The Mind-Body Connection: The Unconscious Link Between Health and Disease
“The mind keeps the score (+/-), the body tells the story”
Decoding the Feedback of Illness and Disease for Health, Wellness & Vitality
The truth has long rested in the hands of the masters, not the masses. Across cultures and centuries, polymaths, mystics, healers, and yogis have spoken of the mind, body, and soul as a harmonious union, a guide toward deeper levels of awareness, evolution, and a sense of purpose. This timeless wisdom reveals a profound truth: how you perceive reality directly shapes your physical and mental health. Illness and disease are often viewed negatively, but they are simply your body’s way of communicating, indicating that you may be out of touch in interpreting the feedback. Your body signals how your thoughts, perceptions, and actions are guiding you to live your unique path and purpose. There is a reason for the widespread sickness, disease, and stress in the world—people often live more in accordance with what they think they should do, rather than following their inner guidance and living a purpose-built life where you’re naturally most resilient.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This ancient wisdom is beautifully captured in the Egyptian myth of Thoth, the god of wisdom, who presided over the weighing of the heart in the afterlife. According to the myth, the heart of the deceased was placed on one side of a scale, while a feather, symbolizing truth and balance, was placed on the other. If the heart was lighter than the feather (a life lived with love and gratitude), it signified a life in balance and harmony (+/-). If it was heavier, it revealed a soul burdened by misalignments, unexamined beliefs, and unresolved inner conflicts (such as pride, shame, guilt, anger, infatuations, and resentments, of self and others). This symbolism highlights the power of our perception and how the guidance we receive from within, through our bodies and hearts, can reveal whether we are living in alignment with our purpose. Nothing is random, and your body is just telling your story.
In this essay, we’ll explore how your mind seeks balance and objectivity while your body narrates its story through sensations and symptoms. By living teleologically—driven by purpose and guided by the end in mind, you can decode these signals as part of a meaningful dialogue, rather than random occurrences. My aim isn’t to just provide you with answers but to equip you with the tools to ask more quality and deeper questions. These questions will help you interpret your body’s feedback and uncover the intimate connection between your perceptions and how you're living life.
"In the balance of the mind lies the balance of the body, and in the harmony of the body lies the harmony of the mind."
- Imhotep
Egyptian scholar, priest, architect, & physician 27th century BCE
Importance of Self-Reflection & Self-Mastery
If you don't empower yourself, in all areas of your life, you are exposing yourself to the risk of becoming disempowered and at the mercy of others, knowledge, expertise, wealth, status, authority and influence. Your body keeps the score, it’s a barometer of your overall well being and vitality, leaving it in the hands of others, rather than having that relationship and feedback in your own control for preventative lifestyle choice isn’t wisdom (Not acute traumatic injuries). Control can scare people, as most individuals have become so complacent, desentized to their own intuition and disempowered to the outside world that many aren't fit to lead themselves, let alone other people. So they'll delegate health conditions and end of life care to outside authorities. Leaving what they inject, cut, burn, remove from their bodies to others.
Western medicine, allopathic medicine serves its purpose, otherwise it would cease to exist. The point is to utilize it with proactive care and break the illusions being sold of health without disease. An allopathic model is designed to treat trauma, and serves its purpose and it doesn't address the deeper reasoning and understanding for what caused the symptoms, nor is meant to. That would just further overload and freeze the system up and compound the lack of mental space to create and innovate. That's why the answers rest with you to find out why you're attracting certain conditions, and realize the power of your perceptions contributed to the issue and they can also contribute to resolving them.
When one is out of tune, we get the feedback, many individuals have forgotten how to listen and hear the message that the body has been given them. Their lack of connection with nature, and the natural elements is fewer and far between as individuals live closer and closer together in cities and in a digital world.
