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Mind
Power News
Issue
No. 143 / Saturday,
October 7, 2006
Edited by Andreas Ohrt /
www.MindPowerNews.com
In
this issue:
MIND OVER GENES - THE NEW BIOLOGY OF BELIEF: It is now recognized
that the environment, and more specifically, our perception
(interpretation) of the environment, directly controls the activity
of our genes.
YOUR
DESIRES CONTROL WHAT YOU SEE: "There is an age old
hypothesis in psychology that a person's wishes, hopes and desires
can influence what they see... This theory had lay dormant for
about 40 years, though, without any supporting evidence. We
wanted to test the murky waters again."
YOU
GET WHAT YOU EXPECT: Once
the subconscious has accepted an idea, you can absolutely depend
upon it to take you to that goal. If we will supply the end
results, our subconscious will supply the "how to."
WHY
YOU THINK YOU'RE WONDERFUL: Your
brain lies, cheats and distorts -- but only because it loves
you...
CAN
YOU BECOME INTOXICATED BY THE POWER OF SUGGESTION? Mind
over matter can happen with non-alcoholic drinks too. "What
you think may be as important as what you drink."
CONTROL
YOUR THOUGHTS AND CREATE YOUR LIFE: Your
life is not your master, it is your child. Every moment of your
life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful.
Just put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart
desires must come to you.
Mind
Over Genes: The New Biology
By
Dr. Bruce H. Lipton
Source: BruceLipton.com
 Earlier
in my career as a research scientist and medical school professor,
I actively supported the perspective that the human body was
a biochemical machine ‘programmed’ by its genes.
We
scientists believed that our strengths, such as artistic or
intellectual abilities, and our weaknesses, such as cardiovascular
disease, cancer or depression, represented traits that were
preprogrammed into our genes. Hence I perceived life’s
attributes and deficits, as well as our health and our frailties
as merely a reflection of our heredity expression.
Until
recently, it was thought that genes were self-actualizing…that
genes could ‘turn themselves on and off.’ Such behavior
is required in order for genes to control biology. Though
the power of genes is still emphasized in current biology
courses and textbooks, a radically new understanding has emerged
at the leading edge of cell science.
It
is now recognized that the environment, and more specifically,
our perception (interpretation) of the environment, directly
controls the activity of our genes. Environment controls gene
activity through a process known as epigenetic control.
This
new perspective of human biology does not view the body as
just a mechanical device, but rather incorporates the role
of a mind and spirit. This breakthrough in biology is fundamental
in all healing for it recognizes that when we change our perception
or beliefs we send totally different messages to our cells
and reprogram their expression. The new-biology reveals why
people can have spontaneous remissions or recover from injuries
deemed to be permanent disabilities.
The
functional units of life are the individual cells that comprise
our bodies. Though every cell is innately intelligent and
can survive on its own when removed from the body, in the
body, each cell foregoes its individuality and becomes a member
of a multicellular community.
The
body really represents the cooperative effort of a community
of perhaps fifty trillion single cells. By definition, a community
is an organization of individuals committed to supporting
a shared vision. Consequently, while every cell is a free-living
entity, the body’s community accommodates the wishes
and intents of its ‘central voice,’ a character
we perceive as the mind and spirit.
The
Mind As the Principle Source of Stress in Cellular Function
When
the mind perceives that the environment is safe and supportive,
the cells are preoccupied with the growth and maintenance
of the body. In stressful situations, cells forego their normal
growth functions and adopt a defensive ‘protection’
posture. The body’s energy resources normally used to
sustain growth are diverted to systems that provide protection
during periods of stress. Simply, growth processes are restricted
or suspended in a stressed system. While our systems can accommodate
periods of acute (brief) stress, prolonged or chronic stress
is debilitating for its energy demands interfere with the
required maintenance of the body, and as a consequence, leads
to dysfunction and disease.
The
principle source of stress is the system’s ‘central
voice,’ the mind. The mind is like the driver of a vehicle.
With good driving skills, a vehicle can be maintained and
provide good performance throughout its life. Bad driving
skills generate most of the wrecks that litter the roadside
or are stacked in junkyards.
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Your
Desires Control What You See
By
Heather Whipps
Source: LiveScience
Without
realizing it, people will perceive things according to how
they want to see them, a new study suggests.
"There
is an age old hypothesis in psychology that a person's wishes,
hopes and desires can influence what they see," said
David Dunning, Cornell University psychologist and co-author
of the study. "This theory had lay dormant for about
40 years, though, without any supporting evidence. We wanted
to test the murky waters again."
