당신의 생각이 뇌와 세포와 유전자를 바꾸는 방법

피터김의 체험나누기에서

How Your Thoughts Change Your Brain, Cells and Genes

Debbie Hampton Writer, blogger, hot yoga enthusiast, brain injury survivor

 

매순간, 하루의 어느때든지, 당신의 몸은 물리적으로 반응하고, 말그대로 변화하고 있는데, 당신의 의식을 통해 흐르는 생각이 그렇게 만든다.

그런 원리는 자꾸 자꾸 증명되고 있는데, 어떤 일을 생각하는 것이 당신의 뇌가 신경전달을 하도록 만든다는 것이며, 또 그게 몸의 기관들과 신경계를 통해 교신하면서 화학적 이야기를 전달하고 있다. 신경전달계는 몸의 모든 기관을 통제하는데, 그것은 홀몬에서 소화까지 통제하며, 또 행복감이나 슬픔, 압력을 느끼게 만든다.

 

Every minute of every day, your body is physically reacting, literally changing, in response to the thoughts that run through your mind.

It’s been shown over and over again that just thinking about something can cause your brain to release neurotransmitters, chemical messengers that allow it to communicate with parts of itself and your nervous system. Neurotransmitters control virtually all of your body’s functions, from hormones to digestion to feeling happy, sad, or stressed.

 

최근의 연구는Studies  생각하므로써 비젼을 개선하고 체형이나 체력을 강화함을 증명한다. 플라시보 효과 The placebo effect는 가짜 수술이나 가짜 약을 먹을때 효과가 나온다는 것인데, 그것은 생각의 힘때문에 발생한다.  기대감이나 학습된 사고방식은 뇌의 화학과 뇌 회로를 변화시킴이 증명된다, 이는 실제로 생리적 결과를 만들며, 또 인지할 수있는 효과가 나온다, 그래서 열이 내리고, 면역반응이 저하되기도 하고, 홀몬수준이 높아지며 또 분노가 내려가게끔한다.  

 

Studies have shown that thoughts alone can improve vision, fitness, and strength. The placebo effect, as observed with fake operations and sham drugs, for example, works because of the power of thought. Expectancies and learned associations have been shown to change brain chemistry and circuitry which results in real physiological and cognitive outcomes, such as less fatigue, lower immune system reaction, elevated hormone levels, and reduced anxiety.

 

린 맥카가트는 아래 제목의 글을 기고했는데, "의식의 실험 : 당신의 생각을 이용해서 삶을 바꾸고 세상을 바꾸기" 라는 글이다:

상당한 규모의 연구가 의식의 세계에 대해 전개되었는데, 지난 30년간 저명한 과학연구소들이 참여하면서 수행된 연구였다. 그 결과는 생각이 모든 기계장치로부터 복잡한 생명유기체까지 영향을 끼치는 능력이 있음을 증명한 것이다. 그 증거는 사람의 생각과 의도가 실제적으로 물리적인 성질을 가진다는 것이다. 이것은 정말 세상을 뒤흔드는 놀라운 성과이다.

우리가 하는 모든 생각이 구체적인 에너지인데, 그 에너지로 변화의 힘이 나온다. 생각은 하나이 존재일뿐 아니라 다른 존재에게 영향을 끼치는 존재이기도 하다.

 

In The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World, Lynne McTaggart writes:

A sizable body of research exploring the nature of consciousness, carried on for more than thirty years in prestigious scientific institutions around the world, shows that thoughts are capable of affecting everything from the simplest machines to the most complex living beings. This evidence suggests that human thoughts and intentions are an actual physical “something” with astonishing power to change our world. Every thought we have is tangible energy with the power to transform. A thought is not only a thing; a thought is a thing that influences other things.

 

당신의 생각은 뇌를 조각한다  Your Thoughts Sculpt Your Brain

 

당신의 모든 생각은 신경화학적 변화를 야기한다, 이는 일시적이기도 하고 상당히 지속적이기도 하다. 가령 사람이 의식적으로 감사함을 표명하는 연습을 할때 그는 신경물질의 보상이 치솟게 되는데, 도파민이 올라오고, 정신의 경고나 깨어남을 체험한다, 이것은 정신이 신경화학 분비계와 연관이 있음을 보여준다. 

 

Every thought you have causes neurochemical changes, some temporary and some lasting. For instance, when people consciously practice gratitude, they get a surge of rewarding neurotransmitters, like dopamine, and experience a general alerting and brightening of the mind, probably correlated with more of the neurochemical norepinephrine.

