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As I listened to the episode one question came up around how epigenetics relates to healing:

We know that trauma can cause an epigenetic reaction. But what happens to our genome when healing happens? I understand that on an energetic and psychological level these ancestral patterns can be integrated and brought into awareness and healed through practices like etioanalysis.

But do we continue to pass on these inherited traumas if they've been gene encoded or is there an epigenetic response that can happen in the healing so we can pass the healing down to our future generations?

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Jul 14, 2021Liked by Omar Shaker, Paul G

Hello Paul,

Epigenetic's answer expresses itself through protein chains that build on DNA and exacerbate or suppress some genes to adapt to a situation or a trauma.

My hypothesis is that, the same way the production of these chains is triggered by emotions, it can be reversed through awareness and trauma resolution induced by an EtioAnalysis session.

I hope to be able in the future to test this hypothesis. The protocol would be simple, analyze the epigenetic making of a few volunteers, work with them on their traumas and dissonances with EtioAnalysis, and have a subsequent DNA analyze to see if we observe a change in their epigenetic map.

If this hypothesis is proven right, people who gained awareness of their trauma(s) should not transmit the epigenetic attach to them any longer to the descendants, because they would have been reverted.

I hope this helps

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@JM thank you for this answer. I've always wondered about this and whether or not we get more positive epigenetic reactions to the healing process. If you need a guinea pig for this study, I'll gladly be poked and prodded to find this out.

JM, I'm also wondering in your sessions in the last year, have you observed or wondered about any epigenetic shifts that we're going through as a species due to the pandemic: the lockdown, the trauma health professionals faced on the front lines, and everything in between...

And if so, curious to know what kind of traits we are developing as a species in response to this global experience we went through

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Hello Paul,

I am not able to monitor the epigenetic evolution through EtioAnalysis, only its physical and emotional expression.

But as you guessed it, practitioners of the discipline observed a shift in the topics that came up during the sessions since the beginning of the pandemic.

Two recurrent ones are the feeling of claustrophobie and loss of agency that were triggered by confinements and movement limitation measures put in place.

It's still to early to have a full picture of the impact the pandemic will have on individuals and societies but there will be long time effects

I hope this helps

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