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EPIGENETICS:  How Your Choices Change Your Genes

Welcome to the 3rd Series of A 4 Part Series on Well-Being: A Re-Conceptualized Skill

Here's an analogy that might further help you to understand what epigenetics is.

Think of a human life span as long movie. The cells would be the actors and actresses - essential units that make up the movie. DNA in turn, would be the script - instructions for all the participants of the movie to perform their roles.

Subsequently, the DNA sequence would be the worlds on the script, and certain blocks of these words that instruct key actions or events to take place would be the genes.

The concept of the genetics would be like a screenwriting. Moreover, the concept of epigenetics then, would be like directing.

The script cam be the same, but the director can choose to eliminate or tweak certain scenes or dialogue, altering the movie for better or worse.

After all, Steven Spielberg's finished product would be drastically different than Woody Allen's for the same movie script, wouldn’t it?

Well, what's the takeaway? These two new practices, Neuroplasticity as we discussed in the 2nd Series & Epigenetics will cause a huge revolution in not only personal well-being, but hopefully also in the way we conduct our politics and our businesses. Wouldn't that be something?

In effect, the mind can change the brain to change the mind and genes. Doing this is really valuable because the inner strength that we all want inside ourselves such as happiness, positive emotion, productivity, creativity, feeling loved, confidence, and virtues, those are all built out of the brain.
So imagine that…a world of healing bodies, minds, & hearts.

STAY TUNED for more science-based evidence of the tremendous power of the mind-body experience.

As always, I look forward to your contribution in elevating this dialogue.

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