James Sheridan - The YOU Code: Your New Life Map Hidden in Your Ancient Genes

THE YOU CODE 2020 James Sheridan. All rights reserved.

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Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sheridan, James, 1970- author.

Title: The YOU code : your new life map hidden in your ancient genes / James Sheridan.

Description: Sonoita, AZ : Dudley Court Press, [2020]

Identifiers:

ISBN: 978-1-940013-76-3 (paper)

978-1-940013-81-7 (ebook)

LCCN: 2020914669

Subjects:

LCSH: Self-help techniques. | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Self-realization. Human behaviorGenetic aspects. | PersonalityGenetic aspects. Human genetics. | Nature and nurture. | Medical genetics. | Genetic genealogy. Genotype-environment interaction. | Interpersonal relations. Interpersonal communication. | Success.

BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / New Thought.

SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General.

SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational.

Classification:

LCC: BF632 .S447 2020

DDC: 158.1dc23

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For you, both of you.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern.

W ILLIAM B LAKE

Your great journey inward begins at the beginning of time. Solve the mystery of where your inherent nature comes from and why its the key to your new life map.

The search and rescue mission for your soul begins here.

Uncover the job description written into your ancient genes that defines you and grants you passage to the Bliss State.

Love and relationships. Discover how knowing Genetypes leads to harmonious relationships, and the crucial balance that played a pivotal role in our distant past.

Nothing matters if you dont survive. Putting Genetypes aside, we focus on maximizing your longevity, learning what surprising lessons for your health are hidden in your ancient genes and how they work against us in the modern day.

What stands in the way of many Genetypes living according to their inherent purpose is lack of financial independence, but written into our DNA are secrets and cycles that master the game of business and money with spookily accurate results.

Putting it all together, bringing every Genetype together, see how humanity now faces a unique challenge to its survival and how your new life map relates to the rebirth of the species with a code that was written into our genes for tens of thousands of years.

Special thanks to the thousands of people across the world who became my research subjects and beta testers over the last decade for the core theory of this work; from the focus groups, the seminar attendees, the clients, and the friends, to the unsuspecting strangers on barstools, the expressions on your faces empowered my every word. Thank you to the people who helped me bring this to life: Gail Woodard and the Dudley Court Press team (Carrie, Celia, Lora, Teresa, and Wilma), Pam Nordberg, Kathi Dunn, Tina Nguyen, and Emily Heckman. Thanks, Jack Canfield, for your validation and support. And thank you to my old history teacher, Mr. Bearman, for only encouraging my endless questions.

There is an old saying: Leopards cant change their spots. In other words, its in our nature to act a certain way, and our basic personality never changes. This isnt cynical; its powerful. Why should leopards change their spots, their edge, the camouflage that lets them realize their purpose to be hunters? If a leopard were to hunt out of its natural environment, in a gray urban area, would it lose its edge of camouflage and quickly be spotted by its prey? If a leopard were captured and caged, or forced to carry hay around a farm, would the leopards spirit fade away? Like the leopard, we too are animals, but we are disconnected from, and hidden from, our true nature. My mission is to help you find your spots and show you how to best use them in this contemporary jungle, to acquire tailor-made happiness and prosperity.

The leopards life map is in its ancient genes, a biological blueprint that defines its natural behavior patterns. Each leopard will have a different nurture experience since birth, but they are still leopards. Humans are much more complex animals with more complex needs and desires, but we also have a biological blueprint that defines our natural behavior patterns, and ours varies between members of the same species. My focus is on you uncovering and reconnecting to your biological nature, and disconnecting from your biographical nurture.

Of course, nurture does affect our behavior and can cause desirable outcomes, but its not the path to our true self and finding our purpose. Humans are inclined to polarize opinions, so we take extreme sides on the nature versus nurture argument, but the reality is that both our nature and our nurture unconsciously affect our behavior. With awareness and perhaps professional help we can identify and overcome the nurtured behaviors that can be so self-sabotaging, and this is the side of us that we can and should change. But trying to change the nature were born with is like trying to separate our shadow; its who we are. Once you know who and what you are, everything in life suddenly falls into place because your inherent purpose becomes obvious, and this plots a course to happiness on a life map thats specific to you.

Life is a journey down a corridor of dilemmas, always a door to choose. Should I marry this person or not? Should I take that job or not? Should I move home? We choose a door, and then a whole new corridor of dilemmas opens up as we continue this journey, an endless web of binary choices and outcomes. Without having the right life map, our decision making is haphazard, wrong, or simply nonexistent. What skews our judgment in that corridor are the voices of our past: parents, teachers, society, all the people whove scratched away at our true self. But the voice most worth listening to is the one that resonates with your nature. What often stops us listening to this voice of our nature is that it seems to originate from a place buried deep inside us,