Epigenetics is the new field, meaning "control above the genes". DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cells and energetic messages emerging from positive and negative thoughts/environments, not by inheritance or genes. Genes are blueprints and can be "on" or "off" and can be changed by feelings and perceptions.  Since we have the power to change our minds, we absolutely can change our genes, and it's called epigenetics.

Robin Holliday defined epigenetics as "the study of the mechanisms of temporal and spatial control of gene activity during the development of complex organisms." Thus epigenetic can be used to describe anything other than DNA sequence that influences the development of an organism. 

Epigenetics suggests that our DNA is recording everything we think, say, do, feel believe, etc. It is also recording everything we experience and what is in our environment both in reality and our imagination.