. This research led to the discovery that environmental changes can alter gene expression, challenging the conventional belief in genetic determinism. The narrative also touches on the impact of early life experiences and beliefs on an individual's health and well-being, emphasizing the importance of mental programming in shaping our lives.
🧠 The Role of Epigenetics in Inherited Traits and Healing
The third paragraph expands on the concept of epigenetics, discussing how experiences can be encoded in genetic memory and passed down through generations. It cites a study where fear responses in mice were epigenetically inherited by their offspring, demonstrating that environmental influences can leave lasting genetic imprints. The paragraph suggests that our inherited traits, whether they are positive or negative, can be actively healed through conscious participation with our beliefs and environments. It highlights the importance of positive mental states in producing beneficial chemicals in the body, which can lead to better health and longevity. Conversely, it also points out the negative effects of fear and stress on cellular health. The paragraph concludes by discussing the limitations of conventional medicine and the need for a shift towards recognizing the power of consciousness in health and healing.
🌈 Integrating Science and Spirituality for Holistic Healing
The final paragraph emphasizes the convergence of scientific discoveries with spiritual practices, suggesting that our understanding of genetics and epigenetics can lead to a more holistic approach to health. It discusses the potential for individuals to take control of their health by changing their beliefs and environments, and cautions against the pitfalls of superficial positivity or self-blame for chronic conditions. The paragraph also touches on the importance of subconscious programming and the use of practices like meditation and affirmations for lasting change. It concludes by advocating for a complementary approach to healing that integrates both Western medicine and the principles of epigenetics, and encourages further exploration of Lipton's work for a deeper understanding of these concepts.
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Keywords
💡Consciousness
💡Epigenetics
💡DNA
💡Signaling
💡Protein
💡Morphogenic field theory
💡Placebo effect
💡Stem cells
💡Heredity
💡Environment
💡Beliefs
Highlights
Dr. Bruce Lipton's work has had a massive effect on understanding the role of consciousness and environment on genetics and life quality.
Consciousness plays a role as the guiding force behind how our genes are expressed, similar to Sheldrake's morphogenic field theory.
The human body, composed of trillions of cells, is viewed as a community of individual living entities.
Traditional science considered humans as deterministic robots controlled by DNA; Lipton's research challenges this paradigm.
Cell movement and behavior are primarily influenced by external signals and internal reactions to those signals.
Proteins within cells change shape in response to signals, which is key to processes like digestion.
DNA is not the sole controller of cell movement; signals from the environment play a significant role.
Signals can be anything from sound to light, and they are crucial for how our cells react and function.
Our thoughts and feelings are internal signals that can influence our cellular health and overall well-being.
The mind can enact policies on cells, similar to a government, with consciousness dictating health outcomes.
Epigenetics shows that environmental changes can alter gene expression, not just genetic code.
Children are highly receptive to external programming, which can shape their beliefs and influence gene expression.
Our beliefs and environments can actively rewire our state of existence and genetic expression.
Genes are like blueprints that can be read differently based on our consciousness and chemical signals.
Heredity still plays a role, but epigenetic changes can be passed down through generations without genetic alterations.
Positive and negative thoughts can have tangible effects on our cellular health and chemical balance.
The subconscious mind can be reprogrammed for healing through repetition, hypnosis, and subliminal messaging.
Lipton's work encourages a shift towards taking personal responsibility for health and understanding the power of consciousness.
Education and environment play a critical role in shaping children's beliefs and potential for enlightenment.
Transcripts
- [Narrator] If there is a heaven,
it's right here, right now.
We're in it.
Today we're delving into another one of those weird,
but wonderful topics that is taking the world by storm.
If you've been around this channel for a while,
or have attended any of our Spirit Mysteries workshops,
you've probably heard us mention the pioneering work
of Dr. Bruce Lipton, with his books,
"The Biology of Belief" and "The Honeymoon Effect".
Truth be told,
this work has had an absolutely massive effect
on all of us here at Spirit Science,
and we just had to do a full episode about it.
This is, of course,
following a recent Live Wisdom Moon Workshop,
which we presented on the Science of Ascension,
and went even more in depth on Bruce's discoveries.
We've made that available for free
in the author comments below, just in case you're curious.
