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We register the symptoms as a reflection of the psychology perception we have.

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I've been specializing in applied physiology to know

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but those symptoms give you an insight about how you perceive life.

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My.

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Topic today is on epigenetics and neuroplasticity,

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as it relates to your overall health, wellbeing, and vitality.

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I would like to start with the

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neuroplasticity first and then I'll go to epigenetics,

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even though the title's got it in reverse and build this.

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This has been a very significant topic in my research over the

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last many, many years, I taught neurology when I was in my twenties.

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So I've been studying this a long time.

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And in the 1970s and 80s.

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We were told that when you were conceived and born and

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developed that pretty well,

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the number of nerves in your body were stationary and they eventually

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died. So you had a gradually declining neurological, you

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might say counting of nerves, and over time in the 1980s,

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90s, and into 2000, they realized that neurogenesis occurred.

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That means new nerves were able to be formed primarily in the hippocampus and

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certain regions of the brain that were involved in memory.

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And later they found out that this was occurring, not just in those areas,

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but in many areas.

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And that was a real eyeopener because that meant that the brain

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could adapt and add new nerves.

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And that was a big insight. And then we started,

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they started looking exactly what caused that to occur,

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and they realized that if there was a motive for something, you know,

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you've heard the statement; If you don't use it, you lose it.

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But if you do use it and it's useful,

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the brain will continue to develop. They later

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found out as you can see in epigenetics and also in

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the telomeres dealing with stress,

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that if you reduce your stress levels or distress levels and increase

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telomerase, you add telomeres to the genes and can live longer.

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And just like they realize that genes were kind of a modifiable

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and then they realized later with epigenetics they can modify the genes.

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They realized the nerves could be doing that and epigenetics were actually

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involved in the decisions of whether to stimulate new nerves,

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et cetera.

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And even though there's about a one nerve for every glial cell in the brain,

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glial cells are, meant glue originally,

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but they are just as functional, in fact more functional than even the nerves,

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and the glial cells are involved in remodeling the

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brain, helping in the remodeling.

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They actually involved in myelinating the brain, demyelinating the brain,

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neurogenesis, apoptosis, which is a cell death and cell birth, neurogenesis

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is cell birth and apoptosis is cell death,

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and they're absorbing and rebuilding.

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And so they realized that the nervous system was remodeling.

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It didn't have build without destroy, didn't have destroy without build.

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The evolvement of the brain to adapt to an ever-changing environment that was

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perceptual was a remodeling of the brain.

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And they found out that even people that had bipolar condition and

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schizophrenia,

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where they had prefrontal cortexes that had been demyelinated and were losing

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neurons and dying,

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they found out if all of a sudden they changed it with therapy,

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they changed it and had those individuals doing something deeply meaningful and

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inspiring to them and living by high values and neutralizing some of the

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impulses and instincts that polarized them,

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they could actually remodel the brain and bring back,

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literally, neuroplastically,

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the brain development in the forebrain was able to be developed again.

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And therefore the idea that you take a scan, a functional MRI for instance,

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on a person with schizophrenia or something, and you say, well,

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that's the reason for it,

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instead of it being causal and now it's really correlated with how you use your

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brain.

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And that's inspiring because that means that if you manage your brain more

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effectively, manage your life more effectively,

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you can develop the forebrain and keep it active and keep it growing and keep it

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growing new nerves and epigenetically modify it,

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and actually remodel the brain.

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They also found brain sometimes with missing parts,

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completely missing cerebellums which is a coordination and balancing portion of

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the brain,

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and they had balance and coordination relatively speaking and they found out

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that other parts of the brain were taking on that.

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And a whole new field was being developed where they could,

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a person would cut out their eyesight, but their tactile and smell would go up.

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And now they've even crossed from sensory over to motor.

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They now realize that if you actually have eyesight that's diminished you can

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actually develop a tactile feel and get a sense that will actually give

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visual neurons that are normally firing from the visual cortex activation

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and you can see without actually seeing, in your mind at least.

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So they realize now that the brain definitely has neuroplasticity.

