July/August 2006 Alternative Health
The DNA of Healing: Resetting Your Genetic Codes

by Susanne Sims

Margaret Ruby

Is it possible to re-write our genetic codes?

According to Margaret Ruby, author of The DNA of Healing: A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness and Abundance (Hampton Roads, 2006), we can re-engineer our DNA and re-program our personal blueprints to create an optimum healthy lifestyle.

While it is a well-known fact that our physical traits are handed down through our DNA, recent discoveries show that the emotions and experiences of our ancestors are also handed down through the DNA, meaning that along with the color of one’s eyes and the shape of one’s nose, each of us has inherited the emotional patterns and beliefs of our ancestors. Programmed into our very cells is the emotional history that has been handed down to us through our family lineage, with each deeply embedded pattern influencing the quality of our health, wealth and relationships.

As a pioneer and educator in the field of healing, Ruby has discovered that the way we react to others, communicate, think, and express emotions are all shaped by our genes. The source of our patterns can be traced back to the “stories” that surrounded the feelings and beliefs of our ancestors. If we do not deactivate them, these stories that we have inherited from our ancient lineage can influence us and interfere with our ability to create our desires today.

“Our DNA is like a giant storybook,” says Ruby. “Of the 46 chapters (scientifically referred to as chromosomes) in our personal book of life, 22 chapters were handed down through our mother’s lineage, and 22 chapters were handed down through our father’s lineage. The two additional chapters are composed of our God Code, which contains our original blueprint for perfection. Each chapter is made up of tens of thousands of stories—or what scientists call genes.”

She also notes that genes can be turned on or off because the genetic programs we inherit don’t always express themselves immediately when we are born. Over the years of Ruby’s work with DNA and healing, she has found that emotions are the key factor that determine which genes are turned on or off. Sometimes specific patterns don’t show up in our lives unless an event triggers them.

For example, the potential that we could develop a certain illness may have been in our genes all along, but we don’t experience this illness until a specific event or emotion triggers an ancient memory. The gene turns on, causing the illness to come to the surface. Like so many functions in our body, these triggers are activated without our awareness.

According to Ruby, re-setting your genetic code can be accomplished by following a five-step program, a technique she developed from her twenty years in private practice. First, you uncover the emotional framework in which disease, illness and other blocks originate and take hold. The next step is to consciously rewrite the program.

The idea that we can rewrite our genetic code may seem unbelievable to some. Ruby does provide research to support her claim, including the work of Nobel Prize winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, whose work in the 1940s revealed that our genetic code is not static, but is affected by stresses in the environment. Neuroscientist Candice Pert’s landmark work Molecules of Emotion reveals that the mind does not simply dominate the body—it in fact becomes the body and communicates through our emotions. Intuitive healer Caroline Myss states in Anatomy of the Spirit that “our biography becomes our biology.”

Similar related subjects in the The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton and The God Code by Gregg Braden show that the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts. Ruby takes these concepts to the next level by not only showing how your thoughts affect the DNA, but also how your ancestors’ thoughts and feelings from past generations can affect your DNA, for better or for worse.

Ruby’s documented personal experiences and those of her clients carry the most weight. She details a dramatic healing of a friend who was diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease for which there is no known cure. By discovering the emotions and belief systems that created the energy interference within the DNA and thereby triggered the disease, Ruby worked with her friend to neutralize the detrimental emotions and to remove the unsupportive belief system. Physicians who had never witnessed a reversal of this disease were astonished when their patient’s body immediately began to heal itself.

In another account, a 16-year-old boy, Sam, experienced the unexpected death of his father on his birthday. Shortly after Sam developed an allergy to wheat, with symptoms that appeared to be life threatening. By investigating the history of Sam’s family, Ruby discovered that a great-grandfather had migrated to the United States from Russia after his family had been tragically massacred in a wheat field. Thus the ancestral story encoded in Sam’s DNA was that wheat was related to death. The death of Sam’s father triggered the code. By re-writing the DNA program, the boy was no longer allergic to wheat.

“Emotions are, in effect, the vibratory templates that turn our genes on or off. They activate the stories that have been sleeping in our genes,” Ruby says. She concludes, like many current researchers, “that our DNA is not a fixed code, but a flexible code.” The key is to replace the flawed patterns with new, positive patterns. Ultimately, “healing is understanding our life’s journey, and gaining the ability to move forward with that journey.”

By understanding the significance of this process, one is immediately struck by the power of legacy—not only the legacy we inherit from our forebears, but the heritage that each of us will pass on. When we heal ourselves, we heal not only the past and present, but future generations as well.

Susanne Sims is a health and wellness travel consultant, and the author of Healing Vacations in Hawaii (Watermark Publishing). Visit healingvacationsinhawaii.com.