You can change your body with thought control

July 22nd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Can you control your own hormones and cells?

This is a bit of break from the norm for me. I am interested in personal development, as you know, however I am interested in the science of personal development also. I have been looking at cell biology for the last few years, not studying per se more like reading with interest.

Last year I came across someone called Dr. Bruce Lipton, an internationally recognised expert on cell biology. For the last few years he has been teaching and giving seminars on the Biology of belief. He believes that, through the power of our thoughts and beliefs, we can control our biology and our cells and ultimately our whole world.

His books have been instrumental in changing my thoughts on personal development and given me inspiration. I am not trying to sell his books here so you can check out his blog to get more information, ‘The biology of belief’ is a great book to start with.

Can we control our hormones?

We control our hormones every day without realising it. When you are in a stressful situation you release a signal to your brain which in turn releases adrenalin into the bloodstream to help you deal with the change (fight or flight response). You sometimes cope with this by taking deep breaths and your adrenalin levels return to normal. This is a very simplistic view on it and it is more complicated than this. However it illustrates how we can control our hormones to a degree.

Can we do this with all of our hormones?

I am now of the belief that we can do this, we just need to know how to talk to the unconscious brain which will then interact with our bodies hormones which will then have a direct impact on the bodies cells.

There are literally trillions of cells in our bodies all talking to each other and interacting through an unseen force called energy. Energy is everywhere and nowhere, it is an unseen force and directly affects our whole lives. Our thoughts affect our energy force which in turn affects the way people interact with us which in turn affects how they interact with other people and so on and so forth. This means that the heated argument you had with your partner yesterday could have an affect on the whole world, now that’s just crazy to believe that isn’t it!

This means we are, literally, all connected to each other with this energy. Currently you might believe the world is poisoned with all the insane and horrendous events taking place. We could be fueling this toxic energy by believing this.

I hate listening to the news and do not read newspapers as they infect us with thoughts of murder, rape, violence, war. I know these things go on in the world but I do not want to know the gory details because I become extremely angry. I have sometimes caught the news on the car radio and found myself upset and angry when I have heard a news story. The awful thing is that the news reader reads it in such a way that it doesn’t sound all that bad, she has a cheery little voice when reading out that someone’s head was blown off last night in the local pub.

Hormones: our first step to control

There are studies being done looking at fat burning hormones and how they can control weight. I am currently playing with the idea of trying to release these hormones naturally. By naturally I mean when not exercising and through direct thought control. Exercising is an important part of losing weight however I believe we will be able to release the hormones that burn fat with belief and with thought control.

If this is possible the implications on many aspects of our lives are huge. For example the drug industry would lose the power it currently enjoys, the health service would be directly affected, the ability for us to take control of our lives would change the world.

Of course this is all pie in the sky just now. Studies are just that: studies. They don’t prove anything and studies can be very biased.

Having said this I think it is a possibility that we will learn how to control our thoughts, then control the release of certain hormones and chemicals, which can then control the cells in our bodies.

Some ways to try and reach the brain

I have been trying to come up ways of directly communicating with the brain and the unconscious mind, which is more powerful than the conscious brain, and I have come up with the following:

Trick the brain: it may be possible to trick the brain into releasing hormones into the bloodstream. You might have heard that the brain cannot distinguish actual events from imagined events. So for example if we were to imagine that we were exercising in our minds would the brain then release chemicals and hormones to burn energy?
Write to the brain: By writing something over and over again it may be possible that the brain will take the information you write and form a belief which in turn affects the chemicals and hormones released into the body.

Imagine writing: Every time I go to work I feel happy

Hypnotise the brain: This is the same as the writing example above, saying something over and over again forms a belief which in turn elicits a response from the brain which in turn releases appropriate chemicals and hormones into the blood stream.

For example telling yourself over and over again that you are an extremely calm person may change your personality from being that of an angry person to that of a controlled and calm person.

