“If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?” – Rumi https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_12.mp4 We now know that practices like meditation, energy psychology, Qi Gong, altruism, compassion and a positive attitude boost our health. When we extend them beyond our families to the whole of society they can have …
“Based on what we know of the plasticity of the brain, we can think of things like happiness and compassion as skills thatare no different from learning to play a musical instrument or tennis…it is possible to train our brains to be happy.” – Neuroscientist Richard Davidson https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_11.mp4 Everyone wants to be happy, yet most …
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.” – Samuel Johnson, Elizabethan lexicographer https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_10.mp4 Traumatic experiences – …
“But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not your life?” – Michel Foucault https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_9.mp4 I have many physician friends, and they often tell me stories of miraculous healings. Human beings are used to gradual change, like plants growing, people aging, and the …
“Research is the highest form of adoration.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_8.mp4 Scientific discovery sometimes proceeds incrementally, step by step. But some breakthroughs, such as Einstein’s theory of relativity, happen in sudden intuitive flashes of consciousness. Research dating back as early as the 1940s has shown that our bodies can perceive events that haven’t …
“Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.” – E. O. Wilson https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_7.mp4 Distant healing has been practiced for millennia, and while it is well documented, science is not yet able to explain how. When a healer is in the …
“If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same change happens automatically.The truth is: Love heals.” – Bernie Siegel, MD, Love, Medicine & Miracles https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_6.mp4 Some ancient civilizations believed …
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” – Blaise Pascal https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_5.mp4 In Lesson 5 we take a close look at piezoelectricity, a form of energy generated by mechanical friction. Your cells use piezoelectricity to communicate. Connective tissue (the cartilage, ligaments and tendons …
“I’m deeply sure that we will never be able to understand the essence of life, if we restrict ourselves to themolecular level… A surprising subtlety of biological reactions is stipulated by the mobility of electronsand can be explained only from the position of quantum mechanics.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate, 1968 https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_4.mp4 We’re all familiar …
“The longest journey is the journey inward, for he who has chosen his destiny has started uponhis quest for the source of his being.” – Dag Hammarskjold, former United Nations Secretary General https://d3pdddmurjopkc.cloudfront.net/genie_online_course_3.mp4 Headlines in the media often talk about discoveries of a gene linked to a disease. It’s assumed if that gene can be …
