A short spoken monologue (YouTube video) explaining that mental images and thoughts translate into different blood chemistries (e.g., love → dopamine, oxytocin, growth hormone; fear → stress hormones) which in turn alter cellular behavior and genetic activity. The speaker asserts that changing thoughts—rather than directly manipulating cells—is sufficient to change one’s genetics.
Chapters
Whatever picture you hold in your mind, the brain translates that into complementary chemistry. If I have a picture of love, my brain releases wonderful things into the blood, like dopamine for pleasure, oxytocin to bond with others, a growth hormone. So when you're in love, you're releasing this growth hormone, which enhances your vitality. And that's why when people fall in love, they get so healthy. They say, oh, look how they glow. They're so in love. And I go, this is the chemistry of the blood engaging the behavior of the cells. What if I'm holding a picture of something that scares me? Well, you're not going to release love chemistry. You start to release stress hormones that affect the immune system. I say, well, that's a different chemistry. I go, yeah, different chemistry leads to a different genetic activity. Your thoughts are being turned into complementary chemistry, which then controls your genetics. If I want to change my genetics, do I have to go in and change the cells? I said, no, it's changing your thought. That's all you have to do.
