Did you know that you can change your DNA?

Today I am writing about a research published in 2011 by the Heart Math Institute that explores how our thoughts, feelings and intentions we have every day can alter the outcome of each individual’s DNA blueprint.

The article of the Heart Math Institute (HMI) explains that when we are born our DNA in our bodies contains the blueprints for who we are and instructions for who we will become. They further explain that many of us mistakenly believed that the DNA with which we are born with is the sole determinant for who we are and will become. However, this is explained to be a flawed theory.

Forces outside our DNA sequence, including intracellular, environmental and energetic influence play an important role in our development.  

So something more than our genetics and the environment in which we develop determine who and what we are. The article refers to studies that conclude that epigenetics entails even more than DNA and the places where we live, the climate around us and all the experiences we have in our life.

HeartMath deems integral elements of the model for who we are and what we can be are the thoughts, feelings and intentions we have every day. After two decades of studies, HeartMath researchers say other factors such as the appreciation and love we have for someone or the anger and anxiety we feel also influence and can alter the outcomes of each individual’s DNA blueprint.

The Heart Math Institute cites stem cell biologist and bestselling author Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., who says “the distinction between genetic determinism and epigenetics is important.”

“The difference between these two is significant because this fundamental belief called genetic determinism literally means that our lives, which are defined as our physical, physiological and emotional behavioral traits, are controlled by the genetic code,” Lipton said in an interview with the online magazine, Superconsciousness. “This kind of belief system provides a visual picture of people being victims: If the genes control our life function, then our lives are being controlled by things outside of our ability to change them. This leads to victimization that the illnesses and diseases that run in families are propagated through the passing of genes associated with those attributes. Laboratory evidence shows this is not true.”

The way we develop and become is largely influenced and according to the HMI’s article “When we have negative emotions such as anger, anxiety and dislike or hate, or think negative thoughts such as ‘I hate my job,’ ‘I don’t like so and so’ or ‘Who does he think he is?’, we experience stress and our energy reserves are redirected.”

The negative emotions puts a strain on our energy reserves, which otherwise would be put to work maintaining, repairing and regenerating our complex biological systems, to instead confront the stresses these negative thoughts and feelings create.

“In contrast,” the article continues, “when we activate the power of our hearts’ commitment and intentionally have sincere feelings such as appreciation, care and love, we allow our hearts’ electrical energy to work for us. Consciously choosing a core heart feeling over a negative one means instead of the drain and damage stress causes to our bodies’ systems, we are renewed mentally, physically and emotionally. The more we do this the better we’re able to ward off stress and energy drains in the future. Heartfelt positive feelings fortify our energy systems and nourish the body at the cellular level. At HeartMath we call these emotions quantum nutrients.”

The article suggests that when we go through a rough period of time we can positively influence our bodies – all the way down to the cellular level – by intentionally thinking positive thoughts and focusing on positive emotions.

The power of intentional thoughts and emotions has also been tested in studies and proven to be correct and helpful in our development.

HeartMath researchers have gone so far as to show that physical aspects of DNA strands could be influenced by human intention. The article, Modulation of DNA Conformation by Heart-Focused Intention – McCraty, Atkinson, Tomasino, 2003 – describes experiments that achieved such results. One example of an individual who succeeded by generating heart coherence - a beneficial state of mental, emotional and physical balance and harmony – with the aid of a HeartMath technique that utilizes heart breathing and intentional positive emotions. The individual succeeded, as instructed, to intentionally and simultaneously unwind two of the DNA samples to different extents and leave the third unchanged.

“The results provide experimental evidence to support the hypothesis that aspects of the DNA molecule can be altered through intentionality,” the article states. “The data indicate that when individuals are in a heart-focused, loving state and in a more coherent mode of physiological functioning, they have a greater ability to alter the conformation of DNA.

“Individuals capable of generating high ratios of heart coherence were able to alter DNA conformation according to their intention. … Control group participants showed low ratios of heart coherence and were unable to intentionally alter the conformation of DNA.”

The heart, which generates a much stronger electromagnetic field than the brain’s, provides the energetic field that binds together the higher dimensional structures and the body’s many systems as well as its DNA.

You may want to read the full article here:  https://www.heartmath.org/articles-of-the-heart/personal-development/you-can-change-your-dna/