That sounds like the victim blaming that went on decades ago, when mothers of autistic children were blamed for not being motherly enough. While explaining how the mind impacts the brain, she noted that there is research somewhere about women who have been abused being more likely to have children with autism. can impact the biological imprint of our brains, and it is incredible. This is wonderful news, to know that mental hygiene practices such as yoga, meditation, mindfulness, etc. We can alter our own DNA? In her words, we can do our own brain surgery? Pure and beautiful madness! 1:26) - we are able to change the shape of our DNA for the better.” pg. “So the takeaway here is that when we operate in our normal love design - which is being made in God’s image (Gen. If most mental illnesses are indeed a product of thought, how crucial it is to manage one’s thought life! From that, I always assumed all other mental illnesses were biologically inherited as well. This is mind-boggling news to me as I was always told bipolar disorder, for example, was genetic. “Research shows that 75 to 98 percent of mental, physical, and behavioral illness comes from one’s thought life” pg. Continue at your own risk.įrom the get-go I was dumfounded by some of the statements in this book. Please note that I may share a spoiler or two in order to provide some real feedback on how I felt about this reading. Let me preface this review by saying I am a Christian, and as such, I appreciated this author’s attempt at combining religion with science to sell the main idea.

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