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Mantak Chia - A Modern Taoist Master

Famous for his books on cultivating male and female sexuality, Mantak Chia is probably the most quoted, misquoted and plagiarised of writers on esoteric sex. Less well known is his...more

Manual Lymphatic Drainage - Therapeutic Applications

Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) involves light, rhythmical massage that aids the body in collecting and moving lymphatic fluid, which plays a key role in delivering nutrients, anti...more

Manual Lymphatic Drainage and its Therapeutic Benefits

MLD is a highly specialised form of massage, which uses light, rhythmical, very precise hand movements, pressures and sequences and requires the therapist to develop a great degree...more

Mapping a Path to Enlightenment

The author bases this article on her latest book, Passage to Freedom, and looks at the seven steps to achieving enlightenment. She states that peace, contentment and knowledge are ...more

Marrying Theatre with Personal Transformation

The author focuses on the therapeutic benefits of theatre. Her fascination with the theatre and quest for self-exploration led her to the discovery of dramatherapy – the healing po...more

Marshmallow the Most Soothing of Herbs

Marshmallow (Althea officinalis) is a handsome and stately perennial from the Malvaceae family, with soft velvety leaves and pink flowers. As its name suggests, it is found growing...more

Massage and Cancer-Related Fatigue: Benefits and Cautions

One of the most common symptoms associated with cancer and its treatment is fatigue. For many people, it is the major troubling symptom and the primary cause of distress, being even...more

Massage and Complex Trauma: A Case Study

In this column on Body Massage, the author presents a case study of massage techniques regarding a client who suffered complex trauma as a result of prolonged, overwhelming abuse a...more

Massage and the Importance of Medical Input

The author, a Massage, Craniosacral and Psychotherapist, focuses on the importance of medical input in relation to body massage. As her brother is a Medical Consultant, she is in t...more

Massage for Detoxification

This article describes what toxins are, the different types that exist, where they originate, and how different body functions work to get rid of them. The latter part of the art...more

Massage in Schools to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

Soveig Berggren looks at how massage can be used in schools to relax and centre children. She started her first project in 1996 with a class of 10-year-olds in a school in southern...more

Massage is Relaxing. Discuss...

The author touches on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy), the internationally recognized and well-researched treatment for trauma, and the Holosync technology - develope...more

Massage Matters: Massage and Medication

This column focuses on the use of proper medication and massage techniques on an elderly woman with a complex medical picture....as she suffers from lower back pain due to wear and...more

Massage Techniques for Childbirth

Touch, in the form of a positive massage during labour, was an area I wanted to explore to determine whether it is a useful way of shifting the focus of active support away from th...more

Massage Therapy for people with Cancer: A Practitioner's Experience

In this article, Louise Roy describes her experience with one cancer patient and discusses the challenges facing massage practitioners. During training, many massage students are w...more

Massage, Sex and Supervision

This article focuses on the erotic aspect of body massage and why practitioners and clients rarely get turned on, despite there being some similarities between some of the rituals ...more

Mastering Your Emotions - Waking WREMS State

WREMS – Waking REM State is a skill. Not therapy or pop-psych or new age magic – it is a practical tool that allows you direct access to your subconscious mind and the power to cal...more

Matrix Energy Field Therapy

In Energy Field Therapy there is conscious manipulation of the energy flow for the purposes of healing and personal transformation. It aims to access disruptions to the energy flow...more

Matrix Repatterning(tm) - The Structural Basis of Health

In this authoritative feature, Dr. George Roth, the originator of Matrix Repatterning, explains how symptoms, especially in chronic conditions, are often the result of the compensa...more

Maybe God Does Play Dice?

