Belief controls biology what you believe creates your life on the inside and on the outside. And I will explain why it's very difficult to change your beliefs even when you talk to yourself it doesn't work. I will give you the neurological reason why it is difficult and then I will show you how easy it can be to change your belief. Perception controls biology because how we see life determines our behavior controls our genes, and can even rewrite the genetic code. But since our perceptions are sometimes right, and they're sometimes wrong, then it's better to call them belief so that it is belief that controls biology. You're not a victim of your genetics, that you are responsible for what unfolds in your life, what we talked about single cells yesterday, today, I'm going to talk about a community of cells. So when you look at yourself, you're not a single entity, but you are community of 50 trillion cells. But it's important to understand the word community. Every cell is intelligent, but when they're in a community, they give up their personal intelligence and respond to the central voice. So that the community represents a thing, one thing called an organism and in that community, that a cell must follow what the central voice is, and if the central voice says to die, the cells will die. So the central voice is the mind. And I will be talking about the nature of the two parts of the mind, and why we have trouble sometimes controlling our life. So what I would talk about is the role of how this mind works. First, there are signals from the environment, the internal and external environment, the brain, the function of the brain, is to perceive the signals, and then interpret those signals, and then send the information to the cells to control the behavior and the genetics. So the function of the brain is perception, and from that creates the mind. Now we have heard of something called the placebo effect, right? The placebo effect is when you have a very positive thought that something can heal you. Even if it's wheat, you don't know it, but it's a sugar pill. But you believe it's the real medicine, then you can heal yourself with that. So the pill didn't heal you. It was the thought that healed you. Statistics reveal that one third of all medical healings, including surgery are the result of the placebo effect. Now, the issue is that the placebo effect is when you have positive thinking, there was a question this morning, what about negative thinking. And this is what medicine does not tell you is that there is negative thinking and it's called the no placebo effect. And in the same power, that positive thinking can heal you. negative thinking can kill you, they're both the same effect. One is more positive one is more negative, but the effects are exactly the same on your health, one will heal you and the other can make you sick. The point is, is that negative thinking can create all the effects of chemotherapy. Now think about this, if a doctor tells you you have a disease, or the doctor tells you you're going to die, and you believe the doctor because he's the professional, the belief will give you a disease and can cause you to die. So belief becomes an important part of medicine. Now, many of you have heard about the drug Prozac. Every year, billions of dollars are spent on buying Prozac. And here's the surprise that the Prozac is no better than a sugar pill so that it is a placebo drug. And yet the people who take it believe in the drug so much, it makes them better. So if you believe that something is good for you, it will be good. And if you believe that it's harmful for you, it will be bad.
In the United States in the south, there's a religious group called the Baptist fundamentalists. And this one group works themselves up into a state of ecstasy, religious ecstasy, and they believe God protects them. And so they will work with snakes poisonous snakes, like rattlesnakes to end they will even get bitten by the snake, and nothing happens to them. Now look at this though, some of them some of them will drink strychnine and toxic doses. And when they're in that state of belief, it does not affect them. So if you can drink toxic poison, then then why why do we worry so much about the toxins or the food and in Err and all that, because we have a belief that the toxins can kill us. And even on the on the cigarettes on the package, it tells you, this will kill you. But even though I know this, I will not drink strychnine. And why? Because my belief is not as strong as their belief. So if we were growing up and programmed with stronger beliefs, we would be more powerful than we are now. Belief is important about everything, including our health, our aging and the world that we live in. So the question is, if we are so able to be healthy and young, why do we get sick, and one of the most important reasons is stress. I will now show you about how stress works using cells and then people. So when when the cells see something that gives growth, they move to the signal with their arms open to take it in. But if the cells see toxins, then what they do is they move away from the signal and close themselves down, cells cannot be open and closed. At the same time, cells cannot move forwards and backwards. At the same time, the conclusion, cells can be in growth or they can be in protection, but they can't be in both at the same time. But the same thing happens in humans, the mind will perceive the environment and if it sees what it believes to be threatening, it will send a signal to the cells telling them that the environment is not supporting. And the system is called the hypothalamic hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. The hypothalamus is the part of the brain that interprets the perception. When the hypothalamus sees stress, it wants to tell the whole body something is going on. So it sends a signal to the pituitary gland, which is called the master gland. And that gland sends signals to 50 trillion cells, but in the if it's a threat, it will send the signals to the adrenal glands and the common understanding of the adrenal glands is fight or flight. Then this adrenal glands release stress hormones to the body. And the first thing the stress hormones do and I'll make a quote from a physiology textbook. The stress hormones cause the blood to preferentially go to the arms and legs. And why would the blood why the preference for arms and legs, right that's so you can run or fights but there was you miss something when when I say it that way. If the blood is preferentially going to the arms and legs, where was the blood before it was going to the arms and legs.