In
five separate tests conducted by Dunning and a graduate
student, Emily Balcetis, 412 volunteers from Cornell were
presented with an ambiguous picture that could be interpreted
as two distinct figures—either a horse's head or the
body of a seal, for example. They were told they would be
assigned to a taste test of either fresh-squeezed orange
juice or a gelatinous, clumpy and rather unappealing veggie
smoothie, depending on whether they saw a farm animal or
sea creature.
More
often than not the participants chose the figure that would
lead them to the juice.
The
trick to making the study meaningful was making sure the
test subjects didn't know what was going on, Dunning said,
noting that the generally high IQ of Cornell students made
cheating a real possibility.
"The
figures we used were chosen so we knew the people weren't
just lying or tricking us," Dunning told LiveScience.
"We also tracked automatic, unconscious eye movements
which were out of their control."
Not
only did participants routinely see the figure that produced
favorable results, their eye motions indicated that they
were never aware of the alternate option being available.
Other
scientists who have studied the connection between belief
and physiological reactions in the eye, now supported by
Dunning's research, point to its possibilities in the world
of positive thinking and self-motivation.
"Determining
whether a person walking towards you is smiling or smirking,
how close the finish line seems in a race or how loud a
partner—a wife, husband, lover—is yelling during
an argument," Dunning gave as examples that could arise
in life. "Could we interpret ambiguous situations towards
our expectations and hopes and away from our fears? That
is the ultimate question."
The
study will be published later this year in the Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology.
You
Get What You Expect
By Dr. Robert Anthony
Creator of The
Secret of Deliberate Creation
Whatever you expect to happen is determined by the thoughts
you dwell
upon plus the intensity of the emotions behind those thoughts.
It is worth
repeating that our subconscious does not question the
validity of the
data we present to it. It merely processes it and attracts
to us what we
believe to be true.
If we are using imagery to change habit patterns, we must
see ourselves
acting and reacting the way we want to be in the future.
It doesn't matter
how we acted today or yesterday. Once our subconscious
gets hold of
our new thought, our brain-mind, functioning together
through our
central nervous system, will take over and we will automatically
assume
the new behavior patterns. The key is to be able to picture
or imagine
the end result so vividly that it appears real.
We have learned that our subconscious mind functions in
terms of goals
or end results. Once the subconscious has accepted an
idea, you can
absolutely depend upon it to take you to that goal. If
we will supply the
end results, our subconscious will supply the "how
to." It will show us
how to reach that end result.
Think of the end results in terms of present possibilities.
They must be
seen so clearly that they seem real to your brain and
nervous system.
The ultimate aim of affirmation and visualization is to
evoke the feeling
that the goal is already achieved.
Feel as though it has already been achieved and your imagery
will pull
you toward the end result that you desire. Imagine it
in as much detail
as possible. Keep using the imaging process over and over
again for the
same goal. In the beginning, don't worry about whether
you are putting
in enough detail. Every time you visualize you will automatically
incorporate more and more detail.
Always put yourself in the picture. See yourself involved
in the activities
of your goal. If you do not put yourself in the picture,
you may not be in
the end result. Suppose you want a new car - let's say
a new BMW. You
visualize the car and faithfully infuse your imagery with
emotion, detail
and repetition. And then, all of a sudden, a new BMW comes
into your
life. You look out the window of your house and your neighbor
is driving
a new BMW! You now have new BMW in your life, but you
are not in it!
So, make sure you identify yourself with your goal.
All successful individuals have started with a picture
held in their mind.
They visualized and affirmed what they wanted to be, to
do and to have.
And then they instructed their subconscious with clarity
and repetition.
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Why
You Think You're Wonderful
Your
brain lies, cheats and distorts -- but only because it loves
you...
By
Brian Bethune
Source:
Maclean's
Magazine
There
really isn't anything the human brain can't do, and that's
aside from all that marvel-of-the-universe, super-computer
stuff, like the ability to paint the Mona Lisa, or send
a rocket to the moon or write Hamlet.
No,
the truly great stuff your brain does for you, is to protect
you from reality. Your mind loves you like a mother should:
it convinces you that what you can do well (balloon animals,
say) is important and what you're hopeless at (parallel
parking, perhaps) is trivial; that you're better-looking
and smarter than most and destined to stay that way forever.