Walk into any regular supermarkets and read the ingredients in all the nicely packaged foods they sell. Most will contain toxic substances, whether it is colorants, trans-fats, pres...more

McTimoney Chiropractic

As the largest healthcare profession in the world after medicine and dentistry, and in the light of the new legislation regulating its practice in the UK, chiropractic is fast beco...more

McTimoney Chiropractic

McTimoney chiropractic is a particular branch of the profession in the UK which developed for some years outside of the apparent mainstream, so to speak. There are over 300 McTimon...more

McTimoney-Corley Spinal Therapy

This article focuses on McTimoney-Corley Spinal Therapy, a treatment that involves gentle whole body manipulation. The therapy works at the level of adjusting the bones and realign...more

ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Causes and the Amygdala Retraining Recovery Programme

This article focuses on ME, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which affects approximately 250,000 people in the UK. However, as yet, there is no agreement in the medica...more

ME a misunderstood and much maligned disease

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is an illness which for years has divided the medical profession, yet no-one who has experienced it, or who has had the responsibility of caring for ...more

ME-CFS: Redefining Rest and Learning to be a Psychopath

At this moment, I am struggling with at least three themes: Getting ‘rest’ recognized as ‘treatment’, getting the influence of certain psychiatrists recognized as part of our societ...more

ME, CFS, Now SEID

I was dreading the outcome of the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on ME/CFS. All of us who have this illness (or one of these illnesses) know from bitter experience that phy...more

ME: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Mercury Exhaustion?

The author looks at connections between musculature, the nervous system and the brain and examines similar symptoms of toxicity given different diagnostic “labels” by the medical sy...more

ME/CFS Advice for 2019

I apologise in advance to both those who already know and practise much of this, and to those who will find it much too complicated and long-winded. ME/CFS is a big and complicated...more

ME/CFS, Covid, Long Covid: Rest and Ivermectin

This article is a discussion of the role of old-fashioned rest, and the widely used drug, Ivermectin in the treatment of Covid 19. We are now well into the second year of a pandemic...more

ME/CFS, NLP and the Lightning Process™ in the Looking Glass

The purpose of this article is to provide an explanation of the theoretical model and practical processes underlying both appropriate and inappropriate use of NLP in the treatment o...more

ME/CFS: Ethical and Unethical Uses of NLP

This article will not be welcomed by those who practice and believe in the use of NLP as an effective treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - ME/CFS.more

ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Under or Misdiagnosed?

ME is not a very useful term. It has evolved from a diagnosis used in the 1950s, Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, stemming from the Ancient Greek meaning painful and ‘inflammation ...more

Meat, How to Keep it a Healthy Part of your Diet

Last month saw more good news for vegetarians. An announcement from the World Health Organisation (WHO) informed us that processed meat definitely causes cancer. Processed meat has ...more

Medical Astrology - The Four Elements in Therapy

The author is qualified in Nutritional Medicine, Iridology, as well as being a student of Medical Astrology. The article describes the four major astrological elements, earth, fire...more

Medical Education Needs Booster Dose

What is the purpose of medical education, especially in today’s context – when it continues to struggle in the face of the Covid-19 tornado? The answer is simple – medical educati...more

Medical Fraud Exposed

When the roof and the foundations of a house begin to collapse, the demolition guys get called in. Likewise, as the foundations of conventional medicine begin to collapse, the medi...more

Medical Intuition - Interview with Lori Wilson BA MSW

Medical intuition can often pinpoint pre-clinical information, imbalances or weaknesses in specific areas, subtle issues, as well as the strengths in a person's energy field. This ...more

Medical Ozone as a Potential Alternative for Knee Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is the most common musculoskeletal condition in older people. It is estimated that a third of people aged 45 years and over in the UK have sought treatment for osteoa...more

Medical Qigong - An Innovative Treatment for Hypertension

In this article the author maintains that hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure, is the number one morbidity factor in developed countries. Allopathic (conventio...more

Medicinal Application of Caribbean Herbs

The Caribbean region is more than just a sun and sand holiday destination. It is considered to be one of 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world and is certainly a 'hotspot' for medic...more

Medicinal Mushrooms - Ancient Medicine in Modern Times

Although mushrooms have been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years, their medicinal properties and health benefits have now been proved through clinical studies, p...more

Medicinal Mushrooms - The New Addition to Western Herbal Medicine

This article focuses on Medicinal Mushrooms, which have been used for millennia in traditional medical practices in the East. Fungus, such as Ganoderma Lucidum (resihi, ling zhi) w...more

Medicinal Mushrooms: Natural Supplement for Diabetics

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease where the body has increased blood sugar levels due to two reasons, in the majority of cases: the regulatory anabolic hormone, the ins...more

Medicinal Plants for Curing Common Ailments in India

The Patalkot forest is so well hidden that people on the outside didn't even know it existed. It is a very special place, rich with plants and animals. The natives who live there k...more

Medicine’s Fresh New Hope

It goes without saying that neurobiology holds fresh hope for individuals suffering from emotional as well as other developmental disorders. This is because of the prospect of quic...more

Meditating On a Plastic Bottle!

