Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

by Joe Dispenza

Short-term genetic traits from our parents and from their parents, going back a few generations, give us our individuality. Both kinds of genetic traits, long-term and short-term, become hardwired in the brain as it develops before birth and especially during the first year of life. When we speak of certain definitive areas in the brain that are hardwired, we are referring to fixed, inherited patterns of nerve connections that give us our very personality, facial expressions, coordinated motor skills, intellect, emotional propensities, reflexes, levels of anxiety, internal chemical balance, mannerisms, even creativity and artistic expression. Both long-term and short-term genetic traits are what nature has given us as an inheritance. We can say it is “our nature.”