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And this is very inspiring because that means that no matter what's gone on in

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your life, no matter what you've been through,

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it may not be really what determines what goes on in the brain.

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You could actually take, as I've been teaching the Breakthrough Experience,

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take a perception that you think is traumatic and revamp it,

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and reassociate things with it and turn it into something that you're grateful

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for and move forward in your life and develop the executive center.

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And if you just stayed with the idea that that was a traumatic event,

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the executive center will demyelinate and lose neurons,

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and the amygdala will grow and then you'll end up with the hippocampus

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remembering that the more you dramatize that and play like a victim and your

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brain is constantly modeling it,

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which means that you have the capacity to change your brain at any time.

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And this is very,

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very inspiring and revolutionary compared to what it was in the 70s and 60s.

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It used to be that if you found a thing you blamed that, and that was the cause.

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Now you realize it's not what goes on on outside, it's your perception of it,

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decision on it. I'm going to come back to that on epigenetics in a moment.

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So there's a rule that if you,

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it's called Hebbian rule or hebb rule that two nerves

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that happen to fire together, wire together. So that means if you take,

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like we do in the Breakthrough Experience an event that you perceive

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challenging, terrible, and you ask,

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'so what's the benefits of it?' And stack up benefits on it,

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you take new associations,

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increase new pathways in the brain and the stimulus,

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instead of a stimulus response with withdrawal and pain and suffering,

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you now associate new benefits with it and your brain says, 'Oh, great.

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I use that.' And now you're resourceful. So this is very powerful.

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You can also take things you're infatuated with and stack up the downsides to it

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and break your hook that keeps you making, going to the same regurgitant,

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the same recycling process of relationship pathways. I mean,

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I know a woman that had gotten married to five Mike's, all alcoholics,

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five marriages with alcoholics to Mike's. Father's name was Mike,

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who was an alcoholic that she resented so she ended up keep repeating that.

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So we can actually take those things we infatuate with and seek that can hook us

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and we can take those things that we resent and hook us, and we can redo those,

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change our whole pathway,

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change the reflexes and conditions in the brain and take command and

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direct it in the direction we want to go.

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So the brain is basically modeling itself constantly according to how you fill

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your day in your perceptions and your actions.

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So a very simple, in Benson's law you can take an action and repeat,

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playing a guitar or playing the violin or something like that,

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and become more masterful and it becomes autonomic and habitual,

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and you myelinate the brain and neuroplastic the brain.

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And that area of the brain will grow.

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And the areas that you're not using will die out because your body uses glucose

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and oxygen most effectively,

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it doesn't want to waste energy on something that's not needed.

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So if you don't use it, you lose it. If you use it, it grows.

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And that means you can grow your brain and develop your brain in any capacity

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you want and take command of it.

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And this is a fantastic

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science confirming what I've been sharing for many, many years,

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that if your inner most dominant thought can become your outermost tangible

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reality, you can think about how you want it and be solution oriented

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instead of problem oriented and come up with solutions and not more problems.

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If you dwell on your problems, you're going to get more problems.

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You dwell on your solutions, you get more solutions as they say.

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So the beauty of neuroplasticity is that the brain is

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plastic. It's remodelable. It's not set in stone, it's building and destroying,

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it's creating new pathways and new branches, new spines on the dendrites,

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new axon directions, it's new synapses, it's

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with epigenetics, it's literally modifying the genes inside.

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I mean, it is just amazing what we can do. So I tell people,

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and I've been saying in almost all my weekly seminars,

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if you fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you,

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your day won't fill up with low priority distractions that don't.

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If you fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you, you will spot,

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you will decide and act on things more efficiently.

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So, and that's not, I'm not saying positive thinking, I'm saying inspired.

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And there's a difference.

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Positive thinking can set up a fantasy and negative thinking can set up a

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nightmare,

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but inspired thinking is a willingness to embrace both pleasure and pain,

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the positive and negative in the pursuit of something deeply meaningful.

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And pursuing meaning is what distinguishes us from the other animals.

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You know any animal can go after avoid pain, seek pleasure and be hedonistic,

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and any human can be that also.