The author discusses the subject of meditation, and of retreats, in which people experience an environment conducive to re-evaluation of their lives, meditative development, a se...more

Meditation - A Practical Approach to the Art of Relaxed Awareness

The author, a meditation teacher, emphasizes important aspects of his role, such as reassurance and encouragement, as well as the wide knowledge he needs to impart in terms of the ...more

Meditation - a Way of Life

So much time is spent living in the relative dream worlds of the future or the past, we would do well to remember that both come from the present moment. The more we are able to li...more

Meditation - Antidote to Stress

Nancy Goudie, public speaker, author, broadcaster, singer and teacher, looks at the possibility of alleviating stress through meditation.more

Meditation & Mindfulness Toward Positive Transformation and Fulfilment

We all exist in two different worlds. One is the external world; the other is our inner world. We tend to spend all of our time in the outer world but very little, if any, in our i...more

Meditation and Stress Coping using Kabbalistic Techniques and Techniques for Releasing Anxiety

This article focuses on the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah and how it can be applied in our lives to help us cope with various situations such as stress.more

Meditation for Health

Put simply, meditation is a way of slowing down. By sitting for maybe twenty or thirty minutes at a time, focusing on your chosen process, you can move into a space where you may e...more

Meditation for ME / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Conditions

The author explains that stress, and the stress response, play an important role in the factors which lead up to ME, and then even more so as a response to the symptoms, as the s...more

Meditation for Personal Transformation

This article is not written to your intellect. It is addressed to someone deeper within you. Read slowly. Do your best to just read it without judgment, and soon you will begin to ...more

Meditation for Self-Realization

This article describes an ancient form of pure meditation, involving learning and practising given breaths. It is a deeper meditation than the meditative states that can be achieve...more

Meditation: Staying Present to the Now

To live fully in the present is to become awakened to what is truly real and to our own natural power. Much of our life is spent living in the past, and in the process, attempting ...more

Meditations To Boost Back Health

As a known and published spinal surgeon, Dr Ken Hansraj has dedicated more than 20 years of his life to helping people across the globe improve their spinal health. He is a prominen...more

Meet the Endocannibanoids - Pleasure Producers, Pain Relievers - And Much More: The Bodywork Connection

In this Expert Column, Leon Chaitow looks at our body’s ability to produce virtually identical chemicals to those that appear in cannabis. He tells us that through exercise and t...more

Memories of My Trip to Domaine de L'Ylang-Ylang

This is the story of the author's first inspiring visit to Mauritius in January 2001 and first long-haul flight. It was there that she discovered a remote site called Domaine de L'...more

Menopause - A Chinese Approach

The author has been practising acupuncture since she qualified with The College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in 1984 and is a founding member of the Scottish Post Polio Netwo...more

Menopause - Natural Approaches

Natural approaches using a variety of complementary therapies to alleviate menopausal symptoms are known and can be exceedingly effective for both constitutional and symptomatic cl...more

Menopause Nutrition for IBS and your Gut

Many women experience gut symptoms in midlife. Bloating, gas, discomfort around your middle, diarrhoea or constipation are all common gut problems. They may be labelled as IBS and ...more

Menopause the Natural Way

There are few women who would turn down the chance to look and feel younger if a magic pill were offered. But is HRT really such an elixir, or could it actually shorten life? New...more

Menopause: Gateway to Better Health

The Chinese do not have a name for the Menopause. Interestingly, the ending of periods is not considered an illness in China, but instead a natural and healthy transition from one p...more