These are just some ways you might be able to access the unconscious therefore accessing the brains control centre which in turn accesses the chemicals and hormones released into your body.

The bigger picture

I have only touched the tip of the iceberg here and I have presented it in a very simplistic way. I have come up with my own possibilities of what humans could achieve if we were in control of our hormones and our cells such as weight control, mental health issues, disease, there are literally thousands of ways this could benefit our lives should it happen to be true.

What if it’s a case of simply believing it’s true and then work from that premise?

Next week I will be writing about the unseen energy, as mentioned above.

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Comment by Edward Mills on 23 July 2007:

Great post Steven

It reminds me of the scene in the Secret when Dennis Waitley talked about how Olympic athletes were monitored while doing visualizations and that the exact same muscles fired in the exact same sequence as when they were doing their events in “real life.” I truly believe that we can control our body with our mind. And you’ve started a great topic here!

Comment by Fran on 24 July 2007:

Great post. This is really useful.
Everyone can surely do it. We just need the right focus and control.

Comment by Mitch on 24 July 2007:

Liked your article on the Hormones, I know how important hormones are to the body, especially if they get out of balance.
I’ve book marked your site.

http://www.selfimageimprovement.com

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 24 July 2007:

Thanks Ed

I appreciate your comments, there is a lot of exciting work going on in this field.

Mitch

Thanks for your comments.

Comment by Rob on 25 July 2007:

Hi Steve,
I read about this briefly a while back. I think it was in the Daily Mail of all places…

I certainly believe that this is possible. The thing that makes it difficult for most people to accept and believe however is that the results are unlikely to be instantantaneous due to the natural resistance of nearly all of us, so most people who may try it out will give up before seeing any results and write it off as not true.

Our belief in scarcity is our biggest downfall.
Rob

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 25 July 2007:

Hi Rob

Thanks for your comments. you are right about not getting immediate results. I think for this to work it requires a total change in belief about this, once that hurdle has been overcome i think anything would be possible.

Imagine 50 years ago someone saying it would be possible to control your heart rate, however this is not considered anything special today. I think the same will happen with cell control.

Steve

Comment by Alan on 26 July 2007:

This is a great article. I agree that it can be done with our other hormones. We need to train our mind if we want to achieve it.

Comment by Karen Lynch-Live the Power on 26 July 2007:

Interesting post! I think that we will be
surprised when more and more studies are
completed! I think our minds are more
powerful than we realize!
I think I shall go and imagine and daydream
about a great workout!

Comment by Kathy Marcher on 5 August 2007:

Hi, I was led to your article in a strange way. However, that is not important. What matters to me, at least, is that I have been searching the Internet for the last couple of years for information that before I found you article, I thought to be either non-exixtant, or very deeply buried.

I’m no Doctor or anything like that. But I have strongly believed that the subconscious mind is very powerful and full of a huge amount of information. But also very hard for the conscious mind to access. I have been trying to access my subconscious mind on my own for a long time, and except for the occasionsl glimpse of something that flashes by so briefly, that I usually can’t even grasp it as it goes by and is gone - just the esscense of a concept. (If that made any sense).

Anyway, of the few people I’ve tried to explain this to, they think I’m crazy. So, I was elated to have found your article, complete with links to others, not to mention - HIGHLY EDUCATED “others”, who also believe in the same concept.

I sure would be excited to find out if anyone is actually able to not only be able to do it themselves, but to be able to share the knowledge of HOW to access the subconscious brain while in a conscious state.

Thank you so much for your post.

Comment by MDB on 9 August 2007:

Some very interesting ideas. So many things are mind over matter, I wonder where the boundaries end.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 9 August 2007:

Hi Alan, Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.

Karen, that might not be as crazy as it sounds. It has been shown that if we think about doing exercise we are using the same muscles as if we were actually doing them, depending on on your level of concentration and imagination.