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But the search for that is an addictive behavior in many cases,

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but a meaningful pursuit that truly is inspiring to you,

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a why behind what you do is very important in life.

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So if you give yourself permission to go after and fill your day with things

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that are really deeply meaningful,

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what your voids and values in your life are directing you towards,

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the thing that you spontaneously are inspired to do,

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your brain will maximize its effectiveness in giving you the outcome.

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It will literally neuroplastically remodel itself down,

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all the way down to the genes and the epigenes and epi tags,

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it will modify itself to help you master your life and get what you want in

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life. So this is the magnificence of neuroplasticity.

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It's really amazing.

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There's been stories of people that were, like I said blind,

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and they took another sense and they started linking

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previous memories of when they were seeing to other sensations

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and activating old neural pathways to see from other

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senses. And so they once they linked those,

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if you saw something you could attach an idea of what you once saw there

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and reactivate that and you actually will see it in your mind,

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even though your eyes won't see it, your eyes, the pathways will do it.

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Just like they have Phantom limb pain, you could have an arm that is amputated,

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but your brain will actually feel that your fingertips of an arm that you once

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had have pain.

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I studied Phantom pain and referred pains like that and it's really quite

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amazing.

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I studied referred pains extensively when I was in my professional school.

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And we found reflexes in the body that could cause a person to have pain in a

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completely different area of the body, because the way the brain is set up.

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And if we associate new things with that pain,

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that sensation changes.

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So both the neurological sensory and motor effects and all the

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inner neurons in the brain are all re-modifiable.

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And you can do amazing things with it.

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And I couldn't develop that today on this little class here,

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but I could go probably for hours on just that.

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So neuroplasticity is the ability for your brain

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to build and destroy and remodel itself and create new synaptic pathways and get

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rid of old synaptic pathways to help you maximize your potential in your life.

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And the limits on that we really don't know yet.

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It just keeps expanding as we go.

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The research keeps pointing to the idea that nothing's set in stone and we have

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the capacity to do more.

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So just because somebody has a deficit doesn't mean that they can't reactivate

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some of those deficits. And I think in the next 5 or 10, 20 years,

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we're going to discover more and more and more on things that we once thought we

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couldn't do anything about now we'll be able to do. So that's very inspiring.

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And I just want you to know that that lets you know,

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that your potential is greater than you may have ever thought.

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And maybe our belief systems about neurology in the past were part of the

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reasons why we're limiting our potential.

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And so as we grow and expand our awareness potential,

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knowledge wise in our neurology,

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we also get to understand that we're capable of doing more.

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I really don't know what those limits are as I said.

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So neuroplasticity is amazing. You literally,

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what's interesting is if you change your perception,

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when you do the Demartini Method and you actually ask a new set of questions and

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become conscious of the unconscious information that you overlooked at the

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moment you perceived something,

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and then all of a sudden see it in 1/200th of

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a second or milliseconds,

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you literally have dendrites start to form, spines on the dendrites,

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which are the receiving end of the nerves, new synapses are starting to grow,

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new pathways are opening up, neurogenesis starting, myelinization is occurring,

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these are happening, bang like that.

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So it's not something that takes necessarily months or years to restart,

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start modifying, it's happens in billions of seconds almost,

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or millions of seconds.

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So neuroplasticity is a skyrocketing new

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field that is going to give us solutions to so-called

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problems and we realize how powerful our mind is.

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Our innermost dominant thought does impact our outermost tangible reality.

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Now let's tie that to epigenetics now, cause that's an important component too.

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Epigenetics means, epi- means upon, on top of,

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in addition to et cetera.

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And I first got involved in epigenetics when I studied genetics

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obviously because,

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we're fascinated by when a sperm and an egg unite,

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during the procreation process, you get a zygote,

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single cell that forms,

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half the genes from the mother and half from the father.

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What happens is that zygote divides and divides and divides,

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around 52 times until you get to the 7 trillion cells that you have in your

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body. And every time it divides,

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the cell that comes out of it is slightly modified.

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The genes were supposedly thought to be the same,

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cause when we studied the genes of all those cells

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they seemed to be basically the same, but yet they were different cells.

