Every thought and feeling changes something in the body. Ever been
embarrassed? Did your face go red at the thought of people looking at you
or knowing something private about you? Of course it did. Your thoughts
are affecting your biology! http://ping.fm/hWYJi
On the positive side, our thoughts can have far reaching health-giving
consequences. For example, scientific studies have shown that thinking and
feeling care or compassion for another person can bring coherence to the
rhythms of the heart. One study even found an increase in key immune
chemicals after 5 minutes of such loving thoughts.
Thoughts and emotions even bring about changes at the level of the DNA.
Our genes continually switch on and off as the body goes about it's basic
house-keeping. However, our thinking influences the process.
Take a simple example. Say you fall and scrape your knee. As the body
begins to repair itself, genes switch on to provide the materials needed
for repair, like hormones, clotting factors, even new skin. But if you
were focusing your attention on stuff that made you sad, or even believing
that you would take ages to heal, then genes would switch on that would
interfere with the healing process.
On the other hand, if you imagined that the wound was healed and believed
that your thoughts would help, then genes would switch on and you would
heal faster.
Additionally, strong emotions like fascination, wonder, awe, excitement,
and enthusiasm, as well as spiritual states of consciousness, are so
powerful that they even switch on genes that cause brain cells to grow in
adults - something that, up until a few years ago, was believed to be
impossible. The key is the interaction of emotions with DNA.
This all happens inside the body. Where it gets really interesting is when
our thoughts affect things outside of the body.
Some scientists placed organisms in test tubes and found that people could
influence them just by intending for them to change. For instance, people
could either mentally speed up or slow down the mutation of E-coli on
command.
Some university research has also shown that a thought about a person is
registered in their body. While hooked up to devices measuring electrical
resistance in the skin, scientists measured changes in people depending on
the thoughts held about them by people in another room.
These things are able to occur because all life is interconnected at the
quantum level. A thought not only affects your body, but it ripples
throughout the invisible web that interconnects all of life. Each of us
affects the whole.
Therefore it is possible for us to make a real positive difference in the
word by changing our attitudes and behaviours towards each other. In a
very real way an act of kindness in your own home or workplace will ripple
throughout the interconnectedness of life and make a difference in the
lives of people on the other side of the world. And ultimately, it's not
so much the act, but the space of love it came from that it most
important. It's the thought that counts.
So if you want to see a world you dream of then start with yourself. Each
of us can make a real difference, regardless of our status in life.
Everyone is important. And that means You!
A simple formula is to show love for self, love for others, and love for
nature.
This article is Copyright � 2008 by David R. Hamilton Ph.D.
www.drdavidhamilton.com
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