the Villa Straylight
the basic truths of the universe

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If you want to help someone, teach them how to hate armadillos.

This quote is from an example in a psychology class of a cancer patient using his imagination to fight his illness. He was taught to imagine his cancer as an armadillo and his immune system as a defending army protecting him from it by trying to kill the little armored monster. Fascinatingly, these kinds of mind games have be shown to actually be helpful. The mind is more involved in physical health than most people realize.


from the mind of David Andrew Michael Noelle
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