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So how could a cell be different, even thought it comes from the same genes?

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That's interesting. Well,

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what they found out is that there were stem cells branching into

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different cell types through signal molecule release and epigenetic

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modifications where types of cells would differentiate and cause a different

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type of cell. For instance,

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ectoderm cells can make nerves and skin and mesoderm cells can make bones

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and blood vessel systems and endoderm can make various organs and internal

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digestive skins, you know, the lining of the intestine.

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So that means when they can differentiate somehow to make a different type of

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cell, something has to happen because the genes are the same,

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but there's something else that's going on.

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And they found that there were signal molecules being released from a cell that

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was going to the cell wall of another cell and causing changes

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and activating a cascading of enzymes and various impacts,

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eventually causing epimutations,

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a change in the expression of the genes, even though the genes were the same,

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an expression of the genes changed.

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And that's how you could have all the different types of cells, skin cells,

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hair cells, bone cells, et cetera, by the time you're born,

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even though they have theoretically the same genes. Now,

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although there's some mosaicism and there's some individual genomes inside the

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cells,

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or not genomes but individual genes and the cells are slightly modified they

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found now in some people,

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overall the scheme is that you're basically the same genes through the body,

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but the epigenes,

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epigenetics is actually altering this in the expression.

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And now with the epigenetics,

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they're finding out that not only is epigenetics occurring during gestation,

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the nine months of development,

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but now they're finding out that epigenetics in a

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mother,

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the tagging of those genes are now passed down

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into the sperm and the egg and carried forward. And this is amazing.

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It's a multi-generational epigenetic mutations.

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And so what happens is if a father for instance is

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perceiving a trauma or something highly distressed,

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and it causes the sympathetic nervous system to be activate,

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a fight or flight response,

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activates a certain neurotransmitter like cortisol or norepinephrine,

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epinephrine or testosterone, and it's a fight response,

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it can methylate and leave methylations on the histones,

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which are the little eight proteins sitting in the genome,

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around the genome that the genes are wrapped around,

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or on the genes themselves and cause a restriction or a stopping of

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the transcription of the genes into RNA and into

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protein. So in other words,

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we can stop or start or inhibit or facilitate the

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expression of certain genes,

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epigenetically based on perceptions of elation or depression

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or happy or sad or positive, negative,

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whatever you're perceiving out there is epigenetically affecting the genes.

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And this not only occurs in cells other than the nervous system,

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but in the nervous system of the brain. So in other words,

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if you have a parent that was really highly distressed,

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a father let's say very stressed and had a major fight with somebody and never

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got over it,

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and then procreated shortly after that and had that stored in the subconscious

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mind as a wound,

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then that's an epigenetic tag onto its brain and its cells and its

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genome.

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And then that can go into the sperm and the sperm can then go in and unite with

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the mother and the two together.

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And they found out now in mammals and in humans that

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we won't even procreate if we don't have epigenetic tags.

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So the mothers and fathers tags from their emotions is passed down like an

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inheritance of acquired characteristics like Lemarck said,

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it carried that down into the next generation.

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And so we're literally passing means, which are perceptions down through,

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in addition to the genes. We call it genes and meme transmission.

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And what's interesting is we're actually getting that information carried down

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and then how we interpret our own life,

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we can actually allow that to run our life and be victims of that,

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or we can actually take those same experiences that are triggering those

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responses and neutralize those with the Demartini Method at the Breakthrough

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Experience where you can actually neutralize that and break those tags and

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remove those epigenetic tags.

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Cause some of those epigenetic tags are removed. In fact,

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we found out that in mice, which is an interesting one,

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in mice,

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if the female mice mates with a male mice and it's

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with a male mice that it really wants and likes,

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it will accept those genetic tags.

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If it's resenting and it has a withdraw from it,

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but there's nobody else to mate with and it's in its cycle and it has a mate

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that it tends to withdrawn from,

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it'll actually remove some of those tags to try to make those tags less

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influential. So we realized that we can in the next generation,

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take on or overrule those tags.

