DNA Studies Show Mind and Body Are One

Here’s how DNA can be thought of in the context of the mind-over-matter or matter-over-mind debate ...
DNA Studies Show Mind and Body Are One
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Tara MacIsaac
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Here’s how DNA can be thought of in the context of the mind-over-matter or matter-over-mind debate:

Matter-over-mind = Your DNA determines your personality traits (combined with some external influences or learned behavior, which also seem to be more a function of the physical reality around you than your personal power of mind).

Mind-over-matter = You willfully determine which personality traits from within your DNA are activated. How you choose to view your life and live your life physically affects your DNA.

Both are true. DNA studies continue to move toward closing the circuit between mind and matter—between your mind and your body. 

DNA studies continue to move toward closing the circuit between mind and matter—your mind and your body.