Mental Health Benefits of Nature

What if there was a natural way to uplift your mood, destress, promote a sense of wellbeing, leave you calm yet energised, without side-affects, dependency or prescription? What if ...more

Mental Health Concerns during the Pandemic

The raging Corona pandemic has taken a heavy toll on human lives and health. Grim statistics stare you in the face every morning. Apart from people dying and hospitals bursting at t...more

Mental Health: the Psyche's Journey to Wholeness

Transpersonal psychology is a school of psychology that encompasses the transcendent, the spiritual dimension, 'trans' meaning 'beyond' the personal.more

Mercury Amalgam Fillings - Removal & Detoxification

Catherine Crawford, an aromatherapist with a diploma in nutritional medicine, describes how, at the age of 46, she decided to seek help from a sympathetic dentist to remove her ama...more

Mercury and Selenium - The Battle of the Elements

Dental students are taught that amalgams are composed of a mixture of metals with varying composition of mercury, silver, zinc, tin and copper. They are told that these individual ...more

Mercury Free Dentistry

We are dentists. Definitely not normal dentists. We realised over ten years ago that mercury from amalgam fillings could injure patients, so we became "Mercury Free". Now we are of...more

Mercury Madness

The author is a journalist who writes about her friend Pam Calyton's experience of and recovery from poisoning by the mercury in her fillings.more

Mercury Poisoning from Amalgam Fillings

Mercury, the most toxic metal in amalgam fillings, has a long history of use and an equally long history of known toxic effects. Despite man's efforts to use mercury, its poisonous...more

META-Kinetics: A Synthesis of META-Medicine and Cyberkinetics

The article covers two topics: META-Medicine and Cyberkinetics, then explaining how the two fields can work together to form a comprehensive system for helping people achieve good ...more

Metabolic Typing - Part 1

Body typing focuses on such factors as the personality, appearance and biochemistry of the client rather than on the disease to determine specific body type and make nutritional an...more

Metabolic Typing - Part 2

This article continues the study of metabolic typing introduced in Issue 65, looking in greater detail at the testing procedures used in William Wolcott's system and presenting a c...more

Metabolic Typing: A Highly Individualized, Fine-Tuned Nutritional Guideline

This article looks at why certain diets and nutritional guidelines work on some people and not others. It questions why some people still do not feel fit even when they eat healt...more

Metamorphic Technique - Tool for Inner Change

The Metamorphic Technique was created in the 1960s by Robert St John, a British naturopath and reflexologist, and further developed by Gaston St Pierre, founder of the Metamorphic ...more

Micro-element Therapy and Mineral Imbalances - A Practitioner's Case Studies

As a therapist, I have used Micro-element Therapy (MET) for some 12 years and never cease to be amazed at its effect. This paper aims to give an outline of how it works in practice...more

Midwifery Practice and Complementary Therapy - A policy point of view

Midwifery practitioners in many parts of the country receive requests from pregnant women who are interested in or are already using complementary therapies. The holistic ethos of ...more

Migraine Links

Migraine is a painfully intense, pulsating severe headache, usually affecting one side of the head (hemi crania) and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, visual and digestive dist...more

Migraine Sufferers Top 10 Million in UK – How Can we Manage Migraine Attacks more Effectively?

Just why are more Brits in pain and how can we manage migraine attacks more effectively? Suzie Sawyer, Clinical Nutritionist, provides her Top Tips.more

Migraines and Headache

The article examines the differences between migraines and headaches and states that the most common type of headache is muscular. It gives the causes for headaches as follows: p...more

Milk - Review of its Composition, Ingestion, Dietary and Health Profile

‘Drink your milk, it’s good for you’ was a phrase we heard frequently as children. As CAM Providers over the last few decades, we have been finding that ingestion of milk or dairy ...more

Million Dollar Health Secrets - Standing Meditation

In my twenty-five years as a body therapist I have come across the words "million dollar health secret" three times. The term denotes a simple technique or practice which can easil...more

Mind and Body Health with NLP and EFT

This article focuses on how best to achieve mind and body health. The author believes the best place to start is by looking at our emotional state as the baggage we carry drives ou...more

