Chapter 3 Variability: (Counter Clockwise)

 

People aren't that observant although we think we are

What we have learned to look for in a situation is mostly what we see.

Noticing variability is the key to mindfulness.

There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to be where we want to be.

People have a tendency to see what is and to assume that it is what must be.

Negative results mean only that we have no evidence for a hypothesis, not against it.

Biofeedback

All diseases and the symptoms they present vary to some degree from day to day and minute to minute

One reason that people see depression as a constant condition is that we don't check ourselves when we are content

First, although we recognize on the some level that the world is constantly changing we are oblivious to the fact that we constantly hold it still.

Which would lead us to ask are we demented when we have no symptoms?

We are not our disorders and we should not be defined as constrained by them My father remembered a great number of things throughout the day. yet he focused upon the fact that he forgot a few.

Every day we learn that something that we accepted as true is false.

We can't know everything about our health but we can develop a mindful understanding of health though developing an appreciation of how medical knowledge is developed and applied.

averages can only tell you about what people tend to report but they do not tell you about the person

medicine like all domains of study should be regarded not as collection of answers by as a way of asking questions 

those with a pessimistic style experienced poorer health after between forty five and sixty

those who hold optimistic belief actually pay greater attention to their recovery process and actually anticipate complications

regression to the mean