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You've probably heard the expression, as above, so below.
This is a truth that I've discovered in my own research.
What if you are able to create an inner experience
in your mind that carries an amplitude of energy or emotion
that's greater than a highly-charged emotional
experience in your past, which could
cause your body to literally respond to a new mind?
Is it possible that, combining a clear intention in your mind
with an elevated emotion in your body,
you can move your brain and body out of the past
and into a new future?
I realized that patients that were
able to create an inner experience that was greater
than their past experiences were able to change
the future of their bodies.
In a sense, they changed their genetic destiny.
I'm your host Dr. Joe Dispenza, and in the previous episode,
we went into depth on the different types of brainwaves.
In this episode, we're going to discover the power of your mind
and how it can change your gene expression.
I want to dispel the myth around genes
and introduce you to a new science called epigenetics.
It's my hope that this information
will help you understand how to improve
your life from the inside out.
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Let's begin with some simple biology.
Think of your body as a protein-producing machine.
Muscle cells make muscle proteins
called actin and myosin.
Skin cells make skin proteins called collagen and elastin.
Stomach cells make stomach proteins called enzymes.
Your immune system makes immune proteins called immunoglobulins
or antibodies.
Your eye cells make eye proteins called keratin.
And every single cell in your body, except red blood cells,
make proteins, and the expression of proteins
is the expression of life because proteins
are responsible for the structure and the function
of your body.
In order for a cell to make proteins,
a gene has to be stimulated or regulated.
So what are genes then?
Think about genes as a library of potentials.
And so there was a myth after the human genome was discovered
that genes create disease.
But if you study the research, less than 1%
of people on the planet are born with genetic conditions,
early onset genetic conditions like Tay-Sachs disease,
sickle cell anemia, type 1 diabetes.
The other 99% is created from lifestyle, behavior,
and choices.
So in order for a cell to make a protein,
a gene has to be regulated.
So then, if you understand then that genes don't create disease
and the expression of proteins comes from genes being
regulated, then what is causing genes
to become regulated or stimulated?
Well, the latest research in the field
called epigenetics says that genes don't create disease.
It's the environment that signals the gene that
begins to create disease.
But it begs the question, how can two factory workers working
side by side, both exposed to the same carcinogenic
chemical-- one gets cancer and the other doesn't.
Surely there must be some internal order in that person's
body that's greater than the conditions
in their environment.
And in a sense then, the inner environment of the body
is still the outer environment of the cell.
So then it's not genes that create disease,
it's our reaction to the environment
or, better yet, how we begin to look at the environment that
influences our emotional state.
And it's our emotions then that have
a key factor in sending signals to cause genes to upregulate
or what we call downregulate.
Now, genes are like Christmas tree lights.
They're turning on and off all the time.
But in a sense, they're not turning on and off.
They're getting regulated or they're
getting instructions from the environment
outside of the cell.
And when they get the proper instructions,
when the gene gets upregulated, it makes a healthy protein.
When the cell is getting information
that causes it to contract or limit
its metabolic productions, it begins to downregulate
and it starts making a cheaper protein.
So then, if the environment signals
the gene and the end product of an experience
in your environment is called an emotion,
is it possible then that you can signal the gene ahead
of the environment?
We learned in previous episodes that the stronger
the emotion that you feel from some experience in your life,
the more altered you feel inside of you,
the more you narrow your focus on the cause.
And the brain freezes the image, and that's called the memory.
And we said that people think neurologically
within the circuits of those past experiences,
and they think chemically within the boundaries
of those emotions.
And how you think and how you feel
creates your state of being.
So in a sense, highly charged emotional events
can possibly signal genes that begin
to cause the body to change.
So then, if a person is waking up every morning
and searching for the familiar feeling
that they call themselves, the moment
they get in touch with that feeling that's
familiar to them--
and those feelings are influencing their thoughts,
and those thoughts are creating more of the same chemicals that
create the same feelings.
Then if they're living by the same emotion,
it makes sense they're stimulating
the same genes in the same way every single day,
and now they're headed for a genetic destiny
because there's no new information coming
from the environment that could possibly begin to select
or instruct new genes.
And in fact, if you look at two identical twins both
sharing the same genome, why is it that one dies
at 54 and the other dies at 86?
