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Vanessa Potter

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Shipley, The United Kingdom

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https://www.vanessapotter.com

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patienth69

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Nonfiction, Science, Memoir

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October 2020

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Curiosity is at the heart of everything I do — curiosity about my brain — the way in which I think — and how different "mind-training" tools might better improve my life.
There's good reason for that curiosity too. In 2012 when I woke up blind and paralysed, it was my own mind that saved me. Who would have guessed that meditating would be my most powerful ally?
Before all of this self-experimenting kicked off I was an award winning telly producer making all of those ads that you turn off. When fate conspired to turn the lights out on me, I decided to use my terrier producer skills to investigate the science of ME. What I found out changed the course of my life.

Finding My Right Mind: One Woman's Experiment to put Meditation to the Test is th ...more

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Vanessa Potter Is it annoying if I say I don't really suffer this? I suffer the opposite problem of having too much to say. At these times I allow myself an indulgen…moreIs it annoying if I say I don't really suffer this? I suffer the opposite problem of having too much to say. At these times I allow myself an indulgent ramble and see where it leads. Sometimes nowhere, but often I find some nuggets in amongst the bumf. (less)

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Average rating: 3.57 · 184 ratings · 30 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight 3.53 avg rating — 162 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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