(upbeat music)
- In a nutshell, Bruce's research suggests,
that consciousness and the environment have a guiding effect
on our genetics and the quality of our lives.
Much like Rupert Sheldrake's morphogenic field theory,
we're seeing interesting evidence
that consciousness plays a role as the guiding force
behind how our genes are expressed at all.
When you look in the mirror in the morning
and see yourself staring back, who are you really seeing?
The real you or a projection of your ego?
The human body is made up
of roughly 40 to 50 trillion cells,
each with their own singular immune
and reproductive systems.
Living together in a community called our body,
the cells are individual living entities
that make up the whole person.
For decades, science viewed ourselves
as deterministic little robots
who got their instruction strictly from the DNA.
But Bruce's research is transforming that paradigm rapidly.
Bruce explains that one of the main differences
between something living and something dead,
at least on a physical and biological level, is movement.
So, what causes a cell to move?
Going down this rabbit hole,
Bruce discovered that the key source
of what causes cells to move and behave,
actually comes mostly from external signals,
and the internal systems reacting to those signals.
Usually, the quality of the signal
will determine the quality of the movement.
At a deeper level than the cell,
we see that movement takes place
at the level of the protein.
cells are made up of proteins,
which appear a little bit like squiggly wire wraps.
As a signal comes in,
if there's a receptor for the signal, they will connect,
and the new energy received by the protein
will be a balanced polarity and facilitate its movement,
where the movement is actually just the changing
of the shape of the protein at all.
To give you a fun example,
we all know what digestion is, right?
You eat something and your body turns it into energy.
Well, digestion itself is a process
that works in the same way.
The cells in your body,
starting with your mouth and stomach,
are open to receiving all the time.
When you eat food,
the food bits are received by the cells of your body,
which facilitates their movement
in a process we call digestion.
I know this is a very simple way of explaining digestion,
but the point here is that for so long,
we've been led to believe
that the DNA was the thing that steered
and controlled the movements of the cell.
But this research is showing us that the movement
and control over the cells actually comes from signals.
So, in that case, what is a signal?
Literally everything.
Imagine you're walking down the street
and someone calls your name,
your ears just received a signal.
Even our name is just a collection of vibrations and sounds
that we assign relevance to,
which causes you to turn around and look.
Oh, no, it's your arch-nemesis,
Reginald von Brandybuck the third,
and he throws a baseball at your head.
Your eyes receive the signal,
the light bouncing off the ball
as it hurls towards your face,
causing you to react and move out of the way.
Calling back, love is the answer.
Don't be mean!
Here's an interesting part about signals.
In this example,
Reginald is operating at a lower level of consciousness,
so he isn't really listening to what you have to say.
You could even say that his cells aren't perceptive
to the intentions that you're sending him.
So he carries on with his negative attitude
and doesn't really hear or receive what you say about love.
See, unless we're receptive to the signals we're receiving,
we actively keep ourselves limited
to only receive the same thing over and over.
Now, this is where things get especially interesting,
because signals are not just external,
they're internal, too.
Thoughts are signals, feelings are signals.
They're signals that we tell ourselves
over and over as a result of our beliefs,
some of which we program ourselves with,
others of which we were programmed by our environment.
We explored this briefly as well in our money movie,
with "Think and Grow Rich".
One of the steps in "Think and Grow Rich"
was autosuggestion.
Continuing to steer your thoughts and focus
in the direction of wealth and abundance.
Because as you look for opportunities to personal success,
you open the receptors of your mind
to receive those signals, and this brings us
to the importance and significance of consciousness.
Bruce explains that the mind is similar to a government
which can enact policies to influence the cells.
If you have a good mental government,
i.e., compassionate and loving thoughts,
you get loving commands sent to the cells
and thus you have health,
but if you have a bad mental government,
you have poor health.
Do you remember that scene in Dr. Strange
when the Ancient One asked,
"When you reattach a severed nerve,
"is it you who puts it back together or the body?"
Stephen responds, "Well, it's the cells,"
to which the Ancient One replies,
"And the cells are only programmed
"to put themselves back in very specific ways,
"but what if I told you that your own body
"could be convinced to put itself back together
"in all sorts of ways?"
You see, it's significant for us today
because it encourages us to ask, just how much an influence
do our minds have on our bodies right down to cells?
And then, to go even deeper, the question becomes,
what programs the mind?