Obviously it's their interaction in the environment, the choices
that they make, the behaviors that they demonstrate,
how they respond to stress, how resilient they are
to return back to homeostasis.
And in fact, it's their interaction
in the environment that's selecting and instructing
gene expression.
Now think about this.
When they began to map the human genome,
they said, OK, the body makes about 100,000 proteins, which
means there should be 100,000 genes
for each one of those proteins.
We have 40 genes that are called regulatory proteins
or regulatory genes that assist in making those proteins.
So now 100,000 plus 40,000 makes 140,000 proteins,
and there should be 140,000 genes.
But when they mapped the human genome,
they found out that we only express
as human beings 23,688 genes.
So then how is it possible then that we
have more proteins that make up our body than we
have genes to make them?
Because on one single gene, there
can be thousands of different variations
that begin to cause the cell to begin to make
different types of proteins.
So then the expression of proteins
is the expression of life.
And so if people are living in the routine
of the predictable future or they're
memorized to emotions of their past
and they can't think or act greater than how they feel,
then those series of events in their lives
has began to influence their gene expression.
Then once the gene has been signaled
and the person is constantly living out
of homeostasis or balance, that imbalance
becomes their new balance.
And now the internal environment of their body
is sending specific signals to the cells,
and the cells are getting the same instructions.
And the same instructions produce the same proteins,
and now the person begins to experience ill health
or disease.
So I became very interested in this topic
because I started reading research where scientists
were taking people that had type 2 diabetes
and exposing them to an hour of comedy.
And when they rated the comedy show,
many of the participants rated the show, on a scale
of one to five, a five, which means, for a whole entire hour,
they laughed.
But what they were measuring before and after the comedy
show caught my attention because they
were measuring gene expression to see
if changing their emotional state was able to, in one hour,
select and instruct new genes.
And in fact, over 20 genes were upregulated just
by people changing their mood.
So by changing their internal state,
they were able to select and instruct
new genes that made new proteins.
People began to function with diabetes within a normal range
or slightly elevated blood sugar levels
compared to where their blood sugar
levels were every single day.
So it caused me to think, OK, if I could take a group of people
and measure their gene expression and, for four days,
ask them to think differently, to make different choices,
to have new experiences, and to elevate their emotional state,
would it be possible that, in four days,
they can begin to change their gene expression?
So we selected 32 people in a randomized study.
We did some tests to take some cells out
of the inside of their mouth.
And we wanted to do measurements before they started a workshop,
and then we wanted to take another measurement
to begin to see if there was a change.
And we were measuring 7,500 different gene expressions.
That meant that, when they stepped outside of routine,
when they traded certain emotions for elevated emotions,
by beginning to change their inner state
would they be able to signal the gene ahead of the environment?
Now, what we found was that, in four days,
the gene that makes new neurons in response
to learning and novel experiences was activated.
The gene for cellular repair that stimulated
stem cells, those transitional cells that
go to damaged tissues and repair them, was activated,
so there was regeneration going on in the body.
The gene for oxidative stress was
upregulated so the body could move back
into normal health and balance.
And antioxidants, anticancer, anti-aging, anti-heart disease,
anti-stroke, anti-neurodegenerative,
anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial--
that gene was signaled.
The gene to build cellular structures,
the cytoskeleton of the cell, was activated, more integrity,
more regeneration in the cell.
Three genes were activated that began to suppress
cancer growth in tumors.
And the genes for hormonal balance, metabolic function,
and metabolic order were all stimulated within four days,
eight genes upregulated.
These are all the genes that were activated or upregulated
within just four days.
So it makes sense then, you're not doomed by your genes,
that you are your own genetic engineer.
So in our workshops around the world,
we see many people reverse very serious health conditions
like Parkinson's disease or MS or lupus or even rare
genetic disorders that medical science really
has no solution for.
So in order for me to understand how that was possible,
by studying gene expression, we now
know then that, when people begin to heal,
they're upregulating new genes and they're
downregulating genes that have to do
with disease or imbalance.
So then I started thinking, is it possible,
by teaching people how to self-regulate and begin
to change their inner state, could it lengthen their life
in some way?
