Archive of Fractal Memories
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“Memories are not like fiction. They are fiction. We are built to remember relatively little and to creatively fill in the holes so that we seem to have a complete picture.”
–Jonah Lehrer and Bhalla Jag, from I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears
Fractals
“In discerning our fractal nature, we are nature contemplating and embodying ourselves.”
–Our Fractal Nature
frac s tal — noun. Term from Mathematics, Physics, Life and Nature. Latin fract(us) — uneven + al, fraction of something, a term introduced by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.
A fractal is a textured geometric shape. It can be split into parts, each of which is roughly a smaller version of the larger part, exhibiting self-similarity. While fractals are a mathematical construct, they are found in nature, artwork, our bodies, the stock market, and the universe. They behave in a magical way, as if the dimensions of the structure — its fractal dimensions — are greater than the spatial dimensions. In other words, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Archive of Fractal Memories
DNA represents our ancestral memories. The self-similarity of mitochondrial DNA from our mothers shows up in its loop-like distribution along the genome. The double helix of DNA from both our parents and ancestors represents an ideal electromagnetic antenna. The shape of a space-filling fractal curve, our DNA has the structure of a superconductor storing virtually unlimited amounts of information.
What is created from that initial DNA is complex and influenced by many factors. It is noteworthy that the eggs containing half our DNA — the eggs from which we developed — were already formed inside our mothers’ bodies, even when they were babies inside their own mothers — our grandmothers.
What, if anything, from your grandmother’s environment influences the choices you make today?
While our brains are information-gathering, perceiving, memory-storage devices, we always interpret the information we receive. We can revisit the memories held there and reinterpret them. The more information we can access consciously, the more we can interpret our pasts and imagine our futures in ways that serve us.
Do you have clear memories and a useful perspective on your life?
In the brain, the fluid system also seems to act as an antenna picking up information and frequencies from our environment. It then encodes the information as patterns in the surrounding liquid.
Homeopathic Medicine, Reiki, Matrix Energetics, Wisdom Healing Qigong, Health Coaching, and Non-Violent Communication are a few information-based healing modalities. Attention to information itself can be curative.
The Latin curatio means both attention and curing.
Homeopaths and other information practitioners provide the individual with knowledge in the form of a remedy, a fluid, a tablet, a technique, or a symbol that allows the person to shift how his or her body deals with patterns of past injuries or conditions. This new input allows for a new awareness, a new perspective, and a new choice in fulfilling needs. New information interacting with old patterns is a “game changer.”
What in your life is currently in need of a “game changer”?
Fractals teach us that our memories and what we perceive from our environment are all just information. We can store wisdom as memories that increase our creative responses to life. Our fractal-structured sensory systems are capable of picking up an infinite number of signals and vibrations.
How are you choosing to dance to the music you hear?
As we sift through our memories and experiences, the ones we choose to focus on and the ones we choose to release can bring us peace or create conflict. Remembering experiences from a particular perspective allows us to wake up peacefully every morning, ready for the day, looking forward to the people we will meet and the opportunities we will have to make a difference. Focusing from a different perspective on the same memories can ruin our relationships and lock us into patterns of frustration, anger, and blame. Our fractal branching brains can remember many relationship patterns and allow us new choices in the future.
Sometimes focusing on what we want more of in our lives is easier than focusing on what we want less of.
What are we going towards? What is flowing towards us? Where are we in the patterns? Exploring these questions is easier, more productive, and more joyful than focusing on how to let go of what we don’t want. Think for a moment about something you have too much of in your life.
Is the thought familiar? Is it the same as the last time you felt it? Is it boring in its sameness? Are there an infinite number of exciting ways in which you can feel and function ideally?
Our ability to consider our memories, imagine the future, and make better and better choices is rooted in our biology.
Connect to Your Fractal Health
As you look at a picture of a DNA molecule imagine the spiraling storybook that is your DNA. Contemplate the chapters you want to rewrite or reinterpret.
Remember a “happy” memory from the past. Now in your minds-eye change some to the details — the clothing the people are wearing, the weather, your age at the time. Notice how changing the details affects your feelings about the experience.
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DNA and The Heart Beat — Fractals in Biological Systems
“Here we discuss recent advances in applying ideas of fractals and disordered systems to two topics of biological interest, both topics having common the appearance of scale-free phenomena, i.e., correlations that have no characteristic length scale, typically exhibited by physical systems near a critical point and dynamical systems far from equilibrium.
(i) DNA nucleotide sequences have traditionally been analyzed using models which incorporate the possibility of short-range nucleotide correlations. We found, instead, a remarkably long-range power law correlation. We found such long-range correlations in intron-containing genes and in non-transcribed regulatory DNA sequences as well as intragenomic DNA, but not in cDNA sequences or intron-less genes. We also found that the myosin heavy chain family gene evolution increases the fractal complexity of the DNA landscapes, consistent with the intron-late hypothesis of gene evolution.
(ii) The healthy heartbeat is traditionally thought to be regulated according to the classical principle of homeostasis, whereby physiologic systems operate to reduce variability and achieve an equilibrium-like state. We found, however, that under normal conditions, beat-to-beat fluctuations in heart rate display long-range power law correlations. Stanley, H. E., S. V. Buldyrev, et al. (1992). “Fractal landscapes in biological systems: long-range correlations in DNA and interbeat heart intervals.” Physica A 191(1–4): 1–12.
Originally Published at Our Fractal Nature A Journey of Self-Discovery and Connection by Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine). A Messenger Mini Book, 2011.
