The biology of belief (part 1 of 3)

Written by Stuart Haden on January 15, 2020

I was reading a book by Bruce Lipton (The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology) and he picked up on one of my biggest interests – perception. Then he gave me the explanation of a lifetime. Signal + protein = behaviour. Without reaching for the textbooks here’s the ‘biology of belief…’

The signal could be a trauma or a toxin, but it’s everything we perceive in the environment around us. It’s our switch. How we respond to our environment influences the rest of the equation.

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We don’t have to get overly scientific to describe protein. A quick understanding of genetics will suffice. Genetic mutations only account for 5% of disease. Everything else loops right back to the signal.

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At the end of the equation lies our behaviour. The signal is at the core of this as we (now) know that genetics can only offer 5% at best. Dis-ease (whether biological or otherwise) therefore, is all down to how you perceive the environment and subsequent signals. Distorted signals = dis-ease. So perception is reality after all. Here’s a quick video (part 1 of 3) of how I apply this in coaching conversations.