DNA and Creating Change
What is DNA?
Obviously, I'm not a scientist of any sort, however, the following is a brief and concise layman's summary of the physical setup of DNA to give you some idea of how the metaphysics of DNA works for creating change.
Physically your DNA is a part of your biology found within the nucleus of the cell. A part of the DNA is made up of genes. Human beings have 23,000 genes and these genes account for 3% of the DNA. The other 97% of the physical DNA is currently deemed 'junk DNA' by science.
The DNA is packed around proteins to make a structure called a chromosome. There are 23 pairs of chromosomes per cell, with one molecule of DNA each, which means 46 chromosomes and 46 molecules of DNA within each cell. There are 37.2 trillion cells in the human body, thus there are over 1700 trillion molecules of DNA within the body.
What does the DNA do?
Most of us know that the DNA is the part of us that dictates the physical attributes of a person. It is the thing that says; you'll have blonde hair and blue eyes etc. These attributes appear to be immutable and dictated and decided by the DNA and our ancestry.
However, new information and research is now showing us the DNA also holds emotional information, not just from us and our experiences in life, but also from our ancestors and their experiences. Epigenetics is the science that is bringing this research to the forefront and is showing us that the emotional traumas of our ancestors imprints within the cell and is passed on down through the generations. It appears that this passing down happens for at least 6 generations, meaning that within your DNA you will carry the imprints and traumas of your ancestors up to 6 generations back.
Research is now showing us that we are now prone to having the same trauma and fight/flight response as our ancestors would have had within their extreme traumas, even though we are not having the same trauma in our lives. An example of this would be, if we have ancestors who experienced a massive trauma, such as being interned in a concentration camp, even though we have not had the physical experience ourselves, the trauma of the experience imprints in our DNA and will lead us to having similar fight/flight responses of perhaps panic and anxiety when exposed to any circumstances in our lives that our cells deems similar to the trauma of internment.
This is one of the really interesting things about our DNA and how it aids us in, or, keeps us from, creating change in our lives, but, I'll go into this in more details over future blog posts...
Obviously, I'm not a scientist of any sort, however, the following is a brief and concise layman's summary of the physical setup of DNA to give you some idea of how the metaphysics of DNA works for creating change.
Physically your DNA is a part of your biology found within the nucleus of the cell. A part of the DNA is made up of genes. Human beings have 23,000 genes and these genes account for 3% of the DNA. The other 97% of the physical DNA is currently deemed 'junk DNA' by science.
The DNA is packed around proteins to make a structure called a chromosome. There are 23 pairs of chromosomes per cell, with one molecule of DNA each, which means 46 chromosomes and 46 molecules of DNA within each cell. There are 37.2 trillion cells in the human body, thus there are over 1700 trillion molecules of DNA within the body.
What does the DNA do?
Most of us know that the DNA is the part of us that dictates the physical attributes of a person. It is the thing that says; you'll have blonde hair and blue eyes etc. These attributes appear to be immutable and dictated and decided by the DNA and our ancestry.
However, new information and research is now showing us the DNA also holds emotional information, not just from us and our experiences in life, but also from our ancestors and their experiences. Epigenetics is the science that is bringing this research to the forefront and is showing us that the emotional traumas of our ancestors imprints within the cell and is passed on down through the generations. It appears that this passing down happens for at least 6 generations, meaning that within your DNA you will carry the imprints and traumas of your ancestors up to 6 generations back.
Research is now showing us that we are now prone to having the same trauma and fight/flight response as our ancestors would have had within their extreme traumas, even though we are not having the same trauma in our lives. An example of this would be, if we have ancestors who experienced a massive trauma, such as being interned in a concentration camp, even though we have not had the physical experience ourselves, the trauma of the experience imprints in our DNA and will lead us to having similar fight/flight responses of perhaps panic and anxiety when exposed to any circumstances in our lives that our cells deems similar to the trauma of internment.
This is one of the really interesting things about our DNA and how it aids us in, or, keeps us from, creating change in our lives, but, I'll go into this in more details over future blog posts...
