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The Architecture of Thought: Mind Over Matter Is Real, but You Have to Believe it to See it

The Architecture of Thought: Mind Over Matter Is Real, but You Have to Believe it to See it by Samantha Glorioso. Photograph of a man thinking behind a window by Felipe Rizo
Photograph by Felipe Rizo

The mind is an infinitely powerful tool, but we have only skimmed the surface of what we know about our mind’s ability to heal and empower us

We live in a world where our thoughts are largely viewed as passive, almost inconsequential passages of ideas. These associations are kept in stasis until physically acted upon — mere electro-chemical reactions that tickle our 100 billion nerve cells via the trillion synapses joining them. As biophysicist Francis Crick succinctly put it, we really are nothing more than a pack of neurons.

But what

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