Mind Mapping for Positive Health

Mind Mapping was devised as a memory tool by Tony Buzan in the '70s and since that time, it has evolved considerably and its applications have extended substantially. A Mind Map® i...more

Mind Matters: The Physics of Consciousness

The essence of time, along with space, holds the pivot to metaphysics. It also finds representation in a host of things that exist in nature. How? With the passing of every event in...more

Mind Over Matter: The Fuzzy Logic of our Inner Self

Mindful meditation is the practice of intentionally focusing your attention on the present-moment – and accepting it without judgment. It relates to open receptivity and awareness o...more

Mind Over Minefield

Complementary medicine can be a minefield. Sometimes a battlefield. Its typical freelance sole proprietor can be as fiercely competitive as any ruthless corporate giant.more

Mind The Gap: From Fashion to Form and Function

Have you ever heard of the thigh gap? I hadn’t before reading an article titled Body language (The Guardian 12.11.13). This ‘essential’ reading is all about identifying anatomical b...more

Mind to Mend your Emotions

Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung articulated that the most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. He also underlined th...more

Mind-Body Medicine Explained

Pain is a message from our body that there is a problem that needs to be sorted out, and if the pain signals are just shut off, the problem can get worse because we haven’t tackled...more

Mind, Medicine and the Placebo Effect

Conventional paradigms in medicine decree that a living creature is nothing more than complex of molecules and electromagnetism which have somehow self-organized themselves into ...more

Mind, Miracles & Meaning Part 1: Manage your Mind to Train your Brain

This is the first of a three part series of articles that describe the process of creating miracles and meaning by challenging your current mindset to think differently. The first i...more

Mind, Miracles and Meaning Part II: Miracles ‘are’ Meaning

A simple sound such as “mmmmm’ can carry so much meaning that we make it up in our minds that it’s actually real. This has us thinking that what we believe is going to happen - actu...more

Mind, Miracles and Meaning Part III: The Answer to Life’s Mysteries

Learning to live your life through meaning that others have bestowed on you is by no means an easy task. What has transpired through your mind are those things that have been ‘post...more

Mind/Body Talk: NLP as 'Software for the Brain' - Chunking

The author expands the subject of chunking, a relatively straightforward concept taught in NLP training, and shows how it can lead to very powerful interventions in the context of ...more

Mind/Body Talk: NLP Talking Therapies - The Brooklyn Program

Many of the basic techniques used in the Brooklyn Program were taken from NLP, therapy tools and strategies developed in the mid-1970's by Richard Bandler and John Grinder who mo...more

Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility

The author reports on the similarity of his work as a social psychologist and that of Ellen Langer, the author of Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Th...more

Mindfulness and Meditation are the Steps to Wellbeing during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has not been kind to anyone. Externally, we are maintaining social distancing norms and stay-at-home orders, but internally, we are absorbed with feel...more

Mindfulness and the Breath

We are usually unaware of our breathing. The authors, a holistic medical doctor and an osteopath, both find that how we breathe is of fundamental importance in maintaining health, ...more

Mindfulness for People Living with Long Term Conditions

As the numbers of people living with a Long Term Condition (LTC) increases worldwide,[1] a new study ‘Starting Where I Am’[2] explores how practising mindfulness can positively affe...more

Mindfulness in Everyday Life – Tools to Provide Calm, Reduce Stress and Help Gain Clarity of Thought

During the pandemic, people are experiencing more stress and anxiety than ever before. This is caused by uncertainty and ever-changing information. It means we are having to adapt a...more

Mindfulness Meditation - Finding True Inner Peace

Many of us spend our whole lives searching for happiness and inner peace. Sadly, some of us never find them. We try to acquire the things that our society tells us will make us happ...more

Mindfulness Meditation for Stress

The stress in our lives is now so great and so insidious that more and more people are making the deliberate decision to understand it better and to bring it under personal control...more

Mindfulness… is it Enough?

