It's Not Your Genes but You Who are in Charge

In the 20th century, Freud and others in the world of Psychology developed the concept of the subconscious mind but wondered…where the heck is it located? Maybe it’s a mental process or maybe an object. It’s believed now that the subconscious mind is at least partly located in the body.

Our experiences, and many of those of our parents and ancestors, are written into our cells! Many impulses, predispositions, tendencies and traits come down to us through our DNA. However, the idea that we are stuck with those has been tossed out the window with the emergence of the world of Epigenetics.

It was previously thought that DNA was the master plan, and now we’ve seen that it’s our cell wall which reads the environment and dictates what that cell will be. Instead of determining what and who you are, your genes make proteins. The idea that because an illness is in your lineage that you will get it is only relevant about 5% of the time. It’s your environment that will determine what you’ll go through.

What’s your environment like? Where are you spending your time, what are you watching and listening to? What about your inner environment? How much stress are you holding onto? What are your thoughts like? How do you feel about your life today?

You can upgrade your situation in an instant. For example, psychiatrist and researcher Eric Kandel has shown that when we learn our mind affects which genes in our brain neurons are transcribed, and so by extension we change our brains literally at a physical level. This is an example of “from mind to matter”.

It is so rad to think that we can literally change our cells instantaneously based on what we do and think! So, what is your highest choice? Feel into where you can upgrade, evolve, heal, and transform, do the workplay, and watch your body follow suit.

Abundant Blessings,

The Encompass Life Team