Is it possible that meditation or contemplative practices
on a daily basis could influence a person's future
by adding days to their life?
So we did another study, and that study
was in Palm Springs, California in 2017.
And what we did is we randomly selected 32 people,
and then we asked these 32 people
to commit for five days out of a week
doing some type of meditation for at least 60 days.
But all we wanted them to do is to begin to self-regulate
and change their inner state.
Now, what we were looking to measure were telomeres.
Now, telomeres are the tiny little shoestrings
on the end of your DNA.
And every time a cell divides, and cells divide about 50 to 75
times, the cell begins to shave off
a little bit of that shoestring.
Now, stress and the hormones of stress
actually accelerate the degeneration of the telomeres
and the length of those telomeres.
So you can determine a person's biological age,
which may be in complete contrast
to their chronological age.
So we wanted to see then, is it possible
that telomeres could actually lengthen
and a person could lengthen their life
or extend their life in some way?
So what we found was five people discontinued doing
the meditations, which left 27.
20 out of 27 people lengthened their telomeres, which
is about 74% of the study.
11 out of the 27 people increased their telomeres
by more than 0.05%.
That's 40% of the people in the study,
and that adds about four to eight days of their life
if they live to at least 75.
Six out of the 27 people significantly
increased their telomeres between 0.1% and 0.26%.
That's 22% of the people involved
in the study lengthened their life between eight to 16 days.
Now check this out.
One person in the study increased their telomere length
within four days.
Now, I understand that telomeres take time to grow.
They're like fingernails or hair.
And studies that have been done out of UCLA
have shown that men with prostatic cancer
or at least early onset gene expression
of possible prostatic cancer, that in 60 days,
they were able to upregulate new genes for health
and downregulate those genes for disease.
And at the same time, they began to lengthen their telomeres.
So when I talked to the scientists involved
in the study, I said to them, I'm
aware that telomeres take time to lengthen,
but we're seeing in our workshops
that people are having instantaneous
change in their health during a meditation.
In other words, in some way, we're
seeing an instantaneous change.
And everything in three-dimensional reality,
for something to happen usually takes time.
But if it's energy influencing matter
and it's happening in an instant and it's not time-dependent,
that energy or the quantum is influencing matter,
is it possible then that someone could
change their telomere expression within four days
if it's a quantum phenomenon?
Well, the scientists paused for about a minute
and finally said, theoretically, it's possible,
and if one person was able to do it, I would be impressed.
And I said, that's all I need.
And we had one person able to significantly change
their telomere length within four days,
and that is a quantum phenomenon.
So in a sense, we made history to prove
that you can lengthen your life by changing
your internal state.
So how do we change gene expression?
When people have highly charged emotional experiences
and it begins to change their emotional state
and it changes their brain structure,
it changes the mapping of their brain,
how is it possible then that they
can begin to select and instruct new genes
and to change their health?
Well, when you have an internal experience in your mind
that carries an amplitude of energy that's
greater than the hardwired programs in your brain
and the emotional conditioning in your body,
you will become biologically changed.
Here's a person going along living their normal life,
and all of a sudden, they have a highly charged
emotional experience.
That experience then wires and enriches
the circuits in their brain, and it
begins to send the chemical emotional signal to their body.
And it's that chemical emotional signature
to the body that begins to change
the person's state of being.
Why?
Because we could say their body and brain are now in the past,
and that event has changed them biologically.
So how are they going to change the biology of their circuitry,
their neurochemistry, their hormone expression, and even
their gene expression?
What happens for most people is they
begin to create beliefs about themselves
and their lives from past experiences.
They are the thoughts neurologically
and the feelings chemically that they embrace
within the biology of their past experiences
which ultimately becomes their state of being,
because how you think and how you feel
creates your state of being.
So then when a person has an inner experience
in the present moment that carries an amplitude of energy
or the emotion inwardly is greater
than the shock or the betrayal from the past,
it makes sense then, when the emotional quotient is greater
than the past experience, it's going
to begin to rewire the brain and send a new emotional signature
beginning to condition the body in that present moment
to a new mind.
And we could say then, your biology literally
changes or, better yet, the past no longer exists.
Now I want to tell a story to be able to bring this
all together.
