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Their wordsContemporary strategies for health and wellbeing fail our biological needs by not acknowledging that feelings of safety emerge from inside the body.
Our reading
Feelings of safety have a measurable physiological basis and can be studied as an objective science.
Their wordsAcknowledging that feelings of safety are an emergent property of autonomic state would shift investigations of feelings of safety from a subjective to an objective science.
Their wordsAfter reflecting on this question, I arrived at a concise and intuitive principle that humans, as social mammals, are on an enduring lifelong quest to feel safe.
Their wordsThe need to feel safe is functionally our body speaking through our autonomic nervous system - influencing our mental and physical health, social relationships, cognitive processes, behavioral repertoire
Our reading
Feeling safe is not the same as being safe: removing threat does not by itself produce the feeling.
Their wordsFeelings of safety are not equivalent to an objective measurement of safety, which may pragmatically be defined as the removal of threat.
Their wordsThis dualism is still prevalent in current medical practices, especially when illness cannot be linked to a specific organ dysfunction.
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