In one study, college students deeply in love were shown pictures of their sweeties, and their brains become more active in the caudate nucleus, a reward center, giving them that in-love swoon. When they stopped looking at the pictures, their reward centers went back to sleep.

What flows through your mind also sculpts your brain in permanent ways. Think of your mind as the movement of information through your nervous system, which on a physical level is all the electrical signals running back and forth, most of which is happening below your conscious awareness. As a thought travels through your brain, neurons fire together in distinctive ways based on the specific information being handled, and those patterns of neural activity actually change your neural structure.

Busy regions of the brain start making new connections with each other, and existing synapses, the connections between neurons, that experience more activity get stronger, increasingly sensitive, and start building more receptors. New synapses are also formed.

One example of this is the well-known London cab driver studies which showed that the longer someone had been driving a taxi, the larger their hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in visual-spatial memory. Their brains literally expanded to accommodate the cognitive demands of navigating London’s tangle of streets. Research has also proven the numerous benefits of meditation for your brain and shown that meditation produces measurable results, from changes in grey matter volume to reduced activity in the “me” centers of the brain to enhanced connectivity between brain regions.

 

당신의 생각은 세포를 프로그램한다  Your Thoughts Program Your Cells

 

A thought is an electrochemical event taking place in your nerve cells producing a cascade of physiological changes. The article “How Your Thoughts Program Your Cells” explains it this way:

There are thousands upon thousands of receptors on each cell in our body. Each receptor is specific to one peptide, or protein. When we have feelings of anger, sadness, guilt, excitement, happiness or nervousness, each separate emotion releases its own flurry of neuropeptides. Those peptides surge through the body and connect with those receptors which change the structure of each cell as a whole. Where this gets interesting is when the cells actually divide. If a cell has been exposed to a certain peptide more than others, the new cell that is produced through its division will have more of the receptor that matches with that specific peptide. Likewise, the cell will also have less receptors for peptides that its mother/sister cell was not exposed to as often.

So, if you have been bombarding your cells with peptides from negative thoughts, you are literally programming your cells to receive more of the same negative peptides in the future. What’s even worse is that you’re lessening the number of receptors of positive peptides on the cells, making yourself more inclined towards negativity.

Every cell in your body is replaced about every two months. So, the good news is, you can reprogram your pessimistic cells to be more optimistic by adopting positive thinking practices, like mindfulness and gratitude, for permanent results.

당신의 생각은 유전자를 활성화시킨다  Your Thoughts Activate Your Genes

 

You are speaking to your genes with every thought you have. The fast growing field of epigenetics is showing that who you are is the product of the things that happen to you in your life, which change the way your genes operate. Genes are actually switched on or off depending on your life experiences, and your genes and lifestyle form a feedback loop. Your life doesn’t alter the genes you were born with. What changes is your genetic activity, meaning the hundreds of proteins, enzymes, and other chemicals that regulate your cells.

Only about 5 percent of gene mutations are thought to be the direct cause of health issues. That leaves 95 percent of genes linked to disorders acting as an influencers, which can be influenced one way or another, depending on life factors. Of course, many of these are beyond your control, like childhood events, but some are entirely within your control, such as diet, exercise, stress management, and emotional states. The last two factors are directly dependent on your thoughts.

Your biology doesn’t spell your destiny, and you aren’t controlled by your genetic makeup. Instead, your genetic activity is largely determined by your thoughts, attitudes, and perceptions. Epigenetics is showing that your perceptions and thoughts control your biology, which places you in the driver’s seat. By changing your thoughts, you can influence and shape your own genetic readout.

You have a choice in determining what input your genes receive. The more positive the input, the more positive the output of your genes. Epigenetics is allowing lifestyle choices to be directly traced to the genetic level and is proving the mind-body connection irrefutable. At the same time, research into epigenetics is also emphasizing how important positive mental self-care practices are because they directly impact our physical health.

Meditation and mindfulness put you in contact with the source of the mind-body system, giving your thoughts direct access to beneficial genetic activity which also affects how well your cells function, via the genetic activity inside the cells.

 

 

 

당신의 생각을 당신을 위해서 사용하시오

Use Your Thoughts For You

 

You have much more power than ever believed to influence your physical and mental realities. Your mindset is recognized by your body — right down to the genetic level, and the more you improve your mental habits, the more beneficial response you’ll get from your body. You can’t control what has happened in the past, which shaped the brain you have today, programmed your cells, and caused certain genes to switch on.

However, you do have the power in this moment and going forward to choose your perspective and behavior, which will change your brain, cells, and genes.

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