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You've probably heard the
expression, as above, so below.

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This is a truth that I've
discovered in my own research.

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What if you are able to
create an inner experience

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in your mind that carries an
amplitude of energy or emotion

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that's greater than a
highly-charged emotional

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experience in your
past, which could

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cause your body to literally
respond to a new mind?

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Is it possible that, combining
a clear intention in your mind

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with an elevated
emotion in your body,

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you can move your brain
and body out of the past

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and into a new future?

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I realized that
patients that were

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able to create an inner
experience that was greater

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than their past experiences
were able to change

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the future of their bodies.

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In a sense, they changed
their genetic destiny.

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I'm your host Dr. Joe Dispenza,
and in the previous episode,

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we went into depth on the
different types of brainwaves.

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In this episode, we're going to
discover the power of your mind

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and how it can change
your gene expression.

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I want to dispel the
myth around genes

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and introduce you to a new
science called epigenetics.

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It's my hope that
this information

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will help you understand
how to improve

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your life from the inside out.

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Let's begin with
some simple biology.

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Think of your body as a
protein-producing machine.

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Muscle cells make
muscle proteins

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called actin and myosin.

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Skin cells make skin proteins
called collagen and elastin.

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Stomach cells make stomach
proteins called enzymes.

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Your immune system makes immune
proteins called immunoglobulins

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or antibodies.

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Your eye cells make eye
proteins called keratin.

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And every single cell in your
body, except red blood cells,

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make proteins, and the
expression of proteins

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is the expression of
life because proteins

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are responsible for the
structure and the function

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of your body.

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In order for a cell
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a gene has to be
stimulated or regulated.

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So what are genes then?

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Think about genes as a
library of potentials.

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And so there was a myth after
the human genome was discovered

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that genes create disease.

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But if you study the
research, less than 1%

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of people on the planet are
born with genetic conditions,

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early onset genetic conditions
like Tay-Sachs disease,

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sickle cell anemia,
type 1 diabetes.

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The other 99% is created
from lifestyle, behavior,

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and choices.

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So in order for a cell
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a gene has to be regulated.

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So then, if you understand then
that genes don't create disease

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and the expression of proteins
comes from genes being

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regulated, then what
is causing genes

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to become regulated
or stimulated?

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Well, the latest
research in the field

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called epigenetics says that
genes don't create disease.

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It's the environment that
signals the gene that

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begins to create disease.

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But it begs the question, how
can two factory workers working

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side by side, both exposed
to the same carcinogenic

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chemical-- one gets cancer
and the other doesn't.

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Surely there must be some
internal order in that person's

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body that's greater
than the conditions

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in their environment.

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And in a sense then, the
inner environment of the body

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is still the outer
environment of the cell.

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So then it's not genes
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it's our reaction
to the environment

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or, better yet, how we begin
to look at the environment that

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influences our emotional state.

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And it's our emotions
then that have

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a key factor in sending signals
to cause genes to upregulate

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or what we call downregulate.

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Now, genes are like
Christmas tree lights.

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They're turning on
and off all the time.

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But in a sense, they're
not turning on and off.

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They're getting
regulated or they're

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getting instructions
from the environment

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outside of the cell.

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And when they get the
proper instructions,

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when the gene gets upregulated,
it makes a healthy protein.

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When the cell is
getting information

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that causes it to
contract or limit

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its metabolic productions,
it begins to downregulate

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and it starts making
a cheaper protein.

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So then, if the
environment signals

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the gene and the end
product of an experience

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in your environment
is called an emotion,

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is it possible then that you
can signal the gene ahead

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of the environment?

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We learned in previous
episodes that the stronger

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the emotion that you feel from
some experience in your life,

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the more altered you
feel inside of you,

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the more you narrow
your focus on the cause.

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And the brain freezes the image,
and that's called the memory.

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And we said that people
think neurologically

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within the circuits of
those past experiences,

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and they think chemically
within the boundaries

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of those emotions.

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And how you think
and how you feel

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creates your state of being.

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So in a sense, highly
charged emotional events

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can possibly signal
genes that begin

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to cause the body to change.

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So then, if a person is
waking up every morning

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and searching for
the familiar feeling

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that they call
themselves, the moment

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they get in touch with
that feeling that's

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familiar to them--

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and those feelings are
influencing their thoughts,

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and those thoughts are creating
more of the same chemicals that

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create the same feelings.

