When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded. -Stephen Wright
Almost a year ago to the day, I wrote about a new company that offered to decode your DNA for $1,000. 23and Me has since then managed to lower the cost of their initial spit-test to $399 and be selected as one of Time magazine's Best Inventions of 2008. Obviously, they were right on the money.
While I think it might be fun to trace my lineage and find out why my great-grandparents look more European than Asian, I'm not so sure that I want to know the specifics of my propensities toward certain diseases and conditions. Not yet. I think it would clutter my mind and make it more difficult to locate thoughts of health and well-being.
I watched the Biology of Belief for the fourth or fifth time last night because I love hearing cellular biologist Bruce Lipton emphasize:
Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.
In his book, Lipton speaks of the placebo effect as well as the nocebos, the power of negative beliefs. Citing examples of "staged" knee surgeries and the remarkable recoveries of patients (placebo) to the discovery of no evidence of esophageal cancer in a man who died believing that he had the fatal disease (nocebo along with a misdiagnosis), Lipton calls for Science to bring Spirit back into play.
One of my teachers says this repeatedly in many different ways: "Expectation is a focus with a vibration that permits the receiving of what you're focused upon-and, you expect things, both wanted and unwanted." Hearing someone in a white lab coat tell you that you are at great risk for multiple sclerosis becomes an unwanted condition that is difficult to ignore. I'm not sure that my mind is ready to completely override that, yet. I'm still working on the accumulated clutter.
While I think it might be fun to trace my lineage and find out why my great-grandparents look more European than Asian, I'm not so sure that I want to know the specifics of my propensities toward certain diseases and conditions. Not yet. I think it would clutter my mind and make it more difficult to locate thoughts of health and well-being.
I watched the Biology of Belief for the fourth or fifth time last night because I love hearing cellular biologist Bruce Lipton emphasize:
Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.
In his book, Lipton speaks of the placebo effect as well as the nocebos, the power of negative beliefs. Citing examples of "staged" knee surgeries and the remarkable recoveries of patients (placebo) to the discovery of no evidence of esophageal cancer in a man who died believing that he had the fatal disease (nocebo along with a misdiagnosis), Lipton calls for Science to bring Spirit back into play.
One of my teachers says this repeatedly in many different ways: "Expectation is a focus with a vibration that permits the receiving of what you're focused upon-and, you expect things, both wanted and unwanted." Hearing someone in a white lab coat tell you that you are at great risk for multiple sclerosis becomes an unwanted condition that is difficult to ignore. I'm not sure that my mind is ready to completely override that, yet. I'm still working on the accumulated clutter.
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