Bringing Back a Polymathic Perspective
The brain is a pattern recognition machine, and that’s why we celebrate Leonardo da Vinci as one of the greatest polymaths. We revere his work, his thinking, and his diagrams of the human body as masterpieces of human curiosity in both art and science, embodying the mysteries of symmetry and proportion within the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Sequence, the elements of sacred geometry, and the harmony of nature. The Vitruvian Man embodies this philosophy, showing the human body as a vessel of cosmic order and an embodiment of universal harmony. The Vitruvian Man is placed within both a circle and a square, symbols of the infinite and the finite. The golden ratio manifests in the proportional distance among the limbs, all approximating this divine proportion.
Leonardo’s painting of the Mona Lisa, has been valued as one of the most valuable paintings in the world. Perhaps it’s time to value why and how he thought as he did? He named the Vitruvian Man after Vitruvius, who is considered the greatest architect in history. He famously stated that an architect cannot be an architect unless he studies medicine, economics, history, philosophy, mathematics, and nature; only then, with that polymathic view, can he bring perspective and be a true architect.
Without a broad perspective that creates awareness and understanding, the common sense of the collective is diluted to a level where we’ve normalize the obscene, and facts such as that 42% of all adults in the U.S. are considered obese, we don’t bat an eyelash. And the enemy of great is good, because the expectations are set so low for what vitality really is.
Without a well rounded perspective, you see patterns and where people focus wide in their careers and create narrow views in life. Where to make financial gains and an impact is wise, focus narrowly and niche in business, and adopt broad polymathic views in our lives. When you wonder how things are operating the way they are, you realize quickly that people are half awake at night and half asleep during the day not seeing the thoughts and insomnia are the feedback that’s not interrupted. Subduing and numbing the mind to keep playing a game of follow the follower, and further leading them off course to decode the message of the body.
The Feedback Systems
It’s all feedback. And here’s the catch: you can’t truly understand what you don’t know—or perhaps more accurately, what you refuse to see. We often get stuck in a one-sided view of life, appreciating only the parts that align with our values, priorities, and agendas. We gravitate toward the “positive” or “nice” sides of people and experiences, dismissing the rest as inconvenient or unworthy of our attention.
But the feedback you’re receiving is constantly nudging you to take in the whole picture, not just the flattering half. It’s calling you to recognize both support and challenge, both light and shadow. Ignoring this reality means you’re preconditioning yourself to appreciate only fragments of your life—and in doing so, you invite a cascade of feedback in the form of shame or exaggerated pride. Shame when you fall short of your ideal, and pride to artificially puff yourself up.
When someone else acts in a way that challenges your expectations or values, that too is feedback. Life is persistently giving you opportunities to love its entirety—not just the utopian ideals, but the gritty, unpolished moments that demand real growth. Even the most devastating experiences are feedback, ensuring you grasp the full, interconnected overview of life.
The truth is, it’s not that you’re incapable of understanding; it’s that the feedback often gets tangled in layers of misinterpretation. You’ve inherited cultural beliefs, societal “truths,” and moral codes that aren’t your own. In adopting them, you lose sight of the timeless, universal principles that remain true across all eras.
So let’s start peeling back those layers. The feedback you’re receiving is speaking to you across all seven areas of life—health, relationships, wealth, vocation, spirituality, social influence, and mental well-being. For now, let’s focus on just a thin slice: the feedback embedded in your health. If we can begin to unravel the signals your body is sending, we might unlock a deeper understanding of how life is guiding you toward balance, wisdom, and wholeness.
Unescapable Feedback Systems:
Mind (Psychology)
Body (Physiology)
People (Sociology)
Universal Law (True Theology)
Feedback is the thread that weaves together the tapestry of life. Whether it’s a whisper from your intuition, the ache in your body, the sting of criticism, or the larger dance of the universe, feedback is life’s way of guiding you toward equilibrium. But to listen, we need to understand how this feedback operates across four key dimensions: The Mind (Psychology), The Body (Physiology), People—family, friends, colleagues, and strangers (Sociology), and the Universe (The truest form of Theology, beyond religions, deities, and the morals of man, created by humans to personify the divine nature). Each system is interconnected, creating a symphony of signals that demand our attention.