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Then if they're living
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it makes sense
they're stimulating

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the same genes in the
same way every single day,

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and now they're headed
for a genetic destiny

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because there's no
new information coming

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from the environment that
could possibly begin to select

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or instruct new genes.

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And in fact, if you look
at two identical twins both

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sharing the same genome,
why is it that one dies

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at 54 and the other dies at 86?

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Obviously it's their interaction
in the environment, the choices

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that they make, the behaviors
that they demonstrate,

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how they respond to stress,
how resilient they are

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to return back to homeostasis.

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And in fact, it's
their interaction

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in the environment that's
selecting and instructing

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gene expression.

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Now think about this.

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When they began to
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they said, OK, the body makes
about 100,000 proteins, which

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means there should
be 100,000 genes

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for each one of those proteins.

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We have 40 genes that are
called regulatory proteins

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or regulatory genes that assist
in making those proteins.

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So now 100,000 plus 40,000
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and there should
be 140,000 genes.

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But when they mapped
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they found out that
we only express

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as human beings 23,688 genes.

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So then how is it
possible then that we

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have more proteins that
make up our body than we

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have genes to make them?

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Because on one
single gene, there

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can be thousands of
different variations

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that begin to cause the
cell to begin to make

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different types of proteins.

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So then the
expression of proteins

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is the expression of life.

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And so if people are
living in the routine

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of the predictable
future or they're

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memorized to emotions
of their past

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and they can't think or act
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then those series of
events in their lives

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has began to influence
their gene expression.

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Then once the gene
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and the person is
constantly living out

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of homeostasis or
balance, that imbalance

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becomes their new balance.

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And now the internal
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is sending specific
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and the cells are getting
the same instructions.

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And the same instructions
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and now the person begins
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or disease.

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So I became very
interested in this topic

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because I started reading
research where scientists

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were taking people that
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and exposing them to
an hour of comedy.

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And when they rated
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many of the participants
rated the show, on a scale

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of one to five, a five, which
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they laughed.

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But what they were measuring
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show caught my
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were measuring gene
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if changing their emotional
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select and instruct new genes.

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And in fact, over 20 genes
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by people changing their mood.

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So by changing their
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they were able to
select and instruct

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new genes that
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People began to function with
diabetes within a normal range

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or slightly elevated
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compared to where
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levels were every single day.

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So it caused me to think, OK, if
I could take a group of people

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and measure their gene
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ask them to think differently,
to make different choices,

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to have new experiences, and to
elevate their emotional state,

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would it be possible
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they can begin to change
their gene expression?

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So we selected 32 people
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We did some tests to
take some cells out

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of the inside of their mouth.

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And we wanted to do measurements
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and then we wanted to
take another measurement

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to begin to see if
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And we were measuring 7,500
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That meant that, when they
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when they traded certain
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by beginning to change
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would they be able to signal the
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Now, what we found was
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the gene that makes
new neurons in response

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to learning and novel
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The gene for cellular
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stem cells, those
transitional cells that

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go to damaged tissues and
repair them, was activated,

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so there was regeneration
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The gene for
oxidative stress was

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upregulated so the
body could move back

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into normal health and balance.

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And antioxidants, anticancer,
anti-aging, anti-heart disease,

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anti-stroke,
anti-neurodegenerative,

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anti-inflammatory,
anti-microbial--

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that gene was signaled.

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The gene to build
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the cytoskeleton of the cell,
was activated, more integrity,

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more regeneration in the cell.

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Three genes were activated
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cancer growth in tumors.

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And the genes for hormonal
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and metabolic order were all
stimulated within four days,

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eight genes upregulated.

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These are all the genes that
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within just four days.

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So it makes sense then, you're
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that you are your
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So in our workshops
around the world,

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we see many people reverse
very serious health conditions

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like Parkinson's disease
or MS or lupus or even rare

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genetic disorders that
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has no solution for.

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So in order for me to understand
how that was possible,

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by studying gene
expression, we now

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know then that, when
people begin to heal,

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they're upregulating
new genes and they're

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downregulating genes
that have to do

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with disease or imbalance.

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So then I started
thinking, is it possible,

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by teaching people how to
self-regulate and begin

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to change their inner state,
could it lengthen their life

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in some way?

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Is it possible that meditation
or contemplative practices

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on a daily basis could
influence a person's future

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by adding days to their life?

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So we did another
study, and that study

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was in Palm Springs,
California in 2017.

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And what we did is we
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and then we asked
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to commit for five
days out of a week

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doing some type of meditation
for at least 60 days.

