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Dawson Church, PhD
Monday, June 20, 2016
Are you ready to access the best holistic practices for optimal health, stress reduction and increased happiness that are easy to apply and don’t rely on expensive
medical interventions?
See past all of the hype and discover simple, proven methods that unlock the potential of your genes for true emotional, energetic and biological health.
Dawson Church, PhD is your perfect guide into the frontiers of emerging science. He’ll show you how to take control of your biology and create the healthy and vibrant life you desire by “turning on” the positive potential of your genes.
Too often, when we feel we are the victim of our biology (as much of modern science has taught us), we subconsciously create more stress, a sense of helplessness, and other negative emotions that cause biochemical cycles of disease.
Instead, Dawson will take you to exciting new frontiers of health and healing — energy psychology and the emerging study of epigenetics — so you can discover how to literally program more health and vitality into your entire being.
In Your Happiness Genes: Harnessing the Power of Energy Psychology & Epigenetics for Your Health & Wellbeing course, Dawson will reveal the HOWs and WHYs of cutting-edge health treatments that work through the body’s energetic, biochemical and genetic pathways.
More importantly, he’ll empower you with simple practices you can use throughout your day to curb stress, upset and fear, clear emotional trauma and bring balance and peace of mind.
You’ll discover the secrets of being an “epigenetic engineer” — someone who influences their gene expression to create a healthy, low-stress, quality life.
If Emotional Freedom Technique (or “tapping’), neuroscience and meditation fascinate you, Dawson’s insights will serve as a guide for you to select and marry the best of western medical research with these holistic treatments.
Too often, alternative health practices are shrouded in hype and pseudo-science. Mainstream scientists, meanwhile can be so cautious that they dismiss alternative methods that demonstrate real results.
Dawson will help you navigate these complex areas with real wisdom, proven science and a compassionate, step-by-step program for improving your health and wellbeing — setting the stage for a longer, happier life.
If you’re curious AND committed to real intellectual and scientific rigor, you’ll appreciate Dawson’s expertise and comprehensive teaching style.
He’ll guide you to work with your energy, emotions and bodily systems — with fewer visits to the doctor’s office — resulting in a much happier, healthier life.
How Does Epigenetics Apply to You?
In a nutshell, epigenetics shows that your genetic expression is not permanently fixed at birth but actually evolves as you grow and learn.
Through healthy habits and transformational practices as simple as tapping, you can “turn on” disease-preventing genes and biochemical pathways that lead to well-being. You can also “turn-off” disease-causing genes, through tapping, meditation,yoga and other simple practices.
This means that you can re-shape the way your genes express and literally reprogram your cellular pathways — which can dramatically improve your health and your body’s response to disease and increase your happiness.
While this science is in its infancy, it has remarkable and practical implications for living your full potential.
Epigenetic research shows that you’re not genetically “doomed” by the hand you’re dealt. Instead, you have the power to influence your health with practices that alter genetic expression.
Stress, which has proven to shorten lives by 9 to 14 years, is THE key factor in your health and happiness. When you learn to reduce or manage stress better, you turn off genes that cause your body to age more quickly or become more prone to disease — and turn on your happiness genes.
Dawson will separate facts from fiction and show you how epigenetics connects to transformational practices such as mindfulness meditation and tapping.
It’s all about shifting from being the “victim” of your genes, by learning the techniques that empower you to influence them.
If you’re fascinated by the interface of science, spirituality, health and conscious evolution — this will be a mind-expanding adventure at the leading edge of what we know.
With this program, you’ll:
- Learn to lower your stress and cortisol levels with simple relaxation and energy psychology practices during your day — which then dramatically affects other measures of health
- Discover shifts that affect reproductive hormones and neurotransmitters — addressing issues on both the psycho-spiritual and bio-medical levels
- Learn how to turn off stress signals and increase signals for relaxation that, in turn, affect your genetic expression
- Apply epigenetic knowledge in practical ways, allowing you to flip your own genetic switches
- Develop daily practices for longevity — building on research that shows alleviating stress can lengthen your life by 9 to 14 years
- Discern which methods — meditation, EFT tapping, neurofeedback — work best, and why
- Personalize your own health program by identifying the most effective techniques for your body
- Activate the “Epigenetic Health Spiral” to uplevel your health and happiness — at any age
- Experience wholeness by releasing old emotions, trauma and stories from your system
And that’s not all...