Hi Karen, your enthusiasm for this has come across very clearly. I would be interested in how you found this article, I am always keen to know how synchronicity leads people in their lives. I would also be interested to know what you have been trying to access your unconscious.

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 9 August 2007:

Hi MDB, thanks for your comments on this.

Comment by Jack Bergin on 15 August 2007:

While I believe that hormones can indeed be released through sheer thought, I do not believe at this current time that there can be any major effects achieved by doing so.

I love the idea of being able to release a burst of adrenaline while sitting in an armchair. This could be done to some level by visualising oneself in a dangerous situation. But I believe it takes a real danger for one to become truly threatened, and so cannot think that any mind altering amount of adrenaline could be produced at will.

My point I suppose is this: I believe that one CAN control ones hormones, to some extent. But not in a manner that can cause any great benefit, other than satisfying a mere curiosity.

Any thoughts on this would be most interesting to hear.

Comment by maurice stone on 24 August 2007:

wow this is a very interesting site. I dont how ive come upon it. Ive just been searching google, looking up adreneline rushes. Ive been trough alot of struggles through my life, and ive seem to come to the conclusion to all of you guys answeres. I was looking up this on google becuase I can control my hormones. One hormone I can control very good is adrenaline. I can easily think of something very stressful and dramatic. Instantly my heart pumps and I can feel it going trough my head to my feet. Ive discovered the secret to were I can calm it down and bring it back within seconds. I know your wondering wow , and im lying, but i can assure you im not. Im wondering why this is like this also. I just need help. Ive been through conseling for my struggles and everything. Hopefully with someone on here, I can control it even better.

Comment by Matthew Cornell on 3 September 2007:

Interesting! I’d answer “of course you can control hormones”. As you point out, ever think of a situation (past or future - imagined) that made you upset or happy? That reminds me, I have to finish that report! Oh no.

Comment by Kathy Marcher on 7 September 2007:

Hi Steven, I’ve been hesitating to write anything, because I’m not quite sure who you were addressing in you comment:

“Hi Karen, your enthusiasm for this has come across very clearly. I would be interested in how you found this article, I am always keen to know how synchronicity leads people in their lives. I would also be interested to know what you have been trying to access your unconscious.”

It is clearly addressed to “Karen”, and there is a Karen who remarked right above me. You also responded to her comment in the same reply as you wrote the above which I put in quotation marks.

However, the rest of the content seems (at least to me) as if it much more addresses what I had written… so, I don’t know if I’m reading more into it than what is there, or if because I’ve never written in this blog before, perhaps the name Karen was typed in error?

Because I am so very unsure that you were addressing me at all, I have not responded. However if if you were in fact responding to me, I would be happy to answer anything you ask to the best of my ability. If you were in fact addressing Karen, then I am quite embarrassed and please accept my appology.

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 7 September 2007:

Hi Kathy, apologies for the confusion, I was addressing the question to you.

I was interested when you said:

“Hi, I was led to your article in a strange way. However, that is not important.”

Comment by Kathy Marcher on 7 September 2007:

Oh, O.K., well, thanks then. Acutally, I’m afraid you will be disappointed… On or around the date I made that post, on the local PBS Public TV channel (OETA), they were having one of their Donation Drives - or whatever they’re called. Anyway, there was this guy on, by the name of “Wayne Dire” whom I had never heard of before, but he was talking about some things that I found to be quite fascinating, although I didn’t really relate it, at least at the time, to what I found when I found your blog. But then, I became really disappointed in him after having listened to him repeatitively say how money is so unimportant to hiim, etc.. but then went straight to trying to sell his DVD as I saw it, cloaked in the word “Donation”. Well, I happened to be already thinking of writing a short article on hypocracy, and that just made up my mind to go ahead and write it. (However, I never did). But prior to deciding not to, I ‘Googled’ him and found many books, DVD’s, etc.. he was selling … and well, I was becoming really convinced that he was just a guy preaching one thing, while really using it to make money. So, while I was investigating a bit further, I guess I got a bit sidetracked and somehow ran into your blog. And after reading just a little bit of it, I decided that the guy can be a hypocrite if he wants, if in fact he really is, because he led me to your blog. I actually pretty much forgot about him at that point, because I had, as I think I mentioned in my post, been of the belief that if I could just get in touch with the part of my brain (which I considered to be the subconscious - now, I’m not quite so sure what it’s called), I could perhaps accomplish several things.

