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What to Do When You Feel Stuck & How Alternative Health Practices Can Actually Work

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What Is Visualization After a Stroke?

Harvard researchers got people to play at notes on a piano for two hours every day for five days. They measured physical change in brain structure in a particular region. But they asked a separate group of people to imagine playing the notes on the piano. And here's the key, they have to imagine as if they really were playing them and imagine what that was like. Both sets of scans had shown substantial changes in brain structure. That led scientists to conclude that in a number of very important ways, the brain doesn't really make a distinction tin whether something is actually happening, or whether you're imagini that happening.

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