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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

“…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?

Genetic choice – our thinking can change our genes?

Positive thinking can change our GENES?