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But all we wanted them to do
is to begin to self-regulate

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and change their inner state.

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Now, what we were looking
to measure were telomeres.

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Now, telomeres are the
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on the end of your DNA.

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And every time a cell divides,
and cells divide about 50 to 75

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times, the cell
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a little bit of that shoestring.

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actually accelerate the
degeneration of the telomeres

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and the length of
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So you can determine a
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which may be in
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to their chronological age.

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So we wanted to see
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that telomeres could
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and a person could
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or extend their
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So what we found was five
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the meditations, which left 27.

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20 out of 27 people lengthened
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is about 74% of the study.

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11 out of the 27 people
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by more than 0.05%.

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That's 40% of the
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and that adds about four
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if they live to at least 75.

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Six out of the 27
people significantly

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increased their telomeres
between 0.1% and 0.26%.

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That's 22% of the
people involved

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in the study lengthened their
life between eight to 16 days.

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Now check this out.

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One person in the study
increased their telomere length

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within four days.

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Now, I understand that
telomeres take time to grow.

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They're like
fingernails or hair.

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And studies that have
been done out of UCLA

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have shown that men
with prostatic cancer

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or at least early
onset gene expression

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of possible prostatic
cancer, that in 60 days,

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they were able to upregulate
new genes for health

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and downregulate those
genes for disease.

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And at the same time, they began
to lengthen their telomeres.

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So when I talked to
the scientists involved

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in the study, I
said to them, I'm

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aware that telomeres
take time to lengthen,

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but we're seeing
in our workshops

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that people are
having instantaneous

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change in their health
during a meditation.

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In other words,
in some way, we're

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seeing an instantaneous change.

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And everything in
three-dimensional reality,

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for something to happen
usually takes time.

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But if it's energy
influencing matter

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and it's happening in an instant
and it's not time-dependent,

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that energy or the quantum
is influencing matter,

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is it possible then
that someone could

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change their telomere
expression within four days

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if it's a quantum phenomenon?

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Well, the scientists
paused for about a minute

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and finally said,
theoretically, it's possible,

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and if one person was able to
do it, I would be impressed.

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And I said, that's all I need.

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And we had one person able
to significantly change

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their telomere length
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and that is a
quantum phenomenon.

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So in a sense, we
made history to prove

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that you can lengthen
your life by changing

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your internal state.

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So how do we change
gene expression?

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When people have highly
charged emotional experiences

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and it begins to change
their emotional state

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and it changes their
brain structure,

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it changes the mapping
of their brain,

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how is it possible
then that they

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can begin to select
and instruct new genes

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and to change their health?

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Well, when you have an internal
experience in your mind

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that carries an amplitude
of energy that's

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greater than the hardwired
programs in your brain

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and the emotional
conditioning in your body,

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you will become
biologically changed.

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Here's a person going along
living their normal life,

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and all of a sudden, they
have a highly charged

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emotional experience.

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That experience then
wires and enriches

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the circuits in
their brain, and it

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begins to send the chemical
emotional signal to their body.

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And it's that chemical
emotional signature

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to the body that
begins to change

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the person's state of being.

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Why?

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Because we could say their body
and brain are now in the past,

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and that event has
changed them biologically.

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So how are they going to change
the biology of their circuitry,

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their neurochemistry, their
hormone expression, and even

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their gene expression?

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What happens for
most people is they

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begin to create beliefs
about themselves

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and their lives from
past experiences.

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They are the thoughts
neurologically

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and the feelings chemically
that they embrace

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within the biology of
their past experiences

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which ultimately becomes
their state of being,

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because how you think
and how you feel

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creates your state of being.

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So then when a person
has an inner experience

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in the present moment that
carries an amplitude of energy

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or the emotion
inwardly is greater

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than the shock or the
betrayal from the past,

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it makes sense then, when the
emotional quotient is greater

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than the past
experience, it's going

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to begin to rewire the brain and
send a new emotional signature

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beginning to condition the
body in that present moment

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to a new mind.

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And we could say then,
your biology literally

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changes or, better yet,
the past no longer exists.

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Now I want to tell a story
to be able to bring this

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all together.

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We had a 72-year-old woman
come to a week-long event

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in Vancouver, British
Columbia, and this woman

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was diagnosed with
Parkinson's disease.

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And Parkinson's
disease is a deficiency

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in dopamine in the brain.

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And when there's not enough
dopamine in the brain, all

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of a sudden, the upper
motor neurons in the brain

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can't communicate very well
with each other, and the effect,

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it begins to produce
involuntary tremors

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and this type of paralysis
called spastic paralysis.