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And that's amazing, which means, again,

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we have this amazing capacity to take no matter what's happened to us and turn

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it into an opportunity. With neuroplasticity and the epigenetics,

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we can modify whatever happens in our life and turn it into something fantastic.

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This is the reason why I spend so much time at the Breakthrough Experience going

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over the Demartini Method and making sure that people learn how to do it,

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because if they really comprehended what this thing can do,

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they would be mastering it because they can alter their neuroplasticity and

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alter their epigenetics by changing their perceptions and attitudes of mind.

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This is what William James and Wilhelm Wundt said in psychology over a hundred

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years ago, that we have the capacity not to be a victim of our history,

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but to be a master of our destiny.

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So what's interesting is that these epigenetics literally what happens is,

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when you perceive something, let's just use it this way,

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I'll try to hold my hands where you can see it.

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If you perceive something that challenges you

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that activates the sympathetic nervous system, the fight or flight response.

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That activates cortisol and norepinephrine epinephrin, testosterone,

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and those transmitters go into the vascular system,

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go through the circulatory system, go to a cell wall,

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attach to a cell, when it attached to a cell,

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it literally activates a second messenger,

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which is called cyclic AMP, cyclic AMP,

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a cyclase mechanism. And what happens is it activates calmodulin,

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it lets calcium go in, it takes the cell wall, modifies the cell wall,

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it makes the permeability change,

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it causes a series of enzymes called kinase enzymes to occur,

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it phosphatizes certain chemistries,

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it then causes a methylation on the histones and the

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DNA to make sure that it wraps tighter the DNA around it so it can't be

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transcribed because when you're in fight or flight, the genes are shut down.

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And what's happening is the materials from the gene,

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the genes themselves are taken by Kennison

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molecules and transported the materials,

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all those bio-molecules and materials are transported out to the cell wall to

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protect the cell wall from defense.

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Just like if you're in an old 19 or 18th century or 17th century

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village, and somebody comes to attack,

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everybody leaves the feast and the procreation,

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it goes out to the wall to defend itself. The cells actually do that.

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And what happens is it stops and shuts down certain chemistry, alters the cell,

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we create symptoms as a result of that,

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we register the symptoms as a reflection of the psychology perception we have.

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I've been specializing in applied physiology to know

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but those symptoms give you an insight about how you perceive life.

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And those symptoms are epigenetically altered expressions of genes

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showing up in physiology.

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Now if something over here comes along and something supports you and you now

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have a rest and digest and a feed and breed parasympathetic activation,

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you get a counterbalancing complementary opposite chemistry.

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You get dopamine and serotonin and oxytocin enkephalins,

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and those chemistries go in there and they go to the cell wall the same way

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through the food systems.

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They go and activate cyclic GMP, calmodulin and activate phosphatase,

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which is the counterbalancing to kinase.

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And they go in there to the genes and then through the nuclear pore in the

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nucleus of the cell and activate the histones to unspool the DNA and

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the histones. And what happens is then it opens up and it transcribes,

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and it creates a new expression.

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And the materials come from the cell wall now by a dynein molecule and pull

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the materials into the genome so there's mitotic division and there's growth.

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So one is anabolic if there's parasympathetic, one is catabolic.

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One is for build, one is for destroy.

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And our perceptions are literally altering ourselves,

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not only in the tissues of the body, but also in the brain.

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So we literally are remodeling our body. Neuroplasticity isn't the only thing.

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It's bio-plasticity. When you have challenge, you create osteoclasts,

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which destroy your bone. When you're supported,

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you create osteoblasts that build your bone. If you have an imbalance of those,

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you can create bone conditions, blastic or clastic conditions, even cancers.

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But if those are balanced, if you have balanced emotions,

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the epigenetics balances and the plasticity of your nervous

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system balances and moves into the forebrain and allows you to have the most

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executive functions, the most governed behavior, less animal-like,

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and your whole physiology changes. So your entire wellness,

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your entire vitality is empowered by having a balanced

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mind.

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And it's one of the reasons why in the Breakthrough Experience I take whatever

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you're infatuated with or resent and I ask you the other side. See,

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when you're infatuated, you're conscious of the upside,

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you're unconscious of the downside. When you're resentful,

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you're conscious of the downside and unconscious of the upside.

