Let me say it upfront -- I am not about to parade with my basics in the science of epigenetics, but I have to put this article on some solid base to avoid an impression of pushing something like New Age stuff.
As for a few technicalities and phraseology being used, they are only at a level where I could understand them myself, so neither should they pose a problem to a reader.
Now, are healing and transformational miracles possible other than those documented due to religious faith? Yes, and there is an ample body of evidence that people have achieved spontaneous remissions in certain heavy diagnoses without praying or even with no changes in their diet or lifestyle.
So what was the mechanism at work?
According to the medical researchers and those conducting certain workshops, those interviewed pointed at one common denominator in most cases.
They all had changed their emotional makeup, once facing the verdict of having only so much left to live. They stopped worrying, complaining, and just decided to live it up in each precious moment -- and that alone did it.
As for those without such a strong motivation to pay to their life what they owed to it -- similar results have been achieved time and time again in settings of some workshops, notably the ones conducted by dr. Joe Dispenza and his technical team.
With some top-shelf equipment, the biomarkers of the attendants were measured before and after some days spent in intense "emotional training," and they showed incredible improvements -- along with subjective feelings of great relief and change.
My description of what exactly is going on at those workshops wouldn't do any justice to them, so let's make it as simple as possible.
This brings us to our main theme of elevated emotions. What are they? How do we make them work for us?
While there is nothing like a step-by-step manual that could instruct someone about how to persist with an emotion that appears strange to their everyday emotional repertoire -- we have to resort to our imagination here. You see, in a workshop setting, it's all different, as the group spirit does a lot, and the trainer can pretty much guide his audience through meditative procedures.
Since any of that is impossible in this case, anyone with strong enough motivation can still use some of the following guidelines and succeed.
I think that the craziest thing about it all is that at face value, it seems so misleadingly simple, but as we try to put it to practice, a maddening truism about our nature hits us hard.
Namely, damn it -- we resist feeling those elevated emotions. Something in us is sabotaging it big time, only to make us realize at the very start that -- if it were easy as it sounds, the whole world would be doing it, and miracles would be an everyday news story.
Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it's the courage to continue that counts.
--Winston S. Churchill
Placing Cart in front of Horse -- but It Works
In simple words, we all have something like our emotional model, which is firmly stuck to our daily thinking habits and our general worldview. And then it comes so hard to introduce in that model something as strange as gratitude for something that hasn't happened yet.
Our minds don't work that way -- we have to receive first and only then feel grateful. That's what makes these elevated emotions of a "pleasant surprise" over an absent achievement so hard to implement into our emotional routine.
Talking about the mechanism at work, our brain and body can't tell the difference between a real change and an imagined and emotionally treated one. So, when we are emotionally experiencing a desired future outcome, our nature starts physiologically and biologically following that blueprint as if it's already our intimate reality.
This brings us to our present ": emotional truth" -- yes, what we see in the mirror, and what our biomarkers would tell, is the exact reflection of our predominant emoting, which are a shadow of our image of ourselves, our beliefs, our stress accumulated over the years.
You see, for the longest time, geneticists believed in something like our genetic determination -- meaning that our genes at birth would pretty much dictate our biology, our mentality, if not also our tastes and choices we make.
But then it came to some groundbreaking discoveries, pointing to the fact that our genome is constantly shifting in its expression of genes, all depending on -- you are beginning to see -- the messages our cells are receiving about how safe and favorable is their living environment.
And, since emotions are the main language that our body understands, those emotionally charged messages are picked up by cellular intelligence, which results in upregulating or downregulating our genes' expressions.
Talking about the general state of our health, looks, and vitality, we are either stressing the hell out of our cells' will to live or nourishing a life-promoting emotional environment for our body.
In terms of our longevity, those telomeres -- shoe-string-looking things in our chromosomes, which got shorter and shorter as we age -- we are either emoting ourselves into a longer or a shorter life. Yes, telomers' length is susceptible to our prolonged stress, while some stress management is kept at a slower rate of getting shorter.
Should I repeat myself from some of my other articles about the horrible irony of the current protective measures against covid-19, as they have been creating a level of global paranoia that has -- indirectly -- killed more people than the virus would have killed on its own.
Can you imagine how that persistent daily bombardment with reports on the numbers infected and dead was processed at our cellular level -- where "safety of environment" plays such a big role in our overall well-being? But O.K., let's leave it at that.
So, can we now see we must change our emotions, especially if we desire to heal our body and our?
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