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Why Changing Your Mindset Can Change Your Health

The Wellness Scoop

CHAPTER

Do You Know What You're Doing?

In one study, volunteers were asked to play a sequence of five notes an a piano for two hours and five consecutive days. When they played the notes with their fingers, another group was asked to place their hands flat, close their eyes and play the notes in their mind. And amazingly, on the friday, you couldn't tell the difference between those who did this and those who didn't. The brain doesn't really make a distinction between whether something's really happening or whether you're imagining it happening. That opens up an entire cand o worms and a sense of what we are possibly capable of. There's no limits, really, to what our imagination can do.

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