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You see a limitation
in motor function,

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or when a person
tries to move, they

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have these involuntary tremors.

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Try as they may to control
it with their conscious mind,

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they can't.

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And in fact, a lot of times when
they get anxious or nervous,

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their tremors or their
condition amplifies.

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Now, that is a gene that
has been downregulated.

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So then this woman,
in one meditation,

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had one inner experience that
literally was so profound,

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it was so elevated that, when
she came back to her senses,

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she literally began to
express different proteins.

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In a sense, she changed
her body by thought alone.

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And so we brought
her onto the stage,

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and her condition
before this event

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was that she couldn't swallow.

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She couldn't chew her food.

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She had saliva constantly
running off of her mouth.

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She had to consistently
use a tissue,

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and she couldn't stand up.

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After that one inner event that
carried an amplitude of energy

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that was greater than the
hardwired programs in her brain

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and the normal
emotional feelings

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that she felt on
a daily basis, we

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could say that, in
that moment, genes

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began to become upregulated
and new information was

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coming into her body.

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She stood on the
stage and she said,

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after all these years,
all the therapies, all

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the different drugs, all the
different surgeries that I had,

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nothing seemed to
change this condition,

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and now I can speak better.

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I can chew my food.

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I can blow my nose.

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I can swallow.

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And for the audience, she
sat down and then stood up.

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And she literally had
a significant change

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in gene expression, and it
happened in one instant.

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Now, by the same
means, there are

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people that have had
abusive childhoods

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with alcoholic
parents where they

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were abused every single day
when their father came home

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from work, and it
wasn't just one event.

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It was a series of
several events over time

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that began to
select and instruct

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genes that caused them to
have a rare genetic condition.

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Now, in this case, this person,
it took them almost two years

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to literally consistently
knock on the genetic door

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and break out of the patterns
of their normal thinking

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and the way they typically felt.

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In other words,
every single day,

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they understood that they were
their own genetic engineer.

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And every single day,
they were working

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on going from the old
self to the new self.

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And of course, life
isn't that linear.

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They had their
own stress events.

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They had their own difficulties.

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They had their own
financial problems.

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They had family dynamics.

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And because they were living
life, it took them more time.

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But every day, they were
shaving down a little bit more

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of those emotions from
the past and learning

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how to elevate their
emotional state.

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And they were practicing
every single day,

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combining a clear intention
with an elevated emotion

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and moving into a
new state of being.

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Now, this person's health
condition was very limited.

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They had the very scaffolding
and the structure of their bones

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were degenerating where
they had numerous fractures,

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and the doctors told them
there was no solution

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for this genetic condition.

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But if you understand then,
if the scaffolding of bones

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is made of proteins and
that you could actually

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begin to upregulate those
genes, every single day,

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she was knocking on
that genetic door

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and shaving down
that emotional state

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and changing her thoughts and
feelings that, in two years,

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she reached the
point in her life

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where she was so in love with
herself, so in love with life,

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so grateful to be alive that
she no longer cared if she even

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had the condition any longer.

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She went to the hospital.

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They did the urine samples to
determine if the disease was

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still present, and she
got the call the next day

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that the gene was
literally upregulated

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and her condition
was back to normal.

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Now this person to
this day still has

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the change in her health.

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Now, when she stood on the
stage and told the story

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to the audience,
there was a woman

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in the audience with the
same rare genetic condition.

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And she looked at that person
and said, if she could do it,

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I can do it.

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And this woman reversed the
same rare genetic juvenile onset

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condition within three months.

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In other words, the
person who had the healing

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broke the four-minute
mile and it

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made it easier for the
next person to do the same.

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And that's exactly what
starts to happen in this work.

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I believe that health
and wellness can become

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as infectious as disease.

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Now that I've shown you the
supernatural ability of how

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your genes can be
reprogrammed, how

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can we use this information
to heal your body by thought

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alone.

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In fact, what's the
next level for you?

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In the next episode, I
want to ask the question,

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if in double blind and triple
blind placebo studies where

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subjects respond to a sugar pill
and the changes result from 10%

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all the way up to
100%, do you really

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need a sugar pill begin
to heal your body?

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In other words, is it possible
to heal your body by thought

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alone?

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I'm your host Dr. Joe
Dispenza for "Rewired,"

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and I hope to see you
in the next episode

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where we go beyond the ordinary
into the extraordinary.

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