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IntroductionWHEN YOU THINK OF YOUR BODY, you probably think of the heft and substance of itflesh, muscles, bone. "When you think of illness and disease, you ask, "What is the matter with me?"speaking quite literally in physical terms about the real matter of your body. Your knee or elbow aches. Your throat is sore. Your stomach is upset. Your head is throbbing. It's counterintuitive to imagine your body at more discrete levels, such as at the levels of cells, molecules, or atoms. You are unlikely to hear a person with diabetes complain that "my beta cells are malfunctioning."You get our point; it is almost impossible for us to view our bodies as vast networks of cells and molecules, much less as webs of interacting particles and waves. However, the beautiful mystery of nature is that at our most fundamental level, waves and particles are exactly what we are.In grasping this reality, our problems are ones of perception and scale, for in the course of our everyday lives it appears that particles and waves have no relevance to us. However, as quantum physics reveals, everything is connectedthe world is a vast web of interconnected relationships. We compartmentalize ourselves at our own risk. For example, where once we thought the body was machinelike, regulating itself independently of the mind, research now has proved that thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and attitudes profoundly influence the