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Mind (Psychology): The Inner Compass
"The mind is the master of the body, and the body is the servant of the mind."
– Amar Virk
The mind is a psychostat, a self-regulating mechanism akin to a thermostat, keeping your thoughts and emotions in balance. Your intuition operates as the voice of the unconscious, surfacing when your conscious mind drifts out of alignment. Feelings of anxiety, depression, or elation are not arbitrary; they are signals—feedback guiding you to uncover distortions in your perceptions.
Albert Einstein once stated, "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours." That relativity of experience reflects the mind’s incredible power to shape our reality. When your thoughts are skewed toward exaggerated highs or lows, the feedback system works to restore balance, urging you to see life’s simultaneous contrasts rather than sequential highs and lows.
Body (Physiology): The Wisdom of Symptoms
"The body tells the story; the mind keeps the score." – Amar Virk
Your body is a living feedback mechanism. Symptoms—aches, pains, fatigue—are not enemies to be silenced but messengers to be understood. They reveal the interplay between your internal environment (mindset, beliefs) and external conditions.
The concept of physiological feedback dates back to ancient Greek thinkers like Aristotle and Galen, but it was Claude Bernard who introduced the idea of the milieu intérieur, or internal environment. Walter Cannon later expanded on this with the principle of homeostasis, explaining how negative feedback loops maintain physiological equilibrium. What neither emphasized, however, was the psychological component—how your perceptions and thoughts directly impact your cellular health.
In a world obsessed with quick fixes, we’ve divorced health from disease, ignoring that symptoms are part of the healing process. True health emerges when cause and effect are reconciled in the mind and body, not through suppression but through understanding. Don’t just normalize the feedback and pass it off; do everything you can to understand it. It’s your soul communing with you, attuning you so you can dance to your own song. Don’t let the music die inside you.
People: Family, Friends, Colleagues, and “Random Strangers” (Sociology): The Mirror of Relationships
"Criticism and praise are both equally a gift and a curse, depending on how you perceive them—they reveal the judgments you carry within." – Amar Virk
Every interaction with others is a reflection of your inner world. The feedback of those around you and interactions with strangers isn’t random! People feedback is auditory, kinesthetic, and more, operating externally through means of support and challenge, praise and criticism. Praise inflates your sense of self, while criticism deflates it—both serve to bring you back to center, like homeostasis. The opinions of others are often external projections, helping you see blind spots and get objective in your self-perception.
Outside feedback forces you to confront the parts of yourself you’ve disowned. Often, it’s the most painful and difficult to understand and comprehend. This leads people to run stories in their minds for years, decades, and even lifetimes. Relationships are mirrors, showing you what you’re suppressing or exaggerating. They remind you that peace without conflict or harmony without discord is an illusion.
The Universe (True Theology): The Dance of Duality
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Theology’s feedback operates on the grandest scale. The universe uses duality—joy and sorrow, gain and loss, life and death—to guide you toward wisdom. Tragedy humbles you when you’ve inflated your sense of control; comedy lifts you when despair threatens to overwhelm.
Religious wars fought in the name of heaven deny the reality of hell’s existence. These extremes are feedback systems distorted by human idealism. True spirituality recognizes the wholeness of existence, embracing both light and shadow.
When causes and effects align in space and time, you experience universal harmony. Otherwise, your distorted perceptions create imbalances that manifest as crises—existential, physical, or relational. Symptoms are not punishments but guides, urging you to decode the feedback and see the wholeness of life.
A Unified Feedback System
Health is not the absence of disease; it is the integration of body, mind, and spirit in harmony. Feedback is life’s way of recalibrating you when you stray too far into fantasy or fear. Every symptom, criticism, or tragedy is a teacher, nudging you toward self-awareness and wholeness.
Living by priority—aligned with your core values—allows you to interpret feedback with clarity. It transforms life’s challenges into stepping stones, turning perceived chaos into your personal symphony of growth, which only you can hear and understand. The question is not whether feedback exists but whether you are listening. As this is a message delivered by your soul to keep you on track and authentic to your truest nature.
