Health / Balance

“What does a perfectly functioning system look and feel like?”

What a perfectly functioning system looks like — planetary or human. Homeostasis, calm, clarity. The benchmark against which I measure every disturbance.

The state of homeostasis: the benchmark, the optimal functioning of living systems. At the planetary level — a stable climate and ecosystems in balance; at the human level — physical and mental health, calm, clarity. The gold standard against which we measure every disturbance.

Fields: Medicine, mental health, deep ecology, the neuroscience of well-being, Stoicism, Buddhism