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MM: What makes you the right person for understanding how emotions, the brain and health work? ML: I used to work in a brain lab doing connections with certain areas of the brain. However, in addition to going to medical school and becoming a physician and examining emotional patterns that affected their capacity to get better or worse with medicines. And why couldn’t certain people why couldn’t you make them better with science? Or with your understanding of brain pathways? I have a PhD. I’m a doctorate scientist in brain connections. Why does that make me exquisitely skilled to understand Louise Hay’s affirmations [Editor Note: Louise Hay – Author So then, I got sick of the book ‘Heal Your - a bit like everyBody’]? Because, I body. There’s a understand the conphrase called nections between the ‘necessity is the right brain and the left, mother of invenbetween emotions, tion’, or, ‘when thoughts and behavior. And the connections people, I’ve learned the going gets tough; between the brain and that only certain things the tough get going’. the body and its health. could make people better. There were certain When you get sick, and 27