Quote of the Week #130

[Boris]

...Consider the effects of not paying attention to what our bodies and minds are constantly telling us. For long stretches of time, of course, especially if we are fairly healthy to begin with, we can get away with not paying attention to anything. Or at least it seems that way on the surface. But if various signs and symptoms, even subtle ones, are ignored, left unattended for too long, and if the condition you find yourself in is too much of a burden on the body or the mind, this dis-attention can lead to dis-connection, the atrophying or disruption of specific pathways whose finely tuned integrity is necessary to maintain the dynamic processes that underlie health. This dis-connection can in turn lead to dis-regulation, where things actually start to go wrong, swing grossly away from the natural homeostatic balance. Dis-regulation in turn can lead to outright dis-order on the cellular, tissue, organ, and systems level, a breakdown into disregulated, chaotic processes. This dis-order in turn leads to or manifests as outright disease, or put otherwise, to dis-ease.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn ("Coming To Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and The World Through Mindfulness", p. 120)

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