Unleasing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
by Dr. Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.

Dr. Bruce Lipton is a Cellular Biologist and former medical school professor whose research shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology in and of themselves.  Rather, DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our thoughts and beliefs.

    * Until recently, conventional thought held that the human brain was not functional until some time after birth, in that many of its structures are not fully differentiated (developed) until that time. However, this assumption has been invalidated by the pioneering work of Thomas Verny (1981) and David Chamberlain (1988), among others, who have revealed the vast sensory and learning capabilities expressed by the fetal nervous system.  The significance of this understanding is that perceptions experienced by the fetus would have a profound effect upon its physiology and development.

    * Research reveals that parents act as genetic engineers for their children in the months before conception.  In the final stages of egg and sperm maturation, a process called genomic imprinting adjusts the activity of specific groups of genes that will shape the character of the child yet to be conceived.

    * Once the child is conceived, an impressive body of research is documenting how important parents' attitudes are in the development of the fetus.  Again Verny writes: "In fact, the great weight of the scientific evidence that has emerged over the last decade demands that we reevaluate the mental and emotional abilities of unborn children.  Awake or asleep, the studies show, they [unborn children] are constantly tuned into their mother's every action, thought and feeling.  From the moment of conception, the experience in the womb shapes the brain and lays the groundwork for personality, emotional temperament, and the power of higher thought."

    * Mother and fathers are in the conception and pregnancy business together, even though it is the mother who carries the child in her womb.  What the father does profoundly affects the mother, which in turn affects the developing child.

    * Between birth and 2 years of age, the human brain predominantly operates at the lowest EEG frequency, known as Delta waves... A child begins to spend more time at higher levels of EEG activity, characterized as Theta, between 2 and 6 years of age.  Hypnotherapists drop their patients' brain wave activity into Delta and Theta because these low frequency brain  waves put them into a more suggestible, programmable state.  This gives us an important clue as to how children, whose brains are mostly operating at these same frequencies between birth and six years of age, can download the incredible volume of information they need to thrive in their environment.

    * Young children carefully observe their environment and download the worldly wisdom offered by parents directly into their subconscious memory.  As a result, their parents' behavior and beliefs become their own.