When from time to time publications appear in the media about a miraculous healing from a deadly disease using self-hypnosis, a special diet, bioenergetics or any other unconventional 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 shrugs them off, or tries to explain the unexpected recovery of the patient by a mistake in the initial diagnosis.
However, the American geneticist Bruce Lipton claims that with the help of true faith, solely by the power of thought, a person is in fact able to get rid of any disease. And there is no mysticism in this: Lipton's studies have shown that directed psychic influence can change … the genetic code of the organism.
Nobody canceled the placebo effect
Over the years, Bruce Lipton specialized in genetic engineering, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, and became the author of a number of studies. All this time Lipton, like many geneticists and biochemists, believed that a person is a kind of biorobot, whose life is subject to a program written in his genes.
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From this point of view, genes determine almost everything: features of appearance, abilities and temperament, predisposition to certain diseases and, ultimately, life expectancy. No one can change their personal genetic code, which means that we can only come to terms with what is predetermined by nature.
A turning point in Dr. Lipton's views was his experiments in the late 1980s to study the characteristics of the behavior of the cell membrane. Until then, it was believed in science that it was the genes in the nucleus of the cell that determine what should be passed through this membrane and what should not. However, Lipton's experiments showed that external influences on the cell can influence the behavior of genes and even lead to a change in their structure.
All that remained was to understand whether such changes could be made with the help of mental processes, or, more simply, by the power of thought.
“Basically, I haven’t come up with anything new,” says Dr. Lipton. - For centuries, physicians have known the placebo effect - when a patient is offered a neutral substance, claiming that this is a medicine. As a result, the substance does indeed have a healing effect. But, oddly enough, there has not yet been a scientific explanation for this phenomenon.
My discovery allowed me to give the following explanation: with the help of faith in the healing power of a medicine, a person changes the processes going on in his body, including at the molecular level. He can "turn off" some genes, make others "turn on" and even change his genetic code.
Following this, I thought about various cases of miraculous healing. Doctors have always dismissed them. But in fact, even if we only had one such case, it should have made doctors think about its nature.
We are all in a hurry for miracles …
Academic science took 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, and 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 short life. Then, with the help of a special diet, he achieved that these mice began to give birth to offspring that did not look like their parents - of an ordinary color, thin and living as long as their other relatives.
All this, you must agree, gives off Lysenkoism, and therefore it was not difficult to predict the negative attitude of academic scientists to Lipton's ideas. Nevertheless, he continued 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 direction that studies the influence of external influences on the genetic code is called "epigenetics".
And yet, Lipton considers the power of thought to be the main effect that can change the state of our health, what is happening not around, but inside us.
“It has long been known that two people can have the same genetic predisposition to cancer,” Lipton says. - But one disease manifested itself, while the other did not. Why? Because they lived differently: one experienced stress more often than the other; they had different self-esteem and sense of self, different train of thought. Today I can argue that we are able to control our biological nature; we can influence our genes through thought, faith and aspiration.
The great difference between a person and other creatures on Earth lies precisely in the fact that he can change his body, heal himself from deadly diseases and even get rid of hereditary diseases, giving the body mental attitudes to this. We don't have to be victims of our genetic code and our circumstances.
Believe that you can be healed 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 everything were that simple, then most people would easily solve any health problems by reciting simple mantras like “I can heal from this disease”, “I believe that my body is able to heal itself” …
But none of this happens, and, as Lipton explains, 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 have believed in the possibility of self-healing by the powers of their brain actually really believe in it - and therefore achieve success. Most, on the subconscious level, deny this possibility.
More precisely: their very subconscious, which, in fact, 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 according to 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 six years old, when the most insignificant events, intentionally or accidentally spoken words by adults, punishments, traumas form the "experience of the subconscious" and, as a result, a person's personality. Moreover, the very nature of our psyche is arranged in such a way that everything bad that happens to us is deposited in the subconscious much easier than the memory of pleasant and joyful events.
As a result, the "experience of the subconscious" for the overwhelming 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 reverse this ratio. Only in this way can the barrier set by the subconscious mind be broken on the way of the invasion of the power of our thoughts into cellular processes and the genetic code.
According to Lipton, the job of many psychics is precisely to break this barrier. But he suggests that a similar effect can be achieved with the help of hypnosis and other methods. However, most of these methods are still waiting to be discovered. Or just widespread acceptance.
After the worldview revolution 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 with the aim of 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 to the audience their capabilities, and scientists arrange a brainstorming session to try to explain them scientifically.
And at the same time, they are thinking over future experiments that would help identify and explain the mechanism of the hidden reserves of our body.
It is in this symbiosis of esotericism and modern methods of treatment, with the main reliance on the capabilities of the patient's psyche, or, if you will, magic and science, that Bruce Lipton sees the main path for the further development of medicine. Time will tell whether he is right or not.
Jan SMELYANSKY