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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH The Journey process is a practical, therapeutic expression of the latest, ground-breaking advances in the study of emotions and DNA. Scientific research shows that when we suppress our emotions, our DNA mutates and is likely to become the basis of future disease. This means that how we handle our emotions is likely to dictate our physical and emotional well-being. A Journey process can release and integrate suppressed emotions, helping to avoid DNA mutation and create the basis of future health. Our emotions shape our health Dr Candace Pert who received her PhD from John Hopkins University School of Medicine in pharmacology and worked as Research Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC has established that instead of being confined to the brain, the mind is a "flow of information" moving between all cells, organs and systems of the body. This means that the classical model where the mind and body are two different things is being replaced with a new scientific model, where the body is the mind. Within this new model, a class of tiny proteins called neuropeptides are responsible for our emotions. These pervade the body and are particularly found throughout the nervous system where they regulate our mood, behaviour and our health. Further, neuropeptides function as one, body-wide system where emotions take on the role of communicating throughout. This research therefore cancels out the previous belief that the mind controls the body. It is now known that our emotions influence the body-mind where all parts of the body-mind are in communication with each other. Our DNA responds to our emotions Because our emotions influence the body-mind, if they are suppressed or expressed in an extreme manner, our bodies are negatively affected. When we swallow down our emotions and refuse to feel them or by contrast lose control and let them take us over, the DNA sequence on our genes changes, causing what we call a "mutation." Mutation causes the genes to become defective which then causes physical and emotional disease. American geneticist Barbara McClintock has found that "shocks" to genetic material such as strong negative emotions and environmental stresses, force the human genome to restructure itself. In late 2004, the National Academy of Sciences stated that major life stresses damage DNA sections to the extent that the DNA changes shape and ceases to work effectively. Most interestingly, in scientific tests conducted on 28 samples of human placenta DNA by the Institute of Heart Math in California USA, emotions were conclusively shown to alter DNA both positively and negatively. 28 researchers were trained to produce strong emotions in themselves on demand. When the researchers evoked strong positive emotions of love, appreciation and gratitude, the sample DNA unwound and increased in length. When the researchers evoked strong negative emotions however, the sample DNA became shorter and terminated many of the DNA codes. Change your emotions, change your health Because emotions condition our DNA, when we change our emotions, we change our DNA. Dr Kazuo Murakami who decoded the human renin gene in 1983, states that our DNA perpetually changes and its structure is not set in stone as was previously thought. He specifically concludes that we can change our DNA by changing our emotions. For example, in the Institute of Heart Math tests mentioned above, it was also found that the DNA codes terminated by strong negative emotions were reactivated and their termination reversed, when the researchers switched back to evoking strong positive emotions. Meanwhile Dr Bruce Lipton, former medical school professor of the University of Wisconsin and research scientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine speaks of the "new biology" which shows that the classical genetic theory of fixed DNA is incorrect. He states that DNA adapts and can be changed and upgraded by choice. This is where the Journey process comes in. By having a Journey process we can integrate suppressed emotions so that we change our DNA and our body-mind, and re-shape both more healthily. Find out more Chopra, D. 1989 Quantum Healing Lipton, B. 2005 The Biology of Belief Murakami, K. 2006 The Divine Code of Life Pert, C. 1999 Molecules of Emotion What The Bleep Do We Know? 2005 DVD Copyright Journey East 2007 All rights reserved |
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