TOPIC: Health & Self-Awareness

What’s deemed as ‘Healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’ is extremely dependent on cultural and personal ideals; for example western versus eastern medicine or even alternative and holistic methods. In a world that puts so much attention on pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, are we losing touch with the mental to bodily connection that allows us to decipher what we need? How much of health is dependent on knowing our inner selves? Can self-awareness heal us? What about when what we feel and what science says are not in agreement? Who or what should we listen to? Think about the instances in your life when you felt unhealthy or healthy. What brought you there? How did you operate?

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Last discussion on “Expectations”  we defined the difference between goals and expectations where a goal is the process that leads us to a certain outcome, while expectations is the outcome itself. We spoke about how putting pressure on the expectation over the goal can lead to suffering through anxiety or depression. Interestingly, we also touched on the effects of colonialism and culture as being the underlying factor for why we generally seek outcomes, and why arriving at the outcome can be so validating. For example in the conditional: “to be healthy, I should eat healthy” versus “I should eat healthy, to be healthy”. We also outlined he difference between internal expectations and external expectations, and the idea that they can be unhealthy if they don’t match reality or our needs.

*OPTIONAL READS*

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonisweet/2021/12/28/10-wellness-trends-you-have-to-try-in-2021/?sh=1b14b956ed8a

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068720/

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2019/08/30/473911/big-pharma-reaps-profits-hurting-everyday-americans/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/opinion/covid-vaccine-big-pharma.html

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