Part 1 EPIGENETICS: How Your Choices Change Your Genes Welcome to the 3rd Series of A 4 Part Series on Well-Being: A Re-Conceptualized Skill As you read/listen to this 3rd Series titled Epigenetics, I want to remind you to think about the following 2 foundational questions throughout this 4-Part Series. The first question is: Why is it that some people are more vulnerable to life's slings and arrows and others more resilient? The second question is: How can we nurture this quality and promote more human flourishing to promote more resilience? Let’s talk about Epigenetics. Epigenetics means that your choices, whatever they are in terms of sleep, stress management, exercise, personal relationships, and emotions - these choices all change the activity of your genes. For example, if you have love, compassion, joy, or equanimity in your life, then the genes that cause self-regulation or homeostasis or what ordinary people call "healing", these genes go up in their activity. W
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