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Genetic choice – our thinking can change our genes?

May 29, 2014 By christianscienceminnesota 12 Comments

I write about how our thinking affects our health. A previous post, Expectation: the ultimate placebo effect shows how thinking can be effective medicine – even when patients are told beforehand about a placebo, yet still expect and experience good results.

But what if a problem is genetic? Is that conclusion that last word? NO.

Can our thinking still have an effect? YES.

A book that has something relevant to offer here is the Bible. It gives examples of people who were “born” with certain conditions and then cured through an entirely new spiritual perspective of their well being.

A newer book, written over a hundred years ago, (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy), states: “Heredity is not a law.” It explains how changing our mental response to that subject – changing how we think about theories associated with our genetic inheritance – can help heal and even prevent disease.Continue Reading

Positive thinking can change our GENES?

June 1, 2012 By christianscienceminnesota Leave a Comment

“…thinking is ‘real’ medicine, as proven by the placebo effect,” says Deepak Chopra in a CNN article called, “Can positive thinking make you well?”

He asks how far we can take that: “…is there a placebo effect that doesn’t involve fooling the patient? Can you trigger your own inner defenses by the way you think?” He says that camps are divided on the effect of just positive thinking, since many disorders are considered to be genetically triggered.

Then he drops this bomb: “In the public’s mind, being told that cancer or diabetes is genetic acts as final authority. Luckily for the positive-thinking camp, this fatalistic attitude is mistaken. Genes are dynamic, not fixed; they respond to a person’s environment, behavior and attitudes. Indeed, a now-famous study in Sweden showed that a tendency to diabetes may be strongly affected by the diet your great-grandfather ate. A whole new field is studying how much choice we have at the genetic level.”

Wow! Thinking affects genes! Did you know that?

Cheating death 101

May 25, 2012 By christianscienceminnesota Leave a Comment

Here’s the way I figure it: if you can come back from death, then you can overcome anything less than death.

As we head into Memorial Day weekend grilling and chilling, I thought the following dramatic guest post from my Texas colleague, Keith Wommack would be food for thought…

You enter the room of a gravely ill friend where hope has vanished. Your thoughts weigh heavy. The family expects a quick passing. Doctors have proclaimed there are but a few hours left. The room is dark, both mentally and physically. You feel helpless.

But, what if you could do something, something that made a difference?

Two last-minute healing experiences, I am aware of, show it’s possible for you to be of help. The first involves Joseph Mann and a thirty-two-caliber revolver. The second details Mary Belt’s time at the Clara Barton Hospital in Los Angeles. While I briefly describe these accounts, for a point of emphasis, I am suggesting that you are the healer.

Joseph Mann was accidentally shot with the thirty-two-caliber revolver. Four doctors concluded that nothing could be done to save him. As his body was growing cold and death perspiration was on his forehead, you were allowed to enter his home.

Mann later stated, “Within about fifteen minutes after you had been admitted into our house I began suddenly to grow warm again under your treatment. My breath was again revived and normal. I became conscious, opened my eyes and knew I should not die, but would live.” And, he was right.