Can You Gain Conscious Control Over Gene Expression

[Raptorsin7]

Every part of our being is controlled by genetic processes that are occurring unconsciously so is it possible to become so conscious that you can change your own gene expression. I wonder if you could become so conscious you can produce specific hormones at will.

Perhaps our own being is beyond the individual body so maybe you could expand outside of the human form and retain conscious awareness.

[Tim R]

More or less. There is something called "Epigenetics", which means that our genes are influenced (either turned on or off) depending on the demands of our lives. 

For example (and this is a real example and happened like this with many of the parents and children of WWI and WWII)

When someone who lived during war time suffered from starvation and famine, there is a high chance that if their children grow up and live during peaceful and opulent times, they (the children) will develop obesity. Because the genes of for example the father who starved in war had to regulate his metabolism to be on low flame and process energy intake as effective as possible, with as little as possible of the food intake going to waste. His child however doesn't suffer from starvation anymore and has more than enough food, but he still has the epigenetic configuration of his father who suffered from famine, and so his body will think "well, we're still in war and there's nothing to eat around here, let's save everything we can" and so he becomes obese. 

It doesn't have very much to do with how conscious you are. Your body will simply adapt to the demands placed upon it. 

[BipolarGrowth]

At this point, I highly doubt anyone can do this to the specific degree you describe. It’s more likely medical science will get there first. 

[Nahm]

1 hour ago, Raptorsin7 said:

Every part of our being is controlled by genetic processes that are occurring unconsciously

Thought attachment is a tricky, tricky situation. How is this known while simultaneously said to be occurring unconsciously? You are literally saying there is no consciousness of this at all, and yet it is controlling every part of our being, which is, consciousness. 

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so is it possible to become so conscious that you can change your own gene expression.

Similarly, how can consciousness ‘become so conscious’? 

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I wonder if you could become so conscious you can produce specific hormones at will.

Wouldn’t it first need to actually be known that a you can become conscious / more conscious? 

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Perhaps our own being is beyond the individual body so maybe you could expand outside of the human form and retain conscious awareness.

Isn’t ‘our own being’, by definition, already therefore by default not the apparent limitation of individual bodies? Isn’t human form already a thought, in accordance with direct experience? 

As a consession, yes this is not only possible it is like creating your own reality - it is simply activity and expression, without thought attachment to the contrary, and is already the actuality. 

Control is realized in the relinquishing of the conditioning, or belief, in control. Relinquishing thought attachment, conditioning, and the believing of self referential thought is not ‘woo woo’, or “spiritual concepts”. Everything else is.  Adding self conceptualization is adding more conditioning, more suffering. It’s ALL aversion. 

[Federico del pueblo]

2 hours ago, Raptorsin7 said:

Every part of our being is controlled by genetic processes that are occurring unconsciously so is it possible to become so conscious that you can change your own gene expression. I wonder if you could become so conscious you can produce specific hormones at will.

Perhaps our own being is beyond the individual body so maybe you could expand outside of the human form and retain conscious awareness.

This is more or less what epigenetics is all about. It's still a fairly new science, but the premise is that your environment (your outer and inner environment) impacts your gene activation. E.g. things like toxins, stress and trauma can lead to certain specific genetic changes that will impact your health.

I don't think you can go so far as to generate a specific level of a hormone, but maybe you could.

There are some authors/teachers who discuss this in their books (and also on YouTube) and have come up with their own meditation techniques to affect epigenetic processes in the body, to help people heal from chronic illnesses. In their teachings they sort of mix this stuff together with spiritual teachings about consciousness, god, the quantum field etc. So it's not really scientific as a whole, but they do conduct science themselves at their workshops that demonstrates the effects of their techniques.

You could check out:

Dr. Joe Dispenza (You are the placebo)

Bruce Lipton (the biology of belief)

Dawson Church (The genie in your genes)