For one, I have hepatitis C. While never having become sick from it, I know that it could lead to more serious problems. That’s one thing that caused me to take interest in your posts. Another thing, and it is one that bothers me nearly on a daily basis, which is that while I’m 42 years old, I don’t think I should be forgetting where I put things all the time, yet I do. Sometimes something or other will trigger me to remember where I put whatever it was that I had misplaced, but more often than not, I either never find it, or run across it by accident at some later date, usually while looking for the latest thing I misplaced. It is quite frustrating, also, because I’ve always been quite sure that some part of my brain knows exactly where it is, but I can’t seem to access that part. It is quite frustrating and I’ve tried to explain my theory to a few people, who just brush it off as, “oh, you lose things on a daily basis”. Or they, like myself had seen that Oprah Winfrey show in which she featured a book called, The Secret”. At the time of watching the show, I didn’t really relate that either to what I’m searching for in my own brain, but others I’ve mentioned my theory to, just say, “Oh, yeah, and I suppose you have ‘The Secret’ also…..”

Anyway, I’ve got more intangeable thoughts on the subject, and was just really excited that maybe my ideas are really not so far fetched, after seeing that others, Doctors even are of the same belief. My father was a Physicist - received his Phd from Harvard, but never thought much of Quantum Physics, which, while much of it I don’t really understand, I find the fundamental idea of it fascinating myself. My Dad has been long retired now, is 81 years old and has Alzheimers. He barely remembers anything anymore related to all the years of work he did. (BTW, I don’t think my forgetting where I put stuff is some sort of early onset of Alzheimers, since I’ve been that way since I was a kid).

Well, I’m sure this has been pretty rambling and disjointed - it’s late, I was about to go to bed when I decided to check your blog once more before logging off.

Thanks for replying.

Kathy

Comment by Adam F. on 24 September 2007:

I was wondering, just today, if other people could also control their adrenaline levels like I do. So, I did what many other people with abnormalities do; I ‘googled’ it. Turns out I stumbled upon your website; fancy that.

Someone had mentioned that he can think about a stressful situation and his heart starts racing; I don’t need to do that at all. On demand, I cause my body to go into a hyperactive state with no more effort than it would take to breath.

At first, the sensation is a ‘buzzing’ throughout the body; which progresses to muscles shaking. It is, at this point, impossible to sit still. The adrenaline is much like a light switch; it’s only on when I want it to be. A short time after; my heart returns to its’ normal pace.

As a result, muscular strength increases extensively. I have also found that, while doing this, I experience very little muscular fatigue, until after I stop the adrenaline.

This actually led me to get a stretched blood vessel in my head at age 18. Using the added strength; I proceeded to dangerously lift all the weight (roughly 400+ lbs) on a leg press upwards of 40 times within a minute without proper breathing. Needless to say, blood pressure in my head nearly killed me; a stretched blood vessel followed.

Anyway, I thought I would share.

Comment by Adam F. on 24 September 2007:

I took another little read through, as I only grazed the responses the first time and stumbled upon this quote from Kathy;

“I sure would be excited to find out if anyone is actually able to not only be able to do it themselves, but to be able to share the knowledge of HOW to access the subconscious brain while in a conscious state.”

Well; for me its merely the re-production of the feeling associated with the adrenaline. Its basically reverse engineering.

As I child; i figured out how to do this when I was excited about my birthday coming up the following day. I had felt this strange feeling throughout my body and decided that I would reproduce it very shortly after it had happened. After that I simply kept on re-producing it and increasing the intensity.