Each week of the training, you’ll receive a special body-mind practice that relieves stress and triggers positive gene expression, leading to better health and more happiness.
So, if you’re ready to explore the secrets of your body’s untapped potential, and savor the benefits that can come from taking control of your well-being — instead of having your health (and genes) control you — this is the training for you.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
Course sessions are on Mondays at 5:00pm Pacific.
In this 7-week program, Dawson will guide you through the fundamental transformational practices to successfully unlock pathways to a more vibrant life.
Each weekly LIVE contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the next — so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to liberate the “genie” in YOUR genes.
Module 1: Your DNA Is Not Your Destiny
(June 20)
The most important guiding story in the field of human biology for the past half-century has been that of the genome. The theory of genetic determinism teaches that “it’s all in your genes.”
Yet, recent breakthroughs have shown that only a small part of the genome is fixed — while more than 80% is affected by environmental influences, such as emotions, beliefs and transcendent experiences. This inspiring new story demonstrates that you can shift the patterns of gene expression consciously, and create more health and happiness.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The ways genes express themselves — and turn on and off
- How genes build proteins, and what that means for programming better health into your cells
- How your thoughts, feelings and beliefs affect your genes
- Exercises that allow you to take control of your gene expression to improve your health and wellbeing
- 2 experiential practices for lowering stress that will produce immediate shifts in your nervous system function and gene expression
Module 2: Your Designer Brain (June 27)
Your brain holds important keys to health, vitality and quality of life. For examples, neural bundles increase in size and connectivity when they’re used often, which improves memory and your cognitive abilities. Brain regions correlate with patterns of gene expression, such as those that regulate the stress response.
Very frequent neural signaling produces astonishingly quick growth in the synapses that connect neurons. In time, this produces greater volume in certain regions of the brain — such as the prefrontal cortex — enhancing your brain performance. By contrast, stress causes brain regions like the hippocampus to decrease in size over time, while increasing the signaling capacity of the circuits that carry stress signals.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The regions of your brain, and how they communicate, grow and shrink
- The parts of the brain responsible for cognition and for stress
- Simple practices to increase or decrease your brain’s signaling capacity
- EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), also known as “tapping,” which science has proven reduces stress
Module 3: Your Happy Genes (July 11)
Could there really be a gene for happiness? Does being happy produce changes in your genome?
Not very long ago, scientists would have found these questions absurd. Today, they’re at the forefront of research and we’re finding a dynamic interchange between our moods, including how happy or unhappy we are, and genetic states.
In particular, inflammation genes associated with disease, and immunity genes associated with vibrant health, are now known to be entwined in an intricate dance that triggers with our emotions.
In this module you’ll learn:
- Why a hair-trigger stress response helped our ancestors survive, but...
- Why this response is now killing off our brain cells, and our happiness
- How lowering your stress changes the expression of hundreds of genes
- Research that shows that happiness can add 10-15 years to your
- The gene “regulating” powers of joy and laughter
Module 4: Energy in Healing (July 25)
Your body has an electromagnetic field — as do your organs and cells. In fact, within a year of the discovery of electricity, physicians were already experimenting with its use for healing — research that is now resurging.
Because your genes interact with electrical and other energy fields, disease can often be detected within them long before it appears in molecular form. In this module, we will explore energy medicine and energy psychology, focusing on the areas of research most applicable to shifting your physical and psychological states.
In this module, you’ll learn:
- The ways that health and disease can be detected in the electromagnetic field
- Practices to induce rapid healing in your body
- A daily 5-minute exercise to regulate your energy — and give you steadier focus, more vitality and more positive emotions
Module 5: Practices That Shift Gene Expression (August 1)
A growing body of research into practices like mindfulness meditation, EFT tapping and neurofeedback demonstrates that these techniques can have profound effects on health, especially through feedback loops that affect genetic expression and hormonal cycles. We’ll also explore the five primary brain waves that can be measured, and patterns observed as objective guides to stress and relaxation.
In this module, you’ll learn:
- How to incorporate different practices that will promote inner peace and shift your gene expression
- How the “Epigenetic Health Cycle” produces resilience, enabling you to thrive in situations where you’ve been emotionally or physically challenged
- The nature of stress-dampening genes that make you feel good
- Characteristics of theta, delta, alpha, beta and gamma brain wave states — and how to entrain your brain into the most beneficial states.
- A simple EcoMeditation technique, based on physical postures that automatically induce an altered state of deep relaxation and connection.
