Introduction
The crop of new books in the field of energy psychology desribe a remarkable set of interventions such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), EFT (Emotional Freedom Therapy), TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique), and others. These interventions are amazingly effective. They routinely shift psychological traumas, sometimes deep-seated chronic psychoses, in just a few sessions, and sometimes in one session. They have also contributed to the cure of a wide variety of organic ailments. And the database of sound clinical studies on these methods continues to grow. As a result, they have been adopted by thousands of physicians, social workers, psychiatrists and psychologists.
There is no doubt that these methods work, and often yield spectacular results. Yet the books describing these methods invariably declare themselves to be baffled by the mechanisms by which these new energy interventions create their effects.
The Genie in Your Genes is a breakthrough new book by author and publisher Dawson Church, Ph.D. It synthsizes studies from cell biology and genetic expression to explain the precise physical pathways by which such healing occurs. It shows that notions of "suble" energies are not required to explain miraculous healing, and that the centuries-old line of research into the body's electromagnetic fields has already supplied us with excellent answers to the flow of information through our cellular signalling systems.
The science behind our emerging understanding of the link between behavior, consciousness, and well-being has the potential to cause as big a shift in our paradigm of health and medicine as Einstein's theory of relativity had on physics a century ago. The idea that "your thoughts create your reality" has gone from a metaphysical article of faith fifty years ago, to the object of serious scientific scrutiny today, as medicine discovers quantum physics, and rediscovers electromagnetism. A series of remarkable experiments, published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, chronicle the effects of consciousnes on the DNA molecule, and demonstrate that marked molecular changes are observed when an observer's intentions are projected into the molecules.
Books such as Bruce Lipton's The Biology of Belief (published by Dawson Church) chart the precise biochemical mechanisms by which genes are turned on and off by our thoughts. Movies such as What the Bleep are popularizing the application of quantum physics to happiness and wellness. Dawson's exciting talk on The Genie in Your Genes looks at this and other current research, and its exciting implications for the future of the practice of medicine, and its expected effects on how we shape our health.