The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.
Interpretation
The current U.S. healthcare system is ineffective and unsustainable, leading to poor life expectancy outcomes.
In this quote, Jon Kabat-Zinn highlights the failures of the U.S. healthcare system, characterized by a reactive approach that focuses on fixing problems after they arise rather than preventing them. He points out that this model not only leads to financial burdens on the nation and its citizens but also results in a workforce overwhelmed and exhausted by the system's inefficiencies, ultimately contributing to a disappointing ranking in global life expectancy.
In practice
This quote can be used in a healthcare conference to emphasize the need for reform.
Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.
We will not solve the addiction problem in America if we don't address social connection.
Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.
Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?
Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
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