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inherit
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Wilson
yesterday
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Thoughts and beliefs do indeed bring about physical alterations. They can even — and often do — change genetic messages.
There are diseases that people believe are inherited, carried from one generation to another by a faulty genetic communication. Obviously, many people with, for example, a genetic heritage of arthritis do not come down with the disease themselves, while others indeed are so afflicted. The difference is one of belief.
The people who have accepted the suggestion uncritically that they will inherit such a malady do then seem to inherit it: they experience the symptoms. Actually, the belief itself may have changed a healthy genetic message into an unhealthy one. Ideally, a change of belief would remedy the situation.
People are not simply swung willy-nilly by one negative suggestion or another, however. Each person has an entire body of beliefs and suggestions — and these are quite literally reflected in the physical body itself.
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(4:28 p.m. I read the session to Jane. “As you read that I again got what was coming up tomorrow,” she said. “About the confusion that comes when you start trying to change beliefs, ‘cause they’re all raveled in together. But that’s not right either,” she added, meaning there was much more to be learned.)
