The emerging science of epigenetic medicine is changing the way we think about how we can get (or stay) healthier longer. If you are a reader, you will want a copy of The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention, by Dawson Church, Ph.D. What wonderful news that our biology is not our destiny! Now you understand that you actually change your destiny by the choices you make about your lifestyle. Over the next few weeks, I will be recovering from surgery, so we will be revisiting some of the ways you can get (or stay) healthier, longer. We are all learning how we can do this for ourselves, as we look closely at what Church refers to as “ten principles of Epigenetic Medicine.”
Church suggests that we will benefit by identifying our unique psychological triggers so we can walk out of the office of a caring expert with a “prescription pad of beliefs, concepts, prayers, and visualizations” that have been proven (scientifically) that they will boost your immune system as you make doing them for about ten minutes part of each day of your life.
Principle Number 1 – Intentions First, Outcomes Second
While a good outcome in physical medicine means the symptom has disappeared, symptoms can be seen as a guide to deeper awareness of not only physical, but also emotional and mental and spiritual, needs. Illness can be full of gifts, and “Cancer was the best thing that ever happened to me” is a common (paradoxical) comment heard throughout the stories of survivors.
In my new book, Falling Together in Love: Stories from my Heart, with her permission, I tell the story of Jane, a wonderful woman who has learned to heal body, mind, and spirit. Jane is excited to share her story because the surgeon had told her husband and son that there was nothing more he could do for Jane. He also told her something else…. He said, “You need to find a holistic healer.”
Jane likes to remind me to be sure to mention to folks that this was in 1999!
Church suggests we state our intentions clearly then let go. He writes that Reinhold Niebuhr’s serenity prayer (used by AA and other twelve-step programs) is a good one to use regularly. He sees opportunity for Western medicine, with its focus on outcomes, to embrace the idea that the journey is more than the destination. You already know that your having a good sense of well-being is a lot more than just not being sick.
Church writes about how tiny robots have been developed to work inside the body. He mentions the Pillcam, a camera the size and shape of a pill that a person can swallow. It moves along the digestion track, easily providing valuable information. Wow … these are very exciting times we are living in.
This week, make conscious your clear intentions to get on board the epigenetic medicine train. Your future depends on it! (edited and reposted from 2010)
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