We inherit memories –

Did you know that we inherit memories and other factors from our families that affect the way our biology manifests itself, the way we behave, and the stress responses we have in certain situations?

They exist with animals suggesting that “behavior may be affected by events in previous generations and that these are passed on in the form of genetic memory.”

We inherit memories: research studies

Brian G. Dias and are professors in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Yorkes National Primate Research Center. In 2013 they published in the renowned journal Nature Neuroscience, the article “” (“The olfactory experience of parents influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations”) where they explain their experiments with mice to examine “the inheritance of traumatic exposure from parents, a phenomenon that has been observed frequently but is not understood”.

A group of mice called F0 were conditioned to feel fear of a certain smell, they induced stress by smelling cherry blossom, so that the stress was recorded in their memory. Just the smell of cherry, not another kind of smell. This conditioning was done before that of their offspring. The group of F1 mice are the next generation and “show greater behavioral sensitivity to the same stimulus.” The most surprising thing is that the group of F2 mice, which are the third generation, clearly show a stress response to the smell of cherry trees when they have never been trained for it.

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“Our findings provide a framework for addressing how It can be inherited transgenerationally at the behavioral, neuroanatomical and epigenetic levels”.

Brian G. Dias and Kerry J. Ressler

This memory of “avoiding the cherry blossom” also generated changes in the brain structure. “A parent’s experiences, even before conceiving, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of later generations.” According to Dr. Dias the findings provide evidence of “transgenerational epigenetic inheritance” in which the environment can affect an individual’s genetics which “in turn can be passed on.” And he flatly affirms that “there is no doubt that what happens to him will affect later generations.”

For his part, Professor Marcus Pembrey of University College London stresses that these findings provide “convincing evidence” that a form of memory could pass between . And he urges public health researchers “to take human responses seriously” because he suspects that “we are not going to understand the rise in neuropsychiatric disorders or diabetes, and metabolic disorders in general, without considering the multigenerational approach ”.

Bioneuroemoción® and inherited memories

From Bioneuroemoción® we suggest that the information that ours contains is a personal patrimony that we cannot ignore.

Knowing the experiences of our ancestors and, above all, how they lived them, that is, the sensations that made them feel while they lived them, allows us to understand our way of living current experiences. And at the same time, observing our sensations in certain situations can serve as a clue to understand how our ancestors lived their own circumstances.

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“What are we, what is our character, if not the condensation of the history that we have lived since our birth, even before our birth, since we carry with us prenatal dispositions? No doubt we only think with a small part of our past; but it is with our entire past, including our original soul curvature, that we desire, want, and act.”

Henry Bergson.

When a person accesses this information and relates it to their own experience, then they can become aware of their transgenerational memories. He gives meaning to things that he had not understood up to that point in his own life and that understanding generates a sense of peace.

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