Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effects

"The genetics lab at the University of Utah, a department that studies the role of genes in addiction, says that someone’s genetic makeup will never doom them to becoming an addict.28 Polk confirms that, despite any genetic connections, someone cannot become an alcoholic without repeatedly drinking alcohol."

From "This Naked Mind by Annie Grace

By redirecting our attention, we can literally change our brains, creating more gray matter in the very areas that help us learn, help us perform, and allow us to manifest. As the brain adapts, it makes alterations that can produce dramatic and positive effects on everything from Parkinson’s disease to chronic pain to attention deficit hyperactivit

The latest research supports the notion that we have a natural ability to change the brain and body by thought alone, so that it looks biologically like some future event has already happened. Because you can make thought more real than anything else, you can change who you are from brain cell to gene, given the right understanding.

We used to think that genes created disease and that we were at the mercy of our DNA. So if many people in someone’s family died of heart disease, we assumed that their chances of also developing heart disease would be pretty high. But we now know through the science of epigenetics that it’s not the gene that creates disease but the environment th

A new state of being creates a new personality … a new personality produces a new personal reality. How will you know whether this meditative practice has activated your three brains to produce the intended effect? Simple: you will feel different as a result of investing in the process.