The Role of The Autonomic Nervous System
The autonomic nervous system governs the balance between the sympathetic (fight-or-flight) and parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) states. This balance directly influences physical and emotional well-being. Perceptions, which are filtered through an individual's values and priorities, impact how the body is regulated, shifting it toward stress (sympathetic dominance) or calm (parasympathetic dominance). Chronic imbalances can often be rooted in distorted perceptions, manifesting as physiological symptoms, even in utero during conception, depending on external conditions. By balancing perceptions, where cause equals effect in the conscious and subconscious mind, healing can occur. Otherwise, medical science has no cure for autonomic nervous system conditions, as it’s governed automatically by a greater power and source. This leads many individuals to the path that the cure is from within—mind, body, and soul. Living in accordance with one’s personal priorities and values strengthens the nervous system because there is more resolve and long-term focus during moments of challenge, leading to greater equilibrium, promoting overall health, vitality, and well-being. A purpose-built life and career play a significant role in the overall governance of your mind, body, and soul's calling.
How Hormones Are Impacted by Your Perceptions
Hormonal systems stabilize the body, optimizing both physical and emotional resilience. These hormonal responses are deeply connected to how you perceive the events that happen in life. The autonomic nervous system acts like your internal operating system, and how you experience these events depends on your perspective—whether you approach them with a balanced outlook or react with a one-sided stress response. The sooner you can recognize both sides of an experience and bring your mind into balance, the better your body can do what it's designed to do.
Key hormones and the body's chemical responses are intricately linked to psychological states, and they dynamically respond to your emotional and mental states. Here’s how:
Cortisol: This hormone rises with stress or perceived danger, driving the fight-or-flight response. However, chronic elevation can lead to inflammation and illness. Besides acute stress, cortisol regulates metabolism, immune responses, and circadian rhythms. Misaligned perceptions—such as constant worry or fear, can keep cortisol levels elevated, leading to weight gain, sleep disorders, and immune suppression.
Norepinephrine: This hormone prepares the body for immediate action, signaling urgency or alertness.
Dopamine: Known as the "reward hormone," dopamine surges when you achieve goals, aligning actions with values.
Testosterone: Linked to assertiveness, confidence, and goal achievement. Rises with challenge and competition. Balanced by living a life aligned with values and by priority.
Estrogen: Tied to empathy, nurturing, and relationships. Rises with safety and support, check-in if there is over support.
Oxytocin: Often called the “bonding hormone,” oxytocin is released during moments of trust, connection, and intimacy (e.g., childbirth, breastfeeding, or deep emotional relationships). Positive perceptions of safety and support amplify oxytocin production, fostering stronger social bonds. Conversely, feelings of betrayal or isolation suppress oxytocin, leading to disconnection.
Serotonin: This hormone regulates mood, appetite, and sleep. Perceptions of accomplishment, gratitude, and self-worth elevate serotonin, promoting a sense of calm and satisfaction. Low serotonin is often tied to negative self-perceptions, doubt, or feelings of inadequacy, which can lead to depression or anxiety.
Endorphins: These natural painkillers surge during physical activity, laughter, or moments of exhilaration. They’re associated with overcoming challenges. Aligning your actions with values can promote endorphin release, buffering against pain and stress.
Adrenaline (Epinephrine): Triggered by high-stakes moments or perceived threats, adrenaline sharpens focus, increases energy, and mobilizes resources for immediate action. Chronic misperceptions of danger or stress, however, can deplete adrenal reserves, leading to fatigue and burnout.
Melatonin: Perceptions of safety and calmness during the evening hours promote melatonin production, encouraging restful sleep. Excessive screen time or hyperactive mental states inhibit melatonin, disrupting the body's natural recovery cycle.