Of course, we know about mindfulness, and of course, we believe it’s a good thing… being in touch with what is really happening intuitively seems a benefit…more

Mineral Deficiency and Viral Mutation: Nutritional, Agricultural and Geographic Influences

This article hypothesizes whether many of the devastating influenzas such as avian flu and Beijing flu which originate from China, may lie with mineral levels in the soil.more

Mineral Oil Petroleum Derivative in Beauty Products

This article outlines the dangers of the mineral oils found so ubiquitously in the majority of cosmetic products. Mineral oils (produced from petroleum) are contained in many cosme...more

Miranda's Bowl of Porridge

This regular column by June Butlin illustrates how the author tackled the long-term weight problems experienced by a middle-aged client.more

Mirrored Healing – All About Biofeedback

It is not as bizarre as it appears to be on the surface. The human body and the ubiquitous chip have something in common – a palpable flair for self-regulation. Your electronic gizm...more

Miscarriage A Life and Death Experience

Today, five out of six women miscarry – an alarming statistic which is worth taking seriously. I would like to share my recent, personal experience in order to give support to othe...more

Mistaken Identity - the Consciously Intuitive Heart and Reasoning Faculty of the Brain

Humans like nothing better than a neat summary of ‘what’s going on’. This has become part of our modern empirical paradigm and it consolidates nicely the materialistic standpoint. T...more

Mistletoe - A Holistic, Patient-Centred Adjunctive Therapy

The high incidence of cancer necessitates widespread implementation of supportive therapies that may enhance patients’ otherwise reduced quality of life as they navigate their diagn...more

Mistletoe Therapy

Although Iscador is contraindicated for some types of cancer, the author herself was given Iscador injections prior to cancer surgery. With the additional help of a homeopathic rem...more

Mistletoe Therapy and Hyperthermia for Cancer: Turning Up the Heat

Cancer patients very often seek ways of helping themselves to improve their health and to feel in charge of their treatment process. They perceive the mainstream cancer treatments a...more

Mitigating Migraines - How to Fight Migraines Naturally

Nothing derails your day quicker than a migraine. But once a migraine begins, there may be natural ways to lessen its effects. Here’s everything you need to know about managing a mi...more

Mitochondrial Fatigue or Mitochondrial Sabotage?

Mitochondria are protein-rich small bodies (organelles) with a double membrane and are located in the cytoplasm of all[1] cells (except red blood cells). Mitochondria contain geneti...more

Mitosa Therapy - Energy Healing

John Morely looks at the positive aspects electromagnetic radiation. The electromagnetic radiation we receive from the sun is critical for our survival as it provides energy, but, ...more

Mobile Phones - Proceed with Precaution

The author is the editor of Electromagnetic Hazard & Therapy News Report. In this article he updates the situation regarding possible hazards from mobile phone use.more

Modern Ways To Monitor your Health

Until recently, getting health advice of any kind – whether on our blood pressure, cholesterol or general fitness – nearly always meant a trip to the doctor. But modern technology i...more

Molecular and Clinical Effects of Deuterium Depleted Water in Treatment and Prevention of Cancer

Deuterium-depletion is a new complementary modality in oncotherapy and prevention; the method can be safely applied in addition to conventional treatments and as an extension of tho...more

Molecular Genetic Discoveries: Towards a Better Understanding of Homeopathy

This article explores exciting new developments in molecular biology and the study of the effects of homeopathic remedies on specific genes. Homeopathy has long been questioned ...more

Molecular Hydrogen H2

Health care ought to be cheap and every person should have an easy access of information to sustain their wellbeing. Traditional Western medicine dropped us and the sooner we realiz...more

Mom has a Brain Tumour

This article focuses on the author’s day to day experiences, mental and emotional, with her mother’s condition from the time she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. As...more

Money Magic - Money Metaphysics

The author shares what she has learned about the dynamics of money making, and how to create a positive relationship with money in general. She finds people basically spend to solv...more

Moon Flowers: Accessing the Past

This article focuses on Moon Flowers made under moonlight and explains the differences between the qualities that radiate from the Sun and the Moon. It also looks at why the absorp...more

More on Existential Philosophy and Modern Psychotherapy

In an earlier issue of Positive Health (Issue 40, May 1999) the influence of existentialism on modern psychology was discussed. Here we will continue this discussion, looking at bo...more

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