WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ... ABOUT YOU!
You might want to know that your DNA determines your physical characteristics, such as the shape of your ears, and even whether you can roll your tongue. But in 1994, it was discovered that our Genemetric DNA, also determines a substantial part of our mental characteristics, personality, tendencies, and traits.
During the 1980’s, there was a focus on mapping genes to predict diseases. In 1994, DeCode Genetics, in Iceland, a global leader in human genetics, was founded by Kari Steffansson. By the year 2000, around 1,000 of the estimated 7,000 gene diseases, such as Huntington’s and cystic fibrosis, had been mapped. A gene is a short section of DNA, which carries all your genetic instructions.
As modern life became increasingly stressful, the focus also turned to mental disorders, which have their genesis in the complex interplay of our DNA, as well as the way our unique, individual nature, interprets our diverse social and environmental factors. Studies have provided evidence of DNA contributions to Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Autism and other mental disorders. Specific DNA may raise the risk of developing a particular mental health disorder, or a change in your personality characteristics, particularly when other environmental factors are present that may contribute to the issue.
Geneticists believe that more than 40% of all people experiencing some sort of depression, may be able attribute it to their DNA factors. However, it is important to note that your unique Genemetric contributes to your mental health in many ways, such as the way you perceive and manage stress, why you have chosen your current lifestyle, the diet you have chosen, which often reflects your level of self-respect, and social factors, such as the quality you accept of all your social networks.
Geneticists have identified DNA links between the psychological globally recognised, “Big Five,” personality traits. Namely, Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and extremely importantly, your Openness to new experiences, which all contribute to the development of character, personality, tendencies, and traits.
It was recently discovered in 2013, that your DNA is not only embedded in the inner nucleus of each cell, but can also be found in the soft, outer membrane, of your body’s cells. This makes your cells extremely sensitive to your body’s environment. For instance, when you argue with someone, it has a negative impact on those who hear it, for example, your children, parents, or your close friends.
STOP NEGATIVE IMPRINTING
Imagine that there is a violent storm blowing. You sit inside your house, protected from the worst of it. Now imagine the effect of that storm on you if you had to stand on the outside of your house. Your DNA on the outside membrane, like the outside of your house, hears the storm, of a ferocious argument, and negatively imprints it in your cells. We refer to this as a 'state of challenge', and you are imprinting that state on your DNA every time you argue. Conversely, when you are laughing, and enjoying yourself, that happier state is imprinted on the sensitive DNA in the outer membrane of your cells.
This latest research has revealed that you are neither blessed, nor cursed, with your natal Genemetric personality and traits, as you are able to change the impact of all your behaviours, and therefore your interactions onto the DNA in the sensitive membrane. So, it is about developing your self-awareness, and being aware of what you are imprinting daily upon your DNA. How you are, impacts on who you are.
You may confuse your ‘self-awareness’, with your personal sense of yourself, and therefore, you might take for granted, that you already know yourself. But this sense of yourself is but one dimension of self- awareness. It’s like knowing all the facets of one brightly lit room in your house, whilst all the others remain in darkness.
You might measure your self-awareness by what the average person in your social environment knows of themselves, but this does not reveal your real personality, which is for the most part, hidden from you. Any self development can only follow self-awareness, and the ability to put that awareness into daily action.
Other DNA correlations showed a link between Extraversion, Hyperactivity, Openness, Schizophrenia, Neuroticism, Depression and Anxiety. In other words, the same parts of your DNA that help define your personality, could also affect you possibly developing certain mental health issues. That's not to say the Genemetric DNA that you were born with, will fully define your personality, and make any mental issues inevitable, but they do have an influence, and could be closely linked. On a brighter note, the research found no DNA overlap, between mental issues and personalities that were Co-operative, Compassionate, Conscientious, Responsible and Self-disciplined.
A lesson for all of us to learn.
THE GENETICS PERSONALITY CONSORTIUM
Chi Hua Chen, the lead researcher from the University of California, San Diego, stated that, “While it has already been well established that your personality is linked to your DNA, recent DNA studies have allowed researchers to take a closer look at which parts of our DNA affect certain aspects of our character and personality.” Chen, and his team, analysed DNA data, from 140,000 DNA samples, provided by the Genetics Personality Consortium, to look for correlations between specific DNA features, personality traits, and any mental disorders. The researchers did find links between certain DNA and certain personality traits. For instance, the genes WSCD2 and PCDH15, are connected to Extraversion, while the gene L3MBTL2, is tied to Neuroticism.
They also found that DNA related to Neuroticism, and Openness to new experiences, were clustered together in the same regions as genes linked to certain psychiatric disorders. Other genetic correlations showed connections between Extraverted behaviour and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, between levels of Openness behaviour and Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, and between Neurotic behaviour and Depression and Anxiety. In other words, the same parts of your Genemetric DNA that help define your daily behaviours, could also affect your likelihood of developing mental health problems.
THE REALLY GEEKY PROOF
Personality is influenced by genetic factors and associated with mental health. However, the underlying genetic determinants are largely unknown. Six genetic loci, were identified, significantly associated with personality traits. Extraversion was associated with variants in WSCD2, and Neuroticism with variants on chromosome in L3MBTL2. A principal component analysis was also conducted to extract major dimensions underlying genetic variations among the five personality domains and six psychiatric disorders.
So, if you are depressed, or jealous, or lonely, the work for you here, is to understand your Genemetrics, improve your mental condition, intensify your self-awareness, and increase your self development, to help you move out of your 'states of challenge', to your 'states of potential', and start imprinting the lighter 'states of essence' into your daily behaviours in your Genemetric DNA.
You have an ideal way of being, that your personality must always reflect, if you are to ever find happiness and inner peace, which is the real objective here, by aligning your outer personality, with your core inner essence. After all, the two most important days in your life, are the day you were born, and the day you discover who you really are.
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YOUR NATAL GENEMETRIC PERSONALITY ... why you are, who you really are.
A natal Genemetric is the study of your detailed metric pattern that forms your genetic personality, traits and tendencies, which is embedded in your genes at birth. It provides a detailed analysis of your behaviours that are either in conjunction, conflict, opposition or harmony with each other.
Separated twins prove that their personalities embedded in their genes at birth, remains the same in different environments, because they both react to different environments in the same way. However, if a family of five children received their personality from their parents, they would all possess the same genes, experience the same environments, and have the same personality. But they do not, because their natal Genemetrics, and therefore their personalities, are all different.
Dr Nancy Segal, Psychology Professor at California State University, says in the video:
"We found many more behaviours than we ever would have thought, do have a genetic component to them. They control how you are pre-disposed to behave in a particular environment. Identical twins share their genes, but not their environments, yet still have the same personality embedded in their genes. We found some amazing similarities, and even some unusual habits, such as a pair of twins scattering love letters around the house, and both bit their bails down to the nub.
Are these identical behaviours due to just random chance? No they are not, because it is about the way their genes interact with their environment. Your genes will probably make you behave in a certain way, but we are not set in stone. We can change and make our behavioural expressions different."