In order to understand the answer to this question,
we must explore the nature of epigenetics.
Bruce's work with epigenetics began nearly 50 years ago,
when he was first doing research into stem cells,
and how they would react in different culture mediums.
He first took a stem cell and put it in a Petri dish,
and through mitosis, the cell divided;
within 150 hours or so, there were around 30,000 cells,
all of which were genetically identical,
because they came from the same parent cell.
Then he split the identical cells
into three separate Petri dishes,
but changed the composition of the culture medium,
which can stand for the cells environment,
and found that in each dish,
the cells were expressed differently.
In one Petri dish, the stem cells became muscle tissue,
in another, bone cells, and lastly, fat cells.
This caused a very interesting question to come up.
If all of the cells were genetically identical
and contained the same material,
what controls how a cell is expressed?
What controls the fate of the cells?
He saw that the only thing different in each case
was the environment in which the cells were living.
Which meant that the cells
were adjusting to their environment,
leading to the critical and important discovery
that changing the environment,
potentially changes how the DNA is expressed.
In the world today, we have the conventional idea
that genes in our DNA are somehow active or not
depending entirely on our heredity.
The problem is,
this mentality actually makes us victims of our genes.
If we believe cancer runs in our family, we're gonna get it,
or at least have an increased risk of getting it.
Bruce explains that from the point of conception
up to about seven years old or so,
a child is really a sponge for external programming.
It's the reason why, if exposed to it,
a child can learn up to three languages independently
just by listening to them,
because their brains are actively in a deep receptive state,
downloading and installing information
from the world around them.
If a child is told over and over that they're worthless
and will amount to nothing,
then those mental patterns become solidified
by the age of eight and after,
and that ultimately dictates how they think
and view the world and themselves,
influencing the quality of their lives directly every moment
unless they do some serious mental rewiring.
But don't worry, there's good news to all of this too.
We can actively rewire and shift our state of existence
through working better ourselves.
We all know the success rate
and impacts of the placebo effect,
which heals ailments based on the belief in a fake medicine.
But the thing is,
the placebo is just the result of positive thinking.
So what kind of effects do you think
believing negative thoughts would have on us?
Both sides are equally powerful.
In reality, Bruce's work seems to suggest,
that genes are more like a blueprint
that can be read depending on the chemistry
and image you hold in your consciousness
rather than a determining factor from inside the DNA.
If you went to an architect's office
and ask if their blueprints were on or off,
they'd laugh at you,
and actually, it's basically the same with genes.
All of the genes are always on, but only certain ones
or parts of ones are being expressed at any given time.
And genetic expression happens when an old protein
in the cell dies and the cell requires a new one.
In a nutshell, the genes can be read in numerous ways
to produce different kinds of proteins or RNAs
that are the fundamental building blocks of the cells.
And it's the chemical signals that determines
how and if those genes are read,
which are influenced by our environments,
thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and consciousness.
But again, this doesn't change the gene itself.
We all still have the same genes as before,
it simply changes how they're expressed.
Now, briefly on the subject of heredity,
it's important to note
that hereditary factors are still a thing.
A 2014 study on mice, found that fear especially,
can be encoded in genetic memory
and passed down from parent to child.
In one example, mice were conditioned to fear
a strong scent of asset of acetophenone
by accompanying the smell with an electric shock.
As a result, the mice learned to fear
the smell of acetone on its own.
It was then discovered that this fear could be passed down
to the mice's children.
Despite the offspring
never experiencing the electric shock themselves,
the little mice still displayed a fear of the smell
because of they inherited the fear epigenetically
by site-specific DNA methylation.
The study suggested that these epigenetic changes
lasted up to two generations
without re-introducing the shock.
From this perspective,
it seems as though there really is something
to the idea of carrying with us ancestral trauma.
But then merging this with the rest of these discoveries,
it also becomes very clear,
that whatever it is that we're carrying,
whether it's childhood traumas or ancestral baggage,
we can actively heal these things
by our conscious participation
with our beliefs and environments.
In a nutshell, whatever ideas,
feelings or beliefs that we're locked into,
are sent into the chemistry
as a signal for the genes to be read
and start producing proteins, for positive or for negative.
Having a strong foundation of love and gratitude
will result in positive and happy chemicals like dopamine,
oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins,
all being released into the body.