In order to do what I do, you will have to wait to get excited naturally, since you’ve never consciously used that part of yourself before. While your excited or shortly after; try to reproduce the feeling and keep doing it. Do it enough, and your muscles will remember how to do it.

Once you’ve go that mastered; try increase the intensity of the feeling. Then try focusing it to different parts of your body.

As for controlling any other subconscious function of your body; I have never tried. Maybe that will get you started.

Comment by Kathy M on 26 September 2007:

Hi, I just received an email notification regarding a new post in this blog. It was by Adam F. You said that a paragraph from my comment had caught your attention.

(”I sure would be excited to find out if anyone is actually able to not only be able to do it themselves, but to be able to share the knowledge of HOW to access the subconscious brain while in a conscious state.”)

Anyway, I wanted to thank you for your explaination of how you seem to have learned (or taught yourself) how to consciously reproduce feelings that usually only occur as a reaction to something else, not at will.

BTW, I think I know exactly the feeling you mentioned. I usually describe it similarly: as the way you feel as a little kid on Christmas Eve, can’t sleep, just can’t wait for Christmas morning to arrive. And after reading your post, I realized that throughout my life, I seem to have found myself trying to describe that feeling to various people quite a few times. Although I can’t remember now exactly why.

I understand (in theory) how you say you go about re-producing it, but in practice…. well, I guess it must take a lot of practice. But any input like that which you had, I always find very encouraging that the conscious mind really CAN access the subconscious (subconscious? or some other part of the brain - I’m not too sure now).

Anyway, thank you Adam for your comment. It’s one thing for someone to say that “it can be done”, but quite another for someone to say, I’ve done it”.

Thanks again!

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Comment by Peter on 28 January 2008:

Hey Guys…

I came across this page in a google search because I was looking for some answers on adrenaline. What is described here is something I’ve been using to my advantage for years now. I’m a 19 year old collegiate track athlete, and years ago I found that I had this strange, seemingly useless talent. I wish I could tell you how I do it, but as described by others, with a little brainpower, my body “tingles” all over, my skin’s pores open up and I begin to sweat, and my mind enters a brief, strangely intense euphoric state. After years of playing around with this, I have trained myself to use it pretty much whenever I want, and I can even control the intesity. It used to only work when I was in a meditative state, usually laying down, and my muscles would twitch lightly. Now, not only can I do it as I please, I can actually control it to the point of sending myself strong, intense bursts of “adrenaline” or “hormones” or whatever it is at presice times in my event. I’m a pole vaulter, an event which demands power, speed, and ajility. By conroling my adrenaline, I can propel myself higher than I would without this talent.

The only negative effects I’ve experienced when doing this is a slight “crash” shortly thereafter. In the heat of competition, adrenaline is always up. For me, using these extra intense bursts of adrenaline, the crash can be dramatic. When I use this not in a physically intense activity, I get very jittery, my muscles flex, and I have an almost-overwhelming urge to pick a fight with the next guy I see (which is strange for someone like me, who has never gotten into a physical fight in his life). I think this goes back to what was being said that it’s the “fight or flight” response that adrenaline has on the human body. The “fight” response is probably heightened because I’m a male.

I guess what I’m trying to say in all this is that yes, it is very possible to control hormones.

How, you ask?
Well, there’s the golden question. If I knew the answer to that I would have written a book and made millions by now. Unfortunatly, it’s something that I can’t teach, and I have a feeling that something like this can’t be learned. I didn’t learn it, it just did it.

Does anyone else experience the kind of control I do? I’m very curious and looking for answers.

Thanks

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 28 January 2008:

Hi Peter

This is a fascinating story and I am glad to hear about someone who can actually control this release of adrenalin, it really does fascinate me.

Hopefully someone else might have the answers you seek.

Thanks for dropping by and leaving your comments.

