In my practice I see a lot of people who are dealing in one form or another with anxiety – that tricky emotional state of discomfort and unrest mixed with worry. This emotional state is prevalent in our society. Drugs prescribed for anxiety (i.e.Xanax) are the most prescribed psychiatric medications in the U.S.
But let’s say that you are in good health, not taking or using any drugs or alcohol,and still you have bouts of anxiety that don’t seem to have any rhyme or reason. For example – you have never had any bad experiences on a boat yet every time you are faced with going on a boat you become anxious. Why?
problems with boats, but your mother may have capsized and now you carry her anxiety.
noses and more brain space devoted to cherry-blossom-smelling. The transmission of these traits is thought to be through epigenetic inheritance. Epigenetics studies the proteins around the DNA that determine how the DNA will be read.