And a big bonus here, according to Bruce,
it also helps with a release
of somatotropin and telomerase into the body,
which aids in cell reproduction,
cell regeneration, and longevity of overall life.
This also works in the other direction.
If we send signals or images of fear,
it raises the production of cortisol, the stress hormone,
which among other things,
activates the fight or flight response,
diverting energy away from the immune system,
and making the cells go into a protection mode,
which also can be likened into us emotionally,
shutting down from connecting with others.
Ultimately, a cell can either be in growth or retreat,
health or disease, but not in both at the same time.
So if Bruce's work has any weight to it,
why hasn't this been talked about more?
Well, the problem with medicine,
or more specifically, Big Pharma,
is that it's still using older models of thinking,
which has allowed for privatization
and monetization to corrupt the field
and steer the direction of research.
See, working in academia is actually quite tricky,
even more so in medicine.
Research must always be funded,
usually through research grants.
Sometimes you can get government grants,
which come from public money,
but much of what is considered mainstream research,
is funded by private organizations
with the backing of the pharmaceutical industry.
Unfortunately, this means there's a mentality of,
if I give you the grant,
you can only study what I give you that grant for.
And if people start getting results
that contradict established ideas and cost people money,
then the funding is cut off.
In fact, during the eighties
when Bruce was discovering this,
it was before the genome project.
So the idea that it was just the genes
that controlled everything,
was basically the mainstream dogma.
And so Bruce was laughed off as a kook
and his work was largely marginalized
because it didn't conform
to the conventional beliefs at the time.
However, since the dawn of epigenetics in the nineties,
the idea that changes in organisms,
caused by modification of gene expression
rather than alteration of the genetic code itself,
is now coming back into focus.
It seems that while the bottom line
is that we have the ability to heal ourselves
and control how our genes are expressed,
we must also approach this with some caution,
because without a proper understanding,
it can compel some people
into a behavior of toxic positivity.
It's easy to try and mask
deeper emotional wounds with a superficial mask of happiness
to try and rewrite your past.
However, the real solution is facing the depth of emotion
within you and bringing forgiveness, understanding,
and compassion to how you feel.
Further, this research may also give rise
to people blaming themselves for chronic conditions.
And even in this, we must remember the environmental factors
in genetic expression.
How what you see, think, and feel
has largely been influenced by others,
family, friends, the media, the news, and so on.
So as always, you may not be able to heal chronic conditions
instantly by yourself,
and it would be wise to implement this kind of healing
in complimentary fashion
instead of replacing Western medicine outright.
Ideally, Western medicine should evolve
with this new understanding.
While conscious thinking
is what comprises most of our day-to-day function,
the majority of genuine epigenetic healing
has to be done from the subconscious
by overriding the self-sabotaging programs
and beliefs we got as children.
While the conscious mind can learn
through reading and watching,
the subconscious tends to learn more through repetition,
hypnosis and subliminal messaging.
As an example, in the movie "The Secret,"
one woman describes how she healed her cancer
by taking a long leave from work,
where she relaxed every day and prayed,
"Thank you for my healing," over and over and over.
That kind of repetition is necessary
for lasting value to be experienced,
and it's the same thing with meditation.
In Kriya Yoga,
there is a daily practice of breathing meditation,
where you repeat to yourself,
I am not the body, and I am not the mind either.
And as you do this every day, over weeks, months and years,
your body of consciousness,
disconnects from the identification as the body or the ego,
and aligns to a more spiritual centered awareness,
and this is just one of many paths
to becoming an enlightened being.
Not only does this research
bring profound new awareness for all of us
in how we can create healing and transcend our limitations,
but it brings the realm of science
to dance on the edge of spirituality.
It also reminds us of the significance
of educating children,
just how beautiful and powerful they really are.
Because when they're so young and impressionable,
we can easily create a new generation
of super-aware enlightened children,
or rather destructive negative nellies,
entirely based on what kind of environment they grow up in.
Bruce's work offers all of us,
a chance to take our health back into our own hands,
which is definitely something worth exploring.
Personally, my highest recommendation
if you wanna go deeper into this,
is listen to the "Biology of Belief" audio book on Audible
or watch his interview with London Reel.
They're amazing.
Toodles!
(upbeat music)
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