Comment by urbo on 18 February 2008:

I can get this wave of energy and i can do physical stuff a lot easier pushups, i can squeez with with my hands a lot more,…
So i googled it and found the same symptoms i get as when adrenalin is released in to your body heart rate increases, pupil dialation, burst of energy,… and the release of adrenalin means that it takes ”energy” from other non critical systems from your body usualy from your digestion system and givs it to the heart, muscles, brain. I tried to use it like for 5 minutes straight my muscles started to shake and twich especialy legs and arms suddenly my stomache started to hurt, so I stoped.
There is something about hormon controling that is true.
It seems that I can release adrnealin with just a thought, as everyone elese and as evry one elese that posted here I don’t know how i just think of it.

just my part

Comment by Cathy C. on 6 May 2008:

Hello All,
Fantastic article! I’ve noted that the three posters stating they can control adrenaline are males. Perhaps as males they need or require adrenaline control to help them compete (as they all have admitted). The only female poster says she likes the ‘feeling’ of excitement and anticipation.
I have spent a lifetime trying to shutoff the fight or flight response. I was raised in a difficult home, and needed to be ready to protect myself at any given moment. Learning to turn off the anxiety and vigilant thoughts has been a hard process. I now take an antidepressant.
Chronic exposure to cortisol, the stress hormone, wreaks havoc on the body. Bone calcium loss, depression, body aches, and diabetes can result.
Biofeedback is well known now as a useful tool in stress control.
Perhaps in the near future we can find out how to teach ourselves to control other hormone pathways using similar methods.I have the ability to control pain, such as headaches, thru a a technique I developed. I take a deep breath thru my nose, mentally gather the pain with the ‘breath’ and then blow the pain out and down thru my feet. After 2 or 3 breaths the pain is gone or diminished greatly.
Thanks for posting this article.

Comment by Gladys on 20 May 2008:

Hi, just wanted to pipe up as a female who can control adrenaline! As the others said, I just focus on the feeling I know adrenaline brings with it, and then it actually happens. I haven’t ever used it for any kind of practical purpose like the men here did, though. I think I learned it partly because I learned to surpress my adrenaline when I was younger. I used to be very violent, and at one point I decided that that was no longer the kind of person I want to be, so I learned to lower my general level of arousal.

I can also create the physical sensations of being in love (tingly feeling in my body, constricted chest, but all in a very nice way) in the same way (that would be the hormone fenilalanine), and I can bring myself to orgams by just thinking about the physical sensations (sorry if that was too much information!)

I’m sorry, I can’t really help with the practical application. I think you mostly need good visualisations skills, something that I’ve been practicing for over six years now.

Comment by Jeremy on 25 July 2008:

Well, it’s nice to know that other people agree with what I myself believe. It’s pretty clear there are mysteries of the body we don’t yet know about, most of which are probably unobservable through microscopes or the so-calld “advanced” technology we have now (we all know technology evolves indefinitely, so any huge medical breakthroughs we’ve made recently will probably be considered inaccurate or primitive 1-2 hundred years from now). I like to combine my knowledge of things that I believe with scientific observations made by the experts.

Personally, I think our brain is connected to every part of our body, and we can control each part of our body (including organs) through thought. A man I know can actually slow his heart rate down dramatically, even when he’s just sitting still, to as slow as he wants by concentrating and “willing” his heart rate to slow down. Apparently he went for a check-up with a doctor, who witnessed him doing this, and the doctor was shocked by it; my friend was warned against doing it again.

I also believe we can control almost every aspect of our body, from muscle growth to bone growth, just through intense concentration of thought, but that it can be dangerous for someone who doesn’t know how to control their thoughts. I’ve read up on a lot of Buddhist practices and other spiritual practices, and a lot of what they do sounds a lot like what I believe.

Anyways, this kind of stuff is definitely interesting. I wish more resources were devoted to studying the brain’’s control over the entire body and its connection to cells, rather than just the functions of the cells themselves.