Module 6: Memory Consolidation & Extinction (August 8)
Traumatic memories make a lasting impression on the brain because that had real survival value for our ancestors. However, this means that most people’s brains have been overly shaped by negative early childhood memories, with parts of us still “stuck” in those traumatic memories. Such memories have been linked to the turning on of genes associated with disease and mental illness. While it was once thought to be impossible to erase these traumatic memories, new research shows these memories can be modified and replaced with new positive memories.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How you can extinguish a traumatic memory
- Reasons your brain is “Velcro” for negative experiences and “Teflon” for positive ones
- How early childhood trauma becomes deeply embedded in theta and delta brain waves
- The role of extinction and “reconsolidation” in the formation of memory
- Practices that transform traumatic childhood events into positive memories
Module 7: Evoking Transcendence: Spiritual Practices to Maximize
Your Potential (August 15)
For its entire history, the field of psychology has focused on mental health problems and how to restore people to “normalcy.” But what lies above that “normal” plateau? This is the realm of transcendent experience. This week, we’ll explore mystical states where you go beyond religion to experience the transcendent reality that underlies all spiritual traditions.
In this exciting final module, you’ll discover:
- How to evoke transcendent experiences that you can use daily
- The genetic and neurological characteristics of transcendent experience
- How to induce mystical states using physiological cues
- Guidance for integrating the practices you’ve learned over the 7 weeks into your lifestyle
- An advanced form of EcoMeditation that sparks guidance from your deep subconscious
The Your Happiness Genes Bonus Collection
In addition to Dawson’s transformative 7-week virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions with leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course — and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Relationship as a Spiritual Journey
Audio Interview by Dawson with Donna Eden and David Feinstein, PhD
In this intimate conversation with Dawson, Donna Eden and David Feinstein reveal guidance for how to experience relationship as a spiritual journey. Both psychological and energetic skills are needed to navigate your relationships. Learn how to de-escalate an argument before you reach the point of no return. Donna and David share their expertise with boundaries — how to know the difference between your feelings and your partner’s feelings. In addition, they demonstrate how gratitude keeps the relationship fresh.
Donna Eden, a pioneer in the field of holistic healing, is among the world’s most sought, most joyous and most authoritative spokespersons for Energy Medicine. She has been able to clairvoyantly "see" the body’s energies since childhood and her abilities as a healer are legendary. Her classic book,Energy Medicine, is the textbook in hundreds of healing classes. Donna is widely referenced in the alternative health field and has been a consultant and guest speaker in numerous universities, hospitals and corporations. More than 1,100 practitioners are certified in her system and are, in any given month, teaching hundreds of classes and providing healing services to thousands of clients around the world.
David Feinstein, PhD is a clinical psychologist and a pioneer in developing innovative therapeutic approaches, leading to nine national awards for his books on consciousness and energy healing. He and his wife, Donna Eden, have built the world’s largest and most vibrant organization teaching Energy Medicine. Their latest book, The Energies of Love, achieved bestseller status on the NY Times Relationship List. David has served on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Antioch College. In addition to his nine books, he has contributed more than 100 articles to professional literature.
Light Upon Light: The Paths of the Greatest Spiritual Masters of All Time
Audio Dialogue with Dawson and Andrew Vidich
In this conversation, Andrew — one of the world’s foremost practitioners and authorities on mysticism — outlines to Dawson the lives of some of the great spiritual masters of the last millennium, from Rumi, to twentieth century saint Darshan Singh, and illuminates their inner quests. He explains their perceptions of the world, the innermost workings of their minds and the life incidents that led them to enlightenment. He shows how the mystical experience is common to all spiritual paths, and the methods we can all use to evoke transcendent states.
Andrew Vidich, PhD is an award-winning author, consultant and international speaker. His books include Love Is a Secret and Light Upon Light: 5 Master Paths to Awakening the Mindful Self. Andrew has been an adjunct assistant professor of religion at Manhattan College and Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. His latest book, Let There Be Light: Experiencing Light Across the World’s Sacred Traditions, is forthcoming. Andrew’s consulting firm, Leadership Training Programs, trains people in effective communication, mindfulness, conflict management and leadership development.