Insulin: Stress and distorted perceptions can disrupt insulin regulation, linking emotional states to blood sugar imbalances and metabolic issues. Grounded perceptions and gratitude can help stabilize insulin responses, supporting metabolic health.
Growth Hormone: Essential for cell repair, growth hormone peaks during restful sleep and declines with prolonged stress or negative self-perceptions. A balanced view of life enhances growth hormone release, promoting longevity and resilience.
Thyroid: The thyroid responds to perceptions of vitality and purpose. Chronic stress suppresses its function, impacting energy, metabolism, and emotional stability. Optimized perceptions can enhance thyroid output, boosting vitality and mental clarity.
Hormonal Balance: Balance the Mind, Balance the Body
Managing your perceptions—seeing life’s dualities and aligning your actions with priorities—determines whether hormones support health or contribute to disease. Hormonal feedback is always available, guiding you to where you stand. When individuals see the duality in life—recognizing that every challenge holds an opportunity, and every pain has a purpose—hormones naturally recalibrate toward balance.
However, misperceptions, such as viewing events as purely negative or overly positive, create hormonal chaos, leading to physical and emotional instability. The challenge is that we live in a world that seeks positivity, religions that promote heaven, and healthcare that focuses on health, but without understanding the true purpose of disease.
By embracing gratitude, balancing your perceptions, and living in alignment with your personal values, you can create an environment where your hormones work in harmony. This fosters greater resilience, vitality, and well-being. The mind plays a significant role in how you become entangled with circumstances. People often want to pick and choose when things are random and good, but that narrow perspective will keep the body stressed, continuously giving you feedback.
A Natural Evolutionary Response: Cancer
Cancer is a complex biological response shaped by mental, emotional, environmental, and physiological imbalances. It can be seen as the body's last-ditch effort to restore equilibrium and guide us toward love when chronic misalignments remain unresolved. Prolonged stress disrupts cellular regulation, and unresolved emotional conflicts—such as shame, guilt, resentment, or grief—can manifest in the body, weakening the immune system and allowing abnormal cells to proliferate. Cancer serves a purpose—otherwise, it would go extinct. This truth can be difficult for some to accept, particularly if it’s epigenetic. However, just as the body is an ecosystem, so are the family and social dynamics we live in. Nothing is missing, and nothing is separate.
One of the most underutilized methods of healing involves polymathic thinking, which requires a broad mindset to restore balance by shifting perceptions, dissolving judgments, and aligning actions with personal priorities and values. Extreme emotional polarities—viewing life events as either all bad or all good—create internal conflict. Cancer can be seen as a final attempt to remind individuals to express love and gratitude for life, and for all that has happened within it. However, many remain trapped in rigid thinking, holding on to black-and-white perceptions, and miss the opportunity for deeper healing.
Embracing life’s duality and addressing subconscious fears leads to greater mental and emotional equilibrium, which supports the body’s natural healing mechanisms and calms the nervous system. Taking conditions of one-sided emotions off love and embracing an unconditional perspective—where things are both-and—helps us experience the true power of love and gratitude. This opens the way for profound healing and a more authentic, purposeful life to emerge.
The Dilution of Modern Medicine
The etymology of doctor means "learned," but the education system is so diluted we're living in a time where we have the most educated dumb people. Some Doctors themselves at times seem more like pharmaceutical sales reps trying to meet quotas, rather than healers, but this isn’t always the case. But when was the last time you heard someone refer to a medical doctor as a healer or philosopher?
Hippocrates famously said, "It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." This highlights the need to look beyond symptoms and consider the psychosomatic and environmental factors that shape our health, wealth, and well-being throughout life. I’m curious when I meet individuals if they’ve gone after creating a purpose-built life + calling. However, the underlying connection between mind and body is often overlooked, especially when healthcare becomes more about treating symptoms than understanding their causes. We treat the part, not the ecosystem.
