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Florence  Williams
“We mammals have specialized nerve fibers under the skin called cutaneous C afferents. These nerves love to be caressed at slow speeds, according to science (in case we didn’t already know). When we are touched in this way, our breathing slows, our blood pressure drops, and our muscles relax. Psychologists have measured the way having friends or loved ones holding your hand can help mitigate pain in patients undergoing medical procedures. But recently they have begun to look at touch and the easing of social pain.”
Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

James R. Doty
“Visualization works because, amazingly, the brain does not distinguish between an actual physical experience and one that is intensely imagined.”
James R. Doty, Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

Richard Powers
“If we could see green, we’d see a thing that keeps getting more interesting the closer we get. If we could see what green was doing, we’d never be lonely or bored. If we could understand green, we’d learn how to grow all the food we need in layers three deep, on a third of the ground we need right now, with plants that protected one another from pests and stress. If we knew what green wanted, we wouldn’t have to choose between the Earth’s interests and ours. They’d be the same!”
Richard Powers, The Overstory

Bessel van der Kolk
“Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships. When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.”
Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

James R. Doty
“Although the rest-and-digest response is much more appropriate to flourishing in today’s world, it is engaged in a constant struggle for control over the body and mind.”
James R. Doty, Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

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