Good
thing too, as English psychologist Cordelia Fine explains
in A Mind of its Own, her lighthearted tour through recent
research. The category of people who come closest to objective
truth about themselves (as measured by outsiders) are the
clinically depressed.
Depression,
of course, is an illness, but scientists have also learned
that a more general sense of pessimism is dangerous to health.
What Fine calls the "deathclock" only needs the
answers to four questions to calculate how many years to
shear off your life expectancy: sex, weight, smoking habits
and "Are you a pessimist?"
Fine
divides up the tricks played by our loving organ into various
categories. The so-called vain brain, for instance, is so
preening that research has shown it finds the very letters
of your name more attractive than other letters. It obscures
the statistical improbability of near-universal ideas about
the self (almost 100 per cent of subjects rate themselves
as better than average on any ordinary task like driving
a car -- a mathematically impossible outcome).
Under
the emotional brain, Fine cites tests that show how gut
instinct makes many decisions that we think are reasoned.
It's only after we've opted for one side of the question
that our cognitive faculties -- in a manner so smooth we
don't notice which came first -- provide the rationale.
The
reason emotion speaks first is because it's so much quicker
off the mark. Test subjects who pulled cards from four decks,
two of which provided more rewards than the other two, developed
an emotional antagonism to the penalty decks (as measured
by skin receptors) long before they worked out why they
felt the way they did. Conversely, people who have suffered
subtle damage to the emotion-processing parts of their brains
but whose intellects are otherwise unimpaired, often lead
chaotically indecisive lives, unable even to choose a brand
of razor blades.
There
is, sadly, much more from the cheerful Dr. Fine. The immoral
brain is what propels our tendency to blame the victim.
Faced with an injustice we cannot ameliorate, our brains
desperately want to believe that bad things happened to
bad people -- otherwise we're faced with the intolerable
idea that, through no fault of our own, we too could lose
our health, our job, our child. There's the deluded brain.
One
of the trickiest topics in psychiatry is trying to find
the dividing line between the seriously nutty (my wife has
been replaced by a look-alike space alien) and the quite
sane. Sometimes it's only a matter of how widespread the
unprovable tenet is. That 62 per cent of Canadians believe
in angels troubles few beyond particularly bloody-minded
atheists, precisely because so many people do and have done
so for centuries. If belief in the continuing existence
of Elvis suddenly spiked to that level, mental health professionals
would be in full-blown panic mode.
Then
there's the secretive brain (it's all right to let your
subconscious take over walking, so you don't have to concentrate
on sticking one foot in front of the other, but keep an
eye on how it often rules your relationship with your parents);
the weak-willed brain (the prima donna within); and the
pigheaded brain, loftily unconcerned with mere proof. What
the author likes best about that chapter is the fact, self-evident
to the Fine brain, that anything the reader finds unconvincing
in it merely proves the author's point.
It
all adds up, Fine sombrely concludes, to a vulnerable brain.
It's both disconcerting and bracing to learn all the ways
our minds distort reality. But it's all in the cause of
giving you a reason to get up in the morning, says the aptly
named "terror management theory."
Concocted
by a dour psychologist named Tom Pyszczynski, that concept
argues that the brain's tricks are a vital defence against
any "awareness that we humans are merely transient
animals groping to survive in a meaningless universe, destined
only to decay and die."
Yes,
indeed, who could blame their mind for saving them from
that? Far, far better to live in the comforting certainty
that you're more than all right, no matter how many fools
and knaves surround you -- and that your poor brain only
does what it does because it really, really loves you.
Can
You Become Intoxicated by the Power of Suggestion?
By
Dr. Stephen Juan
Source:
The
Register
Mind
over matter goes a long way. Reports of intoxication occurring
merely through the power of suggestion and not through
alcohol ingestion appear from time to time.
An
early example of this is a 19th century incident in the
US state of Maine. A logging camp was stocked with bottles
of vanilla extract containing alcohol. Workers at the
camp would occasionally break into the camp's stores,
drink the vanilla extract, and become intoxicated.
Eventually,
the logging camp managers changed to stocking bottles
of vanilla extract not containing alcohol. The workers
still occasionally broke into the stores, still drank
the vanilla extract, and still got intoxicated - without
alcohol!
Mind
over matter can happen with non-alcoholic drinks too.
"What you think may be as important as what you drink."
This is according to Dr Andrew Scholey, a professor of
psychopharmacology at the University of Northumbria in
Newcastle in the UK.