The healing arts is being left to the polymaths, who understand the power of economics, finances, family dynamics, power of pursuing a purpose, the body, can clearly articulate and objective connect and communicate a message, comprehend the power of the mind and how it works, have a broad perspective and love of wisdom, and know the power of living by their priorities and what they place a value and worth on as a calling in life. That the calling is part of their spiritual path. (These are the 7 areas of life I talk about).
“The physician is only nature's assistant… The best physician is also a philosopher, understanding the intricate relationship between the mind and body." ~ Galen
The System Isn’t Broken; It Requires a Greater Purpose
Purpose comes from a way of living by our intrinsic values and top priorities. Where we have resolve, resilience and objectivity. It comes from being driven by a mission where you naturally bring as much order and structure regardless of the consequences. You may be one of the individuals who choose an industry, for status, authority, a paycheck, or for security - many doctors are no different. The game changers realize something quickly or they grow into field of medicine with a value on health, healing, philosophy, spirituality and bringing vitality to the body, on top of the value of being compensated financially for their talents. It’s a pandemic of purpose, or lack there of infecting and burning out society, and doctors aren't immune either.
When it comes to a Purpose-Built Life + Business, there is an underlying component to human nature here, as whatever we are innately dedicated to, we are the most adaptable, resilient and have the greatest persistence, while bring the most amount of innovation, change and certainty of purpose. In this zone we're consciously and progressively inspired to face challenging problems as we're on a mission, not trying to hit an arbitrary goal, that's why when you do meaningful work you are often left with more vitality in your body and mind and seek to tackle new frontiers. Right now the burnout rate for medical professionals keeps rising higher and higher, year over year. It's not about blame and finger pointing, it's about self accountability to master your own mind and body, as practitioners are also individuals expanding at their own rate of awareness. The solution rests with you, for you to empower yourself, to equip yourself with greater tools, resources, individuals, modalities and questions that can transform the direction of your life.
You have control over your own mindset (what you perceive), actions (what you plan, priorities and executive upon) and what you choose (The decisions you make and strategies behind them). So choose wisely who you delegate your authority to and get clear on what you're actually optimizing for. If you're not clear, others will step in to sway your opinion and they don’t always have your best decision in mind even if they are legal fiduciaries because human nature and biases exist whether you like it or not. So if you think it’s easier and cheaper to play a game of followers, think twice. To put it into perspective the top 10 pharmacology companies spend more money on marketing than on research, at a ratio of 19:1 dollars. The United States is one of only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs on television. Contributing to them being #1 in Obesity, #1 Health care expenditures, #1 personal debt resulting in an abysmal rating of number 46th in terms of life expectancy. This is likely to go over the average person’s heads because the US is also 125th out of 197 in literacy rates among the countries of the world.
Side Note: The Stock Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act requires U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives to publicly file and disclose any financial transaction within 45 days of its occurrence: During the COVID-19 pandemic, some U.S. lawmakers and officials made substantial gains through personal investments in pharmaceutical companies involved in vaccine and therapeutic production. Public disclosures revealed that officials held stocks in companies like Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, which saw significant value increases as mandatory COVID-19 products were developed and distributed. Concerns about potential conflicts of interest arose, prompting for stronger regulations on financial disclosures and stock trades by public officials, especially in sectors directly impacted by government policy. Over 100 of the 535 voting members of congress have a networth over a deca-million to multiple centa-millions. Average term of a congressman in the senate and house are both about a decade with an average salary of $174,000.
