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What Control Do You Have?
The control you have is real and powerful — but you alone can choose to take it.
The human mind is so powerful that science and medicine still only barely understand its capacity.
What’s more, your mind is not just the central processing unit (CPU) of your physical body. It is where you reside in the form by which you most identify.
Thoughts and feelings are to your intangible self as water is to the tangible. Water makes up more than 70% of planet Earth, and around 60% of your body — thoughts and feelings make up probably 75% of your intangible self. The rest? Memory, psyche, the subconscious. But that 25% runs really, really deep.
This has been one of the most devastating years for virtually everyone. A global pandemic that the United States, at least, has let run amok — not to mention a widening political and frankly moral divide amid some of the ugliest politics ever. What’s more, this is impacting people on every imaginable level — from news you have no control over to your personal life.
COVID-19 took 3 people from my life thus far. Many of my friends are coping with children not being able to safely return to school — and still working full-time. Teacher friends of mine are trying to determine how to teach without being exposed, too…