We had a 72-year-old woman come to a week-long event
in Vancouver, British Columbia, and this woman
was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
And Parkinson's disease is a deficiency
in dopamine in the brain.
And when there's not enough dopamine in the brain, all
of a sudden, the upper motor neurons in the brain
can't communicate very well with each other, and the effect,
it begins to produce involuntary tremors
and this type of paralysis called spastic paralysis.
You see a limitation in motor function,
or when a person tries to move, they
have these involuntary tremors.
Try as they may to control it with their conscious mind,
they can't.
And in fact, a lot of times when they get anxious or nervous,
their tremors or their condition amplifies.
Now, that is a gene that has been downregulated.
So then this woman, in one meditation,
had one inner experience that literally was so profound,
it was so elevated that, when she came back to her senses,
she literally began to express different proteins.
In a sense, she changed her body by thought alone.
And so we brought her onto the stage,
and her condition before this event
was that she couldn't swallow.
She couldn't chew her food.
She had saliva constantly running off of her mouth.
She had to consistently use a tissue,
and she couldn't stand up.
After that one inner event that carried an amplitude of energy
that was greater than the hardwired programs in her brain
and the normal emotional feelings
that she felt on a daily basis, we
could say that, in that moment, genes
began to become upregulated and new information was
coming into her body.
She stood on the stage and she said,
after all these years, all the therapies, all
the different drugs, all the different surgeries that I had,
nothing seemed to change this condition,
and now I can speak better.
I can chew my food.
I can blow my nose.
I can swallow.
And for the audience, she sat down and then stood up.
And she literally had a significant change
in gene expression, and it happened in one instant.
Now, by the same means, there are
people that have had abusive childhoods
with alcoholic parents where they
were abused every single day when their father came home
from work, and it wasn't just one event.
It was a series of several events over time
that began to select and instruct
genes that caused them to have a rare genetic condition.
Now, in this case, this person, it took them almost two years
to literally consistently knock on the genetic door
and break out of the patterns of their normal thinking
and the way they typically felt.
In other words, every single day,
they understood that they were their own genetic engineer.
And every single day, they were working
on going from the old self to the new self.
And of course, life isn't that linear.
They had their own stress events.
They had their own difficulties.
They had their own financial problems.
They had family dynamics.
And because they were living life, it took them more time.
But every day, they were shaving down a little bit more
of those emotions from the past and learning
how to elevate their emotional state.
And they were practicing every single day,
combining a clear intention with an elevated emotion
and moving into a new state of being.
Now, this person's health condition was very limited.
They had the very scaffolding and the structure of their bones
were degenerating where they had numerous fractures,
and the doctors told them there was no solution
for this genetic condition.
But if you understand then, if the scaffolding of bones
is made of proteins and that you could actually
begin to upregulate those genes, every single day,
she was knocking on that genetic door
and shaving down that emotional state
and changing her thoughts and feelings that, in two years,
she reached the point in her life
where she was so in love with herself, so in love with life,
so grateful to be alive that she no longer cared if she even
had the condition any longer.
She went to the hospital.
They did the urine samples to determine if the disease was
still present, and she got the call the next day
that the gene was literally upregulated
and her condition was back to normal.
Now this person to this day still has
the change in her health.
Now, when she stood on the stage and told the story
to the audience, there was a woman
in the audience with the same rare genetic condition.
And she looked at that person and said, if she could do it,
I can do it.
And this woman reversed the same rare genetic juvenile onset
condition within three months.
In other words, the person who had the healing
broke the four-minute mile and it
made it easier for the next person to do the same.
And that's exactly what starts to happen in this work.
I believe that health and wellness can become
as infectious as disease.
Now that I've shown you the supernatural ability of how
your genes can be reprogrammed, how
can we use this information to heal your body by thought
alone.
In fact, what's the next level for you?
In the next episode, I want to ask the question,
if in double blind and triple blind placebo studies where
subjects respond to a sugar pill and the changes result from 10%
all the way up to 100%, do you really
need a sugar pill begin to heal your body?
In other words, is it possible to heal your body by thought
alone?
I'm your host Dr. Joe Dispenza for "Rewired,"
and I hope to see you in the next episode
where we go beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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