Your genes respond to your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. In 2007, this was a bold prediction. Today, it is confirmed by thousands of peer-reviewed studies — and this fully revised 4th edition brings every chapter up to date with what science now knows.
The Genie in Your Genes
The Genie in Your Genes
Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention
Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention
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Multiple award winner
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100,000+ copies sold
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Completely revised
What You Will Discover
What You Will Discover
The science of healing from the inside out
- How your emotional states produce immediate, measurable changes in gene expression — and how to direct that process deliberately
- Why practices like meditation, EFT tapping, and heart coherence are potent epigenetic interventions with documented effects on inflammation, immunity, and cellular aging
- How quantum entanglement, nonlocal consciousness, and the body's electromagnetic field explain healing that conventional medicine cannot account for
- The neuroscience of happiness — which genes code for the biochemicals of joy, how trauma silences them, and how to reverse that silencing
- How the emotional choices you make today alter the epigenetic inheritance you pass to children and grandchildren who don't yet exist
- Practical tools for becoming an 'epigenetic engineer' of your own wellbeing — using what the research already shows work
Inside The Book
Inside The Book
12 Chapters Of Science, Story, And Practice
CHAPTER 1
Epigenetic healing
CHAPTER 2
You: the ultimate epigenetic engineer
CHAPTER 3
The flexible genome
CHAPTER 4
The body piezoelectric
CHAPTER 5
Your connective semiconducting crystal
CHAPTER 6
The flexible genome
CHAPTER 7
Quantum entanglement
CHAPTER 8
Scanning the future
CHAPTER 9
Energy psychology
CHAPTER 10
Your happy genes
CHAPTER 11
Epigenetics and the body politic
CHAPTER 12
Principles of epigenetic medicine
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The Science At A Glance
The Science At A Glance
What two decades of research now confirms
When the first edition appeared in 2007, not one peer-reviewed study confirmed that consciousness-based practices produced measurable genetic changes. Here is what the research now documents:
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A single EFT session
Reduces cortisol by 24–43%, significantly more than talk therapy or no treatment
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Ornish lifestyle study
501 genes changed in just three months of meditation, walking, diet, and group support
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Telomere research
Loving-kindness meditators have significantly longer telomeres than matched controls
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PTSD and gene expression
10 EFT sessions produced 53% symptom reduction and measurable noncoding RNA changes
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Placebo and belief
Sham surgery produces significant improvement in 74% of procedures examined — belief is biology
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Transgenerational inheritance
Holocaust survivors' methylation changes found in their daughters and granddaughters
About the Author
Dawson Church, PhD
Dawson Church, PhD
Researcher • Award-winning author • Founder, National Institute for Integrative Healthcare
Dawson Church is the author of Mind to Matter, Bliss Brain, and Spiritual Intelligence. His research teams have published numerous clinical trials showing that EFT and related practices regulate brain function and gene expression.
He is the founder of EFT Universe, one of the most-visited alternative medicine websites on the web, and developer of Clinical EFT — the first energy psychology method to achieve evidence-based status in peer-reviewed literature. He lives in Northern California.
He is the founder of EFT Universe, one of the most-visited alternative medicine websites on the web, and developer of Clinical EFT — the first energy psychology method to achieve evidence-based status in peer-reviewed literature. He lives in Northern California.
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The genie has always been inside you. This book shows you how to let it out.
The genie has always been inside you. This book shows you how to let it out.
20th Anniversary Edition • Completely revised • Hundreds of new studies
Trade paperback • ISBN 9781604153200 • Energy Psychology Press, 2026
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Stories of Miraculous Healing
Stories of Miraculous Healing
Read the stories of real-life people who used these insights and experienced extraordinary healing:
David Seidler, writer of the movie The King's Speech, whose bladder cancer disappeared after he visualized his tissues clean...
Lucy, 54, who 12 years after her fibromyalgia diagnosis, used EFT tapping, and was symptom-free in weeks...
Josephine Tesauro, 92, who drives herself to 4 bridge groups each week - while her identical twin has dementia and blindness...
George Thomas, whose metastatic malignant melanoma shrank away after he began volunteering...
Sarah, a 52-year-old teacher, who tapped away eight years of chronic lower back pain...
Linny Devons, whose mother in intensive care healed after Linny did a healing Reiki group 10,000 miles away...
Rebecca Marina, whose red blood cells completely transformed in 12 minutes...
Stamatis Moraitis, who "forgot to die" after 9 physicians gave him only 9 months to live...
David Seidler, writer of the movie The King's Speech, whose bladder cancer disappeared after he visualized his tissues clean...
Lucy, 54, who 12 years after her fibromyalgia diagnosis, used EFT tapping, and was symptom-free in weeks...
Josephine Tesauro, 92, who drives herself to 4 bridge groups each week - while her identical twin has dementia and blindness...
George Thomas, whose metastatic malignant melanoma shrank away after he began volunteering...
Sarah, a 52-year-old teacher, who tapped away eight years of chronic lower back pain...
Linny Devons, whose mother in intensive care healed after Linny did a healing Reiki group 10,000 miles away...
Rebecca Marina, whose red blood cells completely transformed in 12 minutes...
Stamatis Moraitis, who "forgot to die" after 9 physicians gave him only 9 months to live...
Transformative for practitioners and general readers alike
Transformative for practitioners and general readers alike
"Dawson Church has synthesized an extraordinary body of science into a compelling case for consciousness-based medicine. This is the book I recommend most to patients who want to understand why what they think and feel matters at the cellular level."
Physician reader
Physician reader
Integrative medicine practitioner
"I first read this book in 2009 and it changed how I understood my own healing. Coming back to the 4th edition, I'm struck by how completely the science has caught up with what Church was saying when almost nobody believed it."
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Amazon review
"Required reading for anyone who works with trauma. The epigenetics chapters alone justify the price — and the practical tools in the final section are immediately applicable in clinical settings."
Licensed psychotherapist
Licensed psychotherapist
EFT practitioner, 12 years
"The chapter on transgenerational epigenetics alone was worth the entire book. I finally had a framework for understanding patterns in my family that seemed to have no rational origin. Church explains the science without losing the human story."
General reader
General reader
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20th Anniversary Edition · Completely revised · Hundreds of new studies
The genie has always been inside you. This book shows you how to let it out.
The genie has always been inside you. This book shows you how to let it out.
Trade paperback • ISBN 9781604153200 • Energy Psychology Press, 2026
Ebook • ISBN 9781604153194 | Audiobook • ISBN 9781604153217
Ebook • ISBN 9781604153194 | Audiobook • ISBN 9781604153217
Renowned researcher Dawson Church, PhD discovered something remarkable: there are 4 specific techniques that can shift you from struggle to flow in just 5 minutes.
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