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So the Demartini Method in the Breakthrough Experience

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you're unaware of. It's not that the information is not there,

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you've subjectively biased it with your perception when you're infatuated or

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resentful. And when you do,

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you move out of the executive brain and you go into the amygdala where you

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polarize it further and distort it further and get into vicious cycles that

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become highly emotive and now you've got a hook where you're seeking or avoiding

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and the world around you is running you, instead of you running you.

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But the moment I ask,

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what was the unconscious and like intuitive questions to bring out the

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unconscious and allow you to see both sides and bring your mind back into

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balance, your epigenetics don't code it one way or the other.

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It releases those tags, those epi tags, those epimutations,

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which are carried down means and motions from parents.

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You free them.

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You get to live by your highest value because when you're balanced you're in

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your executive function, you're objective and you become masterful oriented,

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self-governed, more inspired vision.

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You end up having a higher wellness quotient. You don't

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And the purpose of the symptoms were feedback mechanisms to let you know that

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you've had an imbalanced perspective.

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And your epigenetics is working on your behalf to let you know whenever you're

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distorting your reality with infatuations resentments.

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Because if you're infatuated with somebody you're not seeing who they really

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are,

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you're seeing only the upsides and you're blind to the downsides and same thing

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for resentment, you're not really seeing who they are.

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I'm sure you've had people you've infatuated with, and days, and weeks,

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months later, you found out they weren't who you thought.

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But you don't need days, weeks, and months to learn that.

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You can ask that question on the spot and see it right there and be more wise.

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The longer it takes for you to see the side that you've been ignorant of,

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the denser you are.

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Cause you're in the black and white thinking instead of gray.

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And what's interesting is if you actually see both sides simultaneously,

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you're in your most objective state, most executive function,

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you're poised, you're present, you're empowered. You're not distracted.

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You're not impulsive or instinctual, which is animal like,

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you're more angelic like, and you're more inspired.

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And you're more grateful because you see things,

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you see the hidden order in the apparent chaos.

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Cause its chaos to be in highly infatuated or highly resentful.

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If you've been highly infatuated, it's hard to sleep at night.

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Can't even get it out of your mind, it's hard to sleep,

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you have sleep deprivation. You're highly resentful,

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you also have sleep deprivation.

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But if you're poised and present and have reflective awareness and you're

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not throwing your minds into imbalance like that, you're centered, you rest

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more effectively and your epigenetic coding systems release and

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you free yourself off of the epi marks, the epi tags,

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the methylation or acetylation from the challenges and the supports,

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the things that make you.

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What's interesting is they found out that with the mice or whatever,

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when they all of a sudden have these epi marks,

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their perceptions in their life after they've inherited that,

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again can overrule them. So that means that you can't blame things 'Well,

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my grandmother was this way and that's why I'm this way',

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or 'my father was this way that's why',

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you can say that those are epigenetic marks, but they're not stationed.

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They're not permanent.

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If you choose to give power to the drama and blame,

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they stay there and then they run you and they become a self-fulfilling

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prophecy.

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But if you go in there and neutralize whatever those things are in your own

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life, you can transform those tags. Those tags are removable.

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They're not fixed like they were.

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And now they know that epigenetics can actually modify the arrangement of the

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DNA and cause transpositions and rearrangements.

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So we may be rediscovering in the future that the genes are not stationary after

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all, they're constantly evolving,

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which is why you can have a bacteria put into a environment and all of a

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sudden a few of them live and they're stronger,

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and then they can modify and they can start secreting enzymes to

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counterbalance the toxic material that was designed to kill them,

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and then they are mutating, superbugs.

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And we have the same capacity it's just not as quick as the superbug.

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We have the capacity to take whatever's happened in our life and turn it into an

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opportunity and use it and be fueled by it.

