Welcome to Live Happy Now. This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

This week we have a really special episode. We're talking with Dawson Church, whose groundbreaking

book, The Genie in Your Genes, explained the link between emotions and genetics. In his new book,

Mind to Matter, Dawson looks at the science of achieving peak mental

states and shows the scientific research behind how the energy around us shapes our physical health

and what we can do to change our state for a happier and healthier life. Well, Dawson, thank you so

much for joining us today on Live Happy Now. It's really an honor to have you on the show today.

Thanks, Paul. It's a pleasure to be here. You know, this, your book Mind to Matter is absolutely

one of the most interesting books I have read all year. And there's, there's so many different things

that we could talk about with this. But I think one thing that's just so interesting is that you talk about how energy fields

shape matter. And to start this conversation, I wondered if you could give us an example of what

that means and how that works in our everyday lives. Energy fields are invisible. And so it's tempting

as we go about our daily lives to discount them and not

understand or appreciate the extent of which they're affecting us and affecting matter.

But just the way a fish is in water and unaware of the water, and yet without the water,

there's no fish.

In the same way, energy fields permeate and influence every single part of our lives.

And just for instance, one example from the end of my book, Mind Matter, is the Earth's geomagnetic field. And so the earth is a huge magnet, has a north and

south pole, which you measure with a compass. And so this big giant magnet we live on has its

own feel around it, just the way a bar magnet you may have seen in school that organizes iron filings

in a pattern rounded. It's organizing environments all around it all the time.

So one of the ways this has shown up in science recently, for example, is that now that we

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