Heal Yourself

Ok… You’ve got my attention. Tell me more about the impact on health.

Ok, first, some basics… we all know that our bodies are made up of electrical and chemical signals, right? (If this is new to you, it’s true, trust me, but you can read more here.) And we know that energy comes in two forms, negative and positive, right? (Think of a battery cell, but if you want more on this in a human cell, you can read more here.) But did you also know that “At the level of our physical bodies, the DNA molecule in each cell acts as an “antenna” and demodulator that is tuned to the organizing field. At the macroscopic level, the individual DNA molecules are linked through an “energetic connection” in the form of conventional magnetic fields, which are organized in overlapping patches of cells.[7]”. I know, right?!

Now, let’s consider the placebo effect. This is the mind’s ability to create a positive outcome when it believes sincerely that the outcome is possible, regardless of whether the intervention is real or not. For example, in scientific studies where they are testing the efficacy of a drug, they will provide test subjects with either a sugar pill or the drug (all randomly selected so the participants have no idea which one they are getting). When a test subject believes they have received the drug that they are convinced will help them feel better, even though they actually received the sugar pill, they experience positive results. In some cases, completely cure their ailments!

More recently, they have taken the placebo effect to a whole new level with performing “fake” surgeries and have seen incredible results. Patients are put through the whole process of preparing for and going through ‘surgery’, to the point where a surgical team will actually cut into the person while the patient watches a video on the screen of the same type of surgery. The patient thinks the surgery they are watching is their own, happening right now, but it’s just a pre-recorded video of someone else’s surgery. The surgeon doesn’t really do anything, other than cut them open and close them up, but the patient ‘saw’ the surgery take place, with their own eyes, so they are 100% convinced they went through it. They go through all the same recovery protocols as a real surgery and recover fully. The ‘surgery’ fixed their issue!

In fact, the power of what the mind and heart believe and how this belief can support healing, even applies to the doctor. If someone trusts their doctor, they will believe what the doctor says, and their body will respond in line with this. This is where I want to draw your attention to the nocebo effect. This is the reverse of the placebo effect (nocebo being negative belief, placebo being positive belief). If the doctor tells you that you are not going to recover, or have a fatal illness, or you have a condition or disease (although they haven’t even done testing yet) you will believe them and your body will manifest this outcome. This is why I encourage my clients not to label themselves at all. I encourage them refrain from saying “I have… (condition)” or “I am… (illness)”, and say “I am currently managing symptoms of …” instead.

To read more about the placebo and nocebo effect, take a look at these short articles from the National Institute of Health: The Art of Surgery: The Strange World of the Placebo Response, and The nocebo effect and its relevance for clinical practice.

The full science behind the placebo and nocebo effect are still being studied, but the evidence is clear, we have the power to change how the cells in our bodies behave and respond. We get to choose if they respond positively or negatively based on how we think and feel. This evidence, therefore, also challenges the belief that we are victims of our DNA, which brings me to the study of Epigenetics.

Epigenetics is the study of how influences outside of our cells, such as nutrition, lifestyle, stress, exercise, and mindset, affect our gene expression. Although this is a fairly new area of study, there is a ton of information and data to support this theory already, and scientists and medical professionals are seeing the results in their patients. More specifically, as it relates to the subject being discussed here, your emotions, whether negative or positive, will create an appropriate energetic response in the body, therefore, changing the environment of your cells. Negative emotions will create stress, positive emotions will create love. All you have to do is choose which energy you want to expose your cells to.

In the case of love and caring, as we saw earlier, this energy is so strong, it can even be measured outside of the body, while negative energy stays within the body. To go even further, this paper on the Modulation of DNA Conformation by Heart-Focused Intention showed that one could unwind the strands of DNA contained in a test tube simply by focusing positive thoughts towards it! Remember earlier when we said the energy from the heart is a form of communication? Well, that’s exactly what it’s doing here… it is communicating with the DNA and remapping it! How? Well, a paper prepared by the NIH explains that “DNA circuits can be packed and unpacked depending on the ionic environment”[8]. As such, depending on whether the environment is positively or negatively charged.

If one could have this power of influence over someone else’s DNA in a test tube, just imagine the power of positive intention on your own cells, where a frequency alignment with your own DNA already exists!