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And this is why this topic today is important. Epigenetics

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because the brain itself is undergoing epigenetic alterations

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in the pathway. So if you've got something that you perceive is very,

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very traumatic and very, very challenging, and you don't see the benefits to it,

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not because it's not there,

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because you're unconscious of it and unwilling to look for it,

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then what's going to happen is there's certain parts of the brain are going to

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shut down, they're going to demyelinate, they're going to die,

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you're going to lose those functions because you're not using them.

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But at the same time, if you go back, change your perception of them,

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those will re comeback, rebuild, and it's neuroplastic.

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And that's why it's so important to master your perceptions,

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your decisions and your actions.

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Those are the three things you have control over in your life.

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If you prioritize your actions, your motor neurons can be remodeled.

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If you prioritize your perceptions, your perceptions can be remodeled.

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And if you prioritize your decisions to do things that are inspiring to you,

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your interneurons and associations in your brain are completely remodeled.

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Our whole subconscious mind store all the lopsided perceptions,

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but the second we balance those all out and take them one by one,

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which is what I do methodically in the Breakthrough Experience with the

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Demartini Method.

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The moment we modify those things out and balance all those out,

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the subconscious mind and all those epigenetic codes are being released.

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And you're back to being who you are, the authentic you.

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Because there's the authentic you and then there's the one that's basically

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exaggerating itself when it looks down on people or minimizing itself when it

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looks up at people and those re where all the tags are.

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So all the epimutations and all the tags are expressions of your personas and

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masks that you wear.

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But if you actually neutralize them with the Demartini Method in the

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Breakthrough and neutralize those out and get back to authenticity and are

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grateful and inspired and loving and certain and present, empowered,

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enthusiastically acting towards what's really important to you,

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you transform those epigenetic tags and get yourself back

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into your real expression of genes, your gene potential.

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So I just wanted to take a few moments to share something on

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neuroplasticity and epigenetics because they

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run our behavior and we can take command of them.

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So I just wanted to go over that because it's inspiring.

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I've watched a video recently on something on epigenetics,

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it was just mind blowing about how we can transform.

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So I just want you to know that you have nothing on the outside,

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I've said this in my Breakthrough Experience's for 30 years plus,

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that nothing your mortal body can experience that your

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And when you love things, you're in command,

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when you judge things and infatuate or resentful to things,

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the external world runs your life. And the voice and the vision on the inside,

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when it's louder than all opinions and things on the outside,

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that's when you master your life.

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So please consider coming to the Breakthrough Experience and learning the

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Demartini Method to help you transform your epimutations and your epigenetics

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and neutralize those tags that may be running your life today and get on with

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doing something that's authentic and inspiring to you. And to help you do that,

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just know that the greater your vision in life,

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the more resilient and adaptable and authentic you'll be.

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If you're living and just living day to day and just surviving,

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you're not going to get the most out of your life. But if you have a thriving,

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inspired vision, that you have a big enough reason to go after,

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a why big enough,

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then you will find solutions and strategies to go and

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to help you on that. I want to give you a little gift.

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There's an audio program called Awakening Your Astronomical Vision.

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And this is a special gift it's worth about 50 bucks. We normally sell it.

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If you go to demartini.nk/gift to reclaim it,

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I am absolutely certain that this little gift will be valuable.

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You'll watch it more than once, I promise you.

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It's a live presentation I did in a planetarium in Johannesburg to a series of

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YPO leaders of businesses.

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It's about giving yourself permission to have an astronomical vision,

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to do something extraordinary on planet earth. It was inspiring.

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It was well-received. I'm absolutely certain you will listen to it.

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I talk about what impact it has by going after something that's

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inspiring to you in your life and filling your day with high priority actions.

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When you fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you,

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your epigenetics are working on behalf of you.

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So you want to make sure that you live by priority.

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This is the best way to get your neuroplasticity and

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to awaken an astronomical vision.

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So grab that opportunity to grab the astronomical vision, it's complimentary.

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I'm absolutely certain that if you listened to this five or six times,

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like some people do, it will have an impact on the trajectory of your life.

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And thank you again for being with me today. This topic,

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I could probably go a lot longer on this topic,

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but at least we got at least some of it in. Anyway,

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I hope it was inspiring for you.

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Thank you.

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For joining me for this presentation today.

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