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The Extraordinary Power of the Imagination in Healing
By Tami Simon
You could argue that there’s three coding languages, one being your native language, the second being mathematics, [or] ways of representing the world internally to yourself, and the third is through imagery. And imagery happens to be one that affects our mood and our physiology much more powerfully than the other two.
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