Wisdom of the Grandmothers
Audio Dialogue with Dawson and Lynn Andrews
Bestselling author Lynn Andrews gives Dawson an in-depth description of the shamans she writes about in her book: Coming Full Circle: Ancient Teachings for a Modern World. She shares the most profound teachings she has received from these 12 women of the Sisterhood of the Shield, members of an ancient shamanic society deeply embedded in native cultures and traditions all over the world. She shows how her teachers have led her to confront her deepest fears and accept without hesitation that there is a spiritual solution to every one of life’s problems.
Lynn Andrews is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of the Medicine Woman Series, which chronicles her three decades of study and work with shaman healers on four continents. Her study of the way of the sacred feminine began with Agnes Whistling Elk and Ruby Plenty Chiefs, Native American healers in northern Canada. Her quest for spiritual discovery continued with a Shaman Curendera of the Mayan Yucatan; an Aboriginal woman of high degree in the Australian Outback or Nepalese healer in the foothills of the Himalayas. Today, she is recognized worldwide as a leader in the fields of spiritual healing and personal empowerment. A shaman healer and mystic, Ms. Andrews is widely acknowledged as a major link between the ancient world of shamanism and modern societies thirst for profound personal healing and a deeper understanding of the pathway to enlightenment.
Your DNA is Not Your Destiny
Video from Transformational Leadership Council
Genetic determinism was one of the dominant scientific paradigms of the twentieth century: "It’s all in your genes." Now the new science of epigenetics has shown just the opposite: that over 80% of the genome is affected by external environmental events. These include intangible influences such as your emotions, beliefs and spiritual experiences. In this inspiring video, recorded at the prestigious Transformational Leadership Council, Dawson describes this research, and how it is providing our society with quick remedies for both physical and psychological symptoms. He shows how even serious mental health issues like PTSD can be treated quickly and effectively, and ends with an inspiring vision of how the world is changing as we bring transcendent experiences into everyday life.
What People Are Saying About
Dawson Church...
“This course has not only helped me to release childhood grief and trauma, it has also helped me to begin to wake up and feel alive again after the death of my husband. I am beyond grateful, and I am very much looking forward to continuing to grow and expand my consciousness using the techniques and other information I learned from Dawson Church. He is a remarkable individual, and I now see him as a great mentor to me. I am looking forward to taking further courses with him, and I highly recommend his courses and books to anyone who wants to reduce stress, become healthier, and connect with higher consciousness. Participating in this course was a complete joy!”
— Anonymous
“I’ve been doing transformational work for quite a while and doing the Tapping, the EcoMeditation and the 5 minute Energy Exercise has contributed towards a letting go of certain anxieties. So, I’ve seen a significant change in my life style towards being more at ease with myself and others. Family members have observed those positive changes. Thank you so much!”
— Alejandro, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
“I am so grateful to you, Dawson! You are a gifted and incredibly knowledgeable presenter and coa“An engrossing presentation. Dawson strikes a nice balance between research, experiential and scientific background.”
— Tom Steffans, LPC
“Learning and practicing simple techniques to quell stress was very valuable. And listening to Dawson Church’s gigantic whole-body laugh was my favorite de-stressor! Loved his whole course.”
— Karen Smith, Framingham, MA
“I found the description of how our brain works and how our subconscious controls our behavior helpful. I understand how EFT can help resolve and change my programmed responses.”
— Terry Mullens, Lancaster, CA
“[This course was] very empowering for personal lifelong health. [I gained the] insight that I hold the key to my own health.”
— Zainab, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
“The benefit was that I put into practice the homework daily. I will listen to the deeper aspects of the course and know that I will get so many more insights.”
— Anne, Beaumont, Alberta, Canada
“The information is helpful for life. I learned all new techniques I had never heard about before.”
— Jeanine Patterson, RIo Rancho, NM
“This course is much needed in our day and times. Dawson does an excellent job!”
— Terri, Jackson, MS
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions with Dawson Church
Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored and learn with Dawson Church, a leading pioneer in synthesizing energy psychology and epigenetics with frontier health and wellbeing practices — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session helps you create the specific skills and abilities to take control of your body’s full potential. Course sessions are on Mondays at 5:00pm Pacific.
Seven Audio Recordings of
Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available to you to download in high quality MP3 format. This way, you’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere — on your iPod, in your car and at your convenience.
