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We Can Choose What We Want To Be

We Can Choose What We Want To Be

At any given moment, there are three things going on in our brain: think thoughts, feel emotions, and run physiological responses to what we are thinking and feeling. Each of these activities is completely dependent on the health and well-being of the cells that are performing those functions.

We have the power to choose moment by moment who and how we want to be.

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