“The operation was a success, but the patient died”
The Self-Preservation of The Status Quo
It takes individuals with transformative missions to bring about collective transformation. As more often than not an entity will not self-annihilate or displace itself, for another. So the current system and model is designed to keep you ignorant, sick and disempowered. This is why the pen is as mighty as the sword, educated consumers vote with their dollars. The challenge we faced in bringing health and healing back in the hands of the individuals, is that society is being trained for more and more immediate gratification and dopamine driven activities. This doesn’t mean the system is broken, it’s working universally how it’s meant to. There is both order and chaos allowing for new opportunities to birthed. So don’t expect something to come and change things be the change you want to see. It won't shift unless you do, the truth will just fall into the hands of the seekers, doers and masters, not the masses. I don’t write this for you to play victim but rather understand how transformation occurs. Buckminster Fuller articulated elegantly, “You never change something by fighting the existing reality... To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Right now, healthcare is a profitability center that controls institutional thinking, training and infrastructure so it seems like it's too big to fail until it does, kind of like financial crashes. So the solution is results focused work addressing the underlying factors of the feedback your mind and body are giving you. Just as many of the fortune 500 companies have been displaced, you can't stop an idea whose time has come. And the most beautiful strategy is to disrupt yourself so others don't to.Whether you're a practitioner or looking for healing solutions. Quality questions allow you to live a quality life.
Most people want the results but don't want to put in the work. The metamorphosis required for transformation seems too vast, too costly, and too overwhelming. But guess what you're already paying the consequences and you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Either way you're going to pay and it's going to be hard. Doing nothing is hard, and working through change is hard. So to be the change you want to see, start with the man in the mirror, as your symptoms are bad, they are feedback. We've just forgotten how to interpret them ourselves.
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." ~ Rumi (Amar: Than you realize there was nothing to change +/-, and everything is love +/- and it was just an illusion and misperception of not seeing the unseen)
The greatest risk in times of difficulty is not the challenges we face, but taking action with yesterday's logic. Andy Warhol famously stated, “If it's popular it's not art.” Institutional knowledge is often years if not decades behind the innovators, and often hidden in plane sight for centuries. The father of Business Management, Peter Drucker similarly stated, "When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course." So if your serious about something, care for something, you study it! You understand it, and you discuss all aspects of it, and you could very easily and articulately even argue the other side against your own opinion. Health empowerment, like entrepreneurship, financial independence and spirituality are self initiated journeys.
Reflective Awareness
To know yourself and live authentically in a world that pressures conformity is one of the highest expressions of creativity and life. Judgments arise when we fail to love aspects of ourselves, attracting external feedback that reveals missing pieces of awareness. This feedback is an opportunity to reconcile chaos and uncertainty by understanding life’s inherent order and divine intelligence.
Through reflective awareness, we piece together hidden order, realizing that nothing was ever missing. Each judgment holds the potential for growth, and every stressful event—a masked blessing—pushes us to the next sphere of consciousness. These paradigm shifts guide us to a timeless mind and ageless body, unifying love and awareness.
"As above, so below, the outside world is a reflection of the inside world."
Summary
“When the electron vibrates, the universe shakes.”
The greatest cure for the body is living a purpose-built life that is in alignment with life’s divine design. Prevention, through awareness and priority-based action, surpasses any treatment. As Paul Dirac said, “It’s not that we know so much, but that we know so much that isn’t so.” The journey to health is about uncovering the unseen blessings in every crisis and mastering life’s feedback system to achieve greater authenticity and fulfillment.
Living by Dharma—aligned with our priorities and values—is evolutionary, propelling us forward with purpose. In contrast, living by Karma keeps us revolving through crises until we integrate lessons of love and balance (+/-), reliving scenarios over and over until we understand their meaning. You can’t change yesterday, but having the wisdom to face the present is the greatest and most powerful gift.
By embracing life as it is and acting on priorities, we transcend aging’s psychological effects. Loving others fully is an extension of knowing and loving ourselves. To see the perfection in all circumstances is to unlock gratitude and evolve beyond reactive cycles. Put the power back in your hands by balancing perceptions, taking prioritized action, and living strategically according to what’s most meaningful and purposeful to you. And of course, seeking holistic and medical professionals when required and proactively, when applicable.
The magnificence of life’s design eliminates the possibility of randomness; instead, every crisis carries a hidden blessing and an unconscious motive. True health lies in recognizing this interconnectedness and adapting accordingly. You have the power to take charge of your health, embrace life’s lessons, and create a more vibrant, purposeful existence. The feedback is your greatest gift, let’s just make sure you do something about it.
Amar
Amar Virk
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