Seven PDF Transcripts of
Class Sessions
In addition to the high quality MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. This way you can review, print and highlight the most important insights and practices that you’ll learn.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class where you will be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Online Community group allows you to connect with each other to find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
After each lesson, you will then have the option to do related exercises and answer questions in order to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can ask additional questions, interact with your fellow students and get access to additional resources to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The Your Happiness Genes Bonus Collection
- Relationship as a Spiritual Journey
Audio Interview by Dawson with Donna Eden and David Feinstein, PhD
- Light Upon Light: The Paths of the Greatest Spiritual Masters of All Time
Audio Dialogue with Dawson and Andrew Vidich
- Wisdom of the Grandmothers
Audio Dialogue with Dawson and Lynn Andrews
- Your DNA is Not Your Destiny
Video from Transformational Leadership Council
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Your Happiness Genes Virtual Program
We feel honored that Dawson Church has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive, LIVE online training. This is a special opportunity to interact directly from someone who has the brilliance of a scientist, the heart of a healer and the creative curiosity of an explorer. Dawson’s powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us take control of our own biology to shape the healthy and vibrant life we desire.
Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars). But you’ll be able to benefit from Dawson’s teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — at your own pace!
If you’re fascinated by the interface of science, spirituality, health and conscious evolution — then it’s a powerful gift to yourself, your loved ones — and our world — to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
More Praise For Dawson Church...
“Dawson Church has made an eminently valuable contribution to the field, with lots of exciting and well-written information. He really makes a scientific case that we are first and foremost energy beings.”
— Fred Gallo, PhD, Author of Energy Psychology
“Dawson’s logic and scientific command are relentless. I cannot explain, for example, the 1000 year ancient "science" of acupuncture and the stimulation of healing energies. But I have seen its physical manifestations. Now Dawson Church has found a way to explain and quantify this experience... Bravo!”
— Pierce Scranton, Author, Death on the Learning Curve
“A phenomenal man with a phenomenal mind. A brilliant guest on my show, who got my listeners cranked up big time!”
— “Hurricane” Annie , The Annie Armen Show
“Dawson is an amazing facilitator. He’s caring, kind and totally walks his talk. I’m thrilled and grateful to have had this opportunity to learn and grow with him. My understanding of EFT increased immensely after his masterful workshop presentation.”
— Ruth Lanham-Taylor, PhD
“Dawson is a wonderful presenter who made the material exciting, understandable and applicable to clinical practice. I am excited to take further training, and deepen my skills.”
— Prasad Gupta, MPH
About Dawson Church, PhD...
Dawson Church has edited or authored many books in the fields of health, psychology and spirituality. He has collaborated on articles with many of the leading voices of our time, including Larry Dossey, Bernie Siegel, Caroline Myss, Barry Sears and John Gray. He earned his doctorate in Integrative Healthcare at Holos University, under the mentorship of distinguished neurosurgeon Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, founder of the American Holistic Medical Association. He went on to receive a postgraduate PhD in Natural Medicine. Church and Shealy coauthored a compendious survey of spiritual healing throughout history called “Soul Medicine.”
Church founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare (NIIH.org), a nonprofit dedicated to education and research into science-based medical interventions which use consciousness and energy as primary modalities. He is the author of several studies published in peer-reviewed journals, and lectures at many medical and psychology conferences each year. He presents workshops on peak performance for athletes and organizations through EFT Power Training. He performed the first randomized blind trial of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for athletes, the first study of EFT’s effects on healthcare workers, and a large nationwide study of PTSD in war veterans as part of the Veterans Stress Project.
Church’s research summarizes the biomedical evidence for consciousness-based treatments. The Genie in Your Genes outlines the latest studies on the effects of psycho-spiritual experiences on gene expression, and predicts that consciousness research will reach the front line of medicine in the coming decade. It has been hailed as a brilliant contribution by many reviewers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a phone line (or an equivalent voice service). If there is more than one person in your household taking the course, you will each need your own line. We use MaestroConference to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions, participate in groups and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Please note that dialing MaestroConference from your phone is a regular toll call to California; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. You can also use Skype credit/subscription or Google Voice to dial in to MaestroConference; and you’ll need to use your virtual keypad to enter your PIN and to indicate that you want to ask a question. Other options include calling cards and discount long-distance carriers; and we also have a webcast which is free to use from anywhere in the world.
I have never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon to participate. I haven’t seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.
– Claudia F., Medford, MA
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private community website.
Q: Can you tell me about the Private Course Group?
A: We will have a private community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, completing homework assignments and exchanging information about events and other activities that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects and growth throughout the Course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this Training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is July 11, 2016. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Your refund will be processed within five business days and we'll send you an email confirming your refund. However, we'd love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there is something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we'll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
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