Scholey
reported to the British Psychological Society in 2000
on his study of the psychological effects upon drinkers
of caffeinated and decaffeinate coffee. As everyone is
told, caffeinated coffee (CC) makes you stay awake and
keeps you more alert. Decaffeinated coffee (DC) supposedly
does not.
Scholey
and research colleagues conducted a simple experiment.
They informed each subject in the experiment, all of whom
were coffee drinkers, that each would be assigned to one
of two groups (A or B). They informed subjects that those
in A would be given CC, those in B would be given DC,
each subject would then take a computerised test, and
each subject would be told which group they were in (and
what they were given).
In
reality, without being informed, all subjects were divided
into four groups (A1, A2, B1, B2). Those in A1 were told
they were getting CC and were given CC. Those in A2 were
told they were getting CC but were given DC. Those in
B1 were told they were getting DC and were given DC. Those
in B2 were told they were getting DC and were given CC.
The
researchers found that, as predicted, subjects who drank
CC were faster and more accurate on a computerized test
- but only if they thought they had been given CC. Subjects
who drank CC but thought it was DC performed less well.
Most
interesting of all, subjects who thought they had drunk
CC, but in reality had drunk DC, performed on the tests
as if they had really had drunk CC. Thus, what you think
is real can be more important than what is real. Mind
over matter goes a long way.
Control
Your Thoughts, Create Your Life
By
Nelson Berry
Subliminal
Secrets Exposed
You know that YOU are the creator of all the occurs in
all of your life experience, right?
You create your physical life experience through your
thoughts. Literally, every thought that you think gives
birth to a creation. EVERY thought has creative power.
The subconscious accepts whatever you pretend is real
and will use it to create your outer reality.
The thoughts that you think, regarding those things that
you want, set into motion the creation, and eventual fulfillment
of that which you want. And likewise, the thoughts that
you think, regarding those things that you do not want,
set into motion the creation, and eventual fulfillment
of that which you do NOT want.
Creative visualization is the technique of using your
imagination to create what you want in your life. There
is nothing at all new, strange or unusual about creative
visualization. You are already using it every day, every
minute in fact. It is your natural power of imagination,
the basic creative energy of the universe which you use
constantly, whether or not you are aware of it.
Spend time thinking of what you want rather than what
you don't want and test it. Be careful of this, my friends,
because if you envision something quite casually and do
it with conviction, even though you may not be sure you
want it, it will manifest.
This is neither magic, nor false hope. It is the reality
of the power of your subconscious mind. This is why it
is so important to develop self-awareness to the depths
of your ability so that no creation can come about in
your life without your having made the choice.
The world of images is the source of power in your physical
world. Imagining what you want is like creating a model
before you build the real thing. The images direct the
energy in your body.
You have designed your life yourself. You have created
nothing in your outer reality that is a stranger to you.
There is comfort to be had by looking at your "outer
circumstances" and realize that this is a perfect
reflection of what you truly believe as a soul.
With
each breath, with each pulsation of energy, you send out
this essence of yourself, which mingles with other essences
and creates and re-creates your physical environment.
Feel yourself centered within and sending out waves of
your energy. See it radiation outward from your physical
being and into the environment, where it becomes an extension
of yourself.
Realize
that the objects you perceive "out there" are
the materialization of your thoughts, formed by YOUR energy
into symbols of the inner you, your essence, your soul.
You are the creator of everything in your life. Nothing
happens that you have not called to you. The inner desire
of the wise and conscious soul is to externalize, to create
a tangible manifestation of what it internally holds to
be true and thereby experience that belief. It is through
that experience that the transformation occurs.
Your life is not your master, it is your child. Every
moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe
is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough
request and everything your heart desires must come to
you.
Emotions help you create reality. When you believe in
something, love, desire, and want it, you can create it
more quickly. If there is anything you want to become
aware of, focus upon it. Whatever you turn your attention
to, you will create.
Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.
You create creation with the thoughts that you think.
Beliefs generate thoughts and emotions, which create your
inner experience and outer reality. If any area of your
life is not working, one of your beliefs in that area
needs to be changed.
You CAN control your thoughts and create with deliberate
intent.
Go get it!
Nelson D. Berry is the founder of Subliminal-Message.com
which shows you, at last, how you can have anything you
want with Custom Subliminal Tapes or CDs that you Create!
We clearly explain how to create your own subliminal
messages from your computer in Subliminal
Secrets Exposed
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