HEALTH AND WELLBEING.

The Limitations of Information.

We live in a world abundant in information. Such knowledge can enrich, expanding our understandings and perspectives, creating an sense of empowerment and equality.

However this type of intellectual knowledge appeals to mostly our thinking mind, an important yet not encompassing aspect of our health or indeed our lived experiences.

Our health is an intertwining between mind and body-(and in the broader spectrum between each other and our environment)- the body being the foundation on which the thinking mind and our relationships develop.

Thoughts evolve from sensation.Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman Psychologist in his book Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow alludes to this, “human beings are perceptive rather than rational”.

Thus within the context of health and wellbeing and perhaps in the greater sphere of living, information appeals mostly our thinking mind, not taking into account, unison of body and mind- that our bodies largely shape and have shaped our experiences, that each individual is unique in their history, understanding and feeling.

Information that engages the intellect only has limitations. While knowledge can be a valuable resource, what maybe even more so is- knowing, where information is transformed into feeling becoming context or emerges from the sensory information we already gather. Physician and Author Gabor Mate writes“ prescriptions assume that something needs to be fixed, transformation brings forth the healing- the coming to integrity of something that is already there, while advise and prescriptions maybe useful what is even more valuable to us is insight into ourselves and our minds and bodies”.

8. Jan. 2026.

H Couts

References and Further Reading.

Kahneman, D. 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin Books, London

Mate Gabor, 2019, When the Body Says No, The Cost of Hidden Stress. Scribe publications Melbourne.