When from time to time publications appear in the media about miraculous healing from a fatal disease using auto-suggestion, a special diet, bioenergetics or some other non-traditional method, skeptical smiles usually appear on the faces of doctors and scientists.
Even when it comes to indisputable facts confirmed by modern research methods, traditional medicine either dismisses them or tries to explain the unexpected recovery of the patient by an error in the initial diagnosis.
However, American geneticist Bruce Lipton argues that with the help of true faith, solely by the power of thought, a person is indeed able to get rid of any disease. And there is no mysticism in this: Lipton’s research has shown that directed mental influence can change… the genetic code of an organism.
“Nobody canceled the placebo effect.”
Over the years, Bruce Lipton has specialized in the field of genetic engineering, successfully defended his doctoral thesis, and authored a number of studies. All this time, Lipton, like many geneticists and biochemists, believed that man is a kind of biorobot, whose life is subject to a program written in his genes.
From this point of view, genes determine almost everything: the features of appearance, abilities and temperament, predisposition to certain diseases and, ultimately, life expectancy. No one can change their personal genetic code, which means we can only accept what nature has ordained.
A turning point in Dr. Lipton’s views was the experiments he conducted in the late 1980s to study the behavior of the cell membrane. Before that, it was believed in science that it was the genes located in the cell nucleus that determined what should be passed through this membrane and what should not. However, Lipton’s experiments have shown that external influences on a cell can influence the behavior of genes and even lead to changes in their structure.
All that remained was to understand whether it was possible to make such changes with the help of mental processes, or, more simply, with the power of thought.
“I haven’t really come up with anything new,” Dr. Lipton says. – For centuries, doctors have known the placebo effect – when a patient is offered a neutral substance, claiming that it is a medicine. As a result, the substance actually has a healing effect. But, oddly enough, there has been no scientific explanation for this phenomenon so far.
My discovery allowed me to give the following explanation: with the help of faith in the healing power of medicine, a person changes the processes going on in his body, including at the molecular level. He can “turn off” some genes, force others to “turn on” and even change his genetic code.
After that, I thought about the various cases of miraculous healing. The doctors always brushed them off. But in fact, even if we had just one such case, it should have made doctors think about its nature.
We are all in a hurry for miracles…
Academic science has taken these views of Bruce Lipton with hostility. However, he continued his research, during which he consistently proved that without any drugs it is quite possible to influence the genetic system of the body.
Including, by the way, with the help of a specially selected diet. So, for one of his experiments, Lipton bred a breed of yellow mice with congenital genetic defects that condemn their offspring to overweight and a short life. Then, with the help of a special diet, he ensured that these mice began to produce offspring that did not look like their parents – they were ordinary in color, thin and lived as long as the rest of their relatives.
All this, you must admit, smacks of Lysenkoism, and therefore the negative attitude of academic scientists to Lipton’s ideas was not difficult to predict. Nevertheless, he continued his experiments and proved that a similar effect on genes can be achieved with the help of, say, the influence of a strong psychic or through certain physical exercises. The scientific field studying the influence of external influences on the genetic code is called “epigenetics”.
Nevertheless, Lipton considers the power of thought to be the main influence that can change the state of our health, what happens not around us, but inside us.
“It’s been known for a long time that two people can have the same genetic predisposition to cancer,” Lipton says. – But one showed the disease, and the other did not. Why? Yes, because they lived in different ways: one was more likely to experience stress than the other; they had different self-esteem and self-esteem, different train of thought. Today, I can say that we are able to control our biological nature; we can use our thoughts, beliefs, and aspirations to influence our genes.
The great difference between humans and other creatures on Earth lies precisely in the fact that they can change their bodies, heal themselves from deadly diseases, and even get rid of hereditary diseases by giving mental instructions to the body. We don’t have to be victims of our genetic code and the circumstances of our lives.
Believe that you can be cured, and you will be cured of any disease. At first glance, everything is extremely simple. But only at first glance…
When consciousness is not enough…
If it were that simple, most people would easily solve any health problems by reciting simple mantras like “I can heal from this ailment,” “I believe that my body is able to heal itself.”..
But none of this happens, and, as Lipton explains, it cannot happen if mental attitudes penetrate only into the area of consciousness, which determines only 5% of our mental activity, without affecting the remaining 95% – the subconscious. Simply put, only a few of those who believed in the possibility of self-healing with the power of their brain actually really believe in it – and therefore succeed. The majority, on the subconscious level, deny this possibility.
THE POWER OF THOUGHT CAN CHANGE THE GENETIC CODE OF AN ORGANISM
More precisely, their subconscious mind itself, which, strictly speaking, automatically controls all processes in our body, rejects this possibility. At the same time, it (again, at the level of automatism) is usually guided by the principle that the probability that something positive will happen to us is much less than the further course of events in the worst case scenario.
According to Lipton, it is in this way that our subconscious begins to tune in during early childhood, from birth to the age of six, when the most insignificant events, intentionally or accidentally spoken words by adults, punishments, and injuries form the “experience of the subconscious” and eventually the personality of a person. Moreover, the very nature of our psyche is designed in such a way that everything bad that happens to us is deposited in the subconscious mind much easier than the memory of pleasant and joyful events.
As a result, the “subconscious experience” of the vast majority of people consists of 70% of “negative” and only 30% of “positive”. Thus, in order to truly achieve self-healing, it is necessary, at least, to change this ratio to the exact opposite. This is the only way to break down the barrier set up by the subconscious mind in the way of the invasion of our thought power into cellular processes and the genetic code.
According to Lipton, the work of many psychics is precisely to break down this barrier. But he suggests that a similar effect can be achieved with hypnosis and other methods. However, most of these methods are still waiting to be discovered. Or just widespread recognition.
After the ideological upheaval that took place for Lipton about a quarter of a century ago, the scientist continued his research in the field of genetics, but at the same time became one of the active organizers of various international forums aimed at building bridges between traditional and alternative medicine.
At the congresses and seminars organized by him, famous psychologists, doctors, biophysicists and biochemists sit next to all kinds of folk healers, psychics and even those who call themselves magicians or sorcerers. At the same time, the latter usually demonstrate their capabilities to the audience, and scientists arrange a brainstorming session to try to explain them scientifically.
At the same time, they are considering future experiments that would help identify and explain the mechanism of our body’s hidden reserves.
It is in this symbiosis of esotericism and modern methods of treatment, with the main reliance on the possibilities of the patient’s own psyche, or, if you like, magic and science, that Bruce Lipton sees as the main way for the further development of medicine. And whether he’s right or wrong, time will tell.
