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• This is the thing. Emotions are not attached to you; because you are not your brain, you don’t have to identify with your existing brain circuits.
• 40 million heartbeats per year, nearly three billion pulsations over a lifetime of 70 to 80 years.
• (more expanded) mind must be orchestrating
• Applying this reasoning to their own lives, many interviewees understood that many of their thoughts not only did not serve their health, but also might be the reason their unhappy or unhealthful conditions developed in the first place. Many of them had spent nearly every day for decades in internal states of anxiety, worry, sadness, jealousy, ange...
• their attitudes: groups of thoughts that are clustered in habitual sequences.5 One’s attitudes create a state of being that is directly connected to the body. Thus, a person who wants to improve his health has to change entire patterns in how he thinks, and these new thought patterns or attitudes will eventually change his state of being. To do thi...