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Featured Book: The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention
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By energy-connections editor
Published on 05/26/2007
 
What if you could have...
  • Enormous increases in your immune system function
  • A huge energy boost at the start of the day
  • Understanding of how to turn certain of your genes on or off at will
  • The ability to defuse emotional trauma in minutes
  • A spike in the desease-prevention biochemistry of your body every single morning
These are just some of the breakthroughs that scientists and physicians describe in The Genie in Your Genes by Dawson Church, PhD.

Breaking free of the old view that your DNA runs the show of your body and mind, programming you for disease and decay, they represent a new understanding of biology. Backed by more than 300 scientific studies, this new view of DNA shows that by using the magic lamp of your intentions, you can directly affect your genes to support your health and well-being.

Dawson Church coins the new term "Epigenetic Medicine" to describe healing techniques with epigenetic effects. He also summarizes the science behind the infant fields of Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine, both of which offer promising epigenetic medical therapies, and describes a few of the thousands of powerful personal breakthroughs that are being achieved by therapists, doctors and lay people praticing these techniques.


The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention
By Dawson Church Ph.D.

Author Dawson Church applies the insights of the new field of Epigenetics (epi=above, i.e. control above the level of the gene) to healing. Citing hundreds of scientific studies, he shows how beliefs and emotions can trigger the expression of DNA strands. He focuses on a class of genes called Immediate Early Genes or IEGs. These genes turn on within a few seconds of a stimulus. They can be triggered by thoughts or emotions ("I loved that unexpected gift of roses Bill gave me" or "I'm so mad about what Uncle John said at the Christmas party"). Many IEGs are regulatory genes turn on other genes that affect specific aspects of our immune system, such as the production of white blood cells that destroy attacking bacteria and viruses. Epigenetics thus influences our health every day.

He coins the new term "Epigenetic Medicine" to describe healing techniques with epigenetic effects. He also summarizes the science behind the infant fields of Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine, both of which offer promising epigenetic medical therapies, and describes a few of the thousands of powerful personal breakthroughs that are being achieved by therapists, doctors and lay people praticing these techniques.

The Genie in Your Genes shows that there is a sound theoretical framework, based on credible experiments, for understanding these astonishing results, and predicts that the insights of Epigenetic Medicine will dramatically advance the fields of both medicine and psychology in the coming decade.

Best of all, The Genie in Your Genes demonstrates that, by taking control of our consciousness and using it to influence our genetic expression, we can sometimes bypass years of therapy, as well as harmful drugs and invasive surgeries, to, in effect, do continuous genetic engineering on our own bodies. This can produce both immediate relief from long-standing anxieties and neuroses, as well as "miraculous" healing of persistent physical conditions, especially autoimmune diseases.

Among a new crop of books that chart the way to a positive health future, The Genie in Your Genes stands out as a solidly grounded and exciting pointer to the future possibilities of a medicine that links soul to body and mind.