anxiety

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disease

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is not experienced unless you're attached to a thought that isn't true for you. It's that simple.

You don't experience anxiety unless you're attached to a thought that isn't true for you. It's that simple.

is not to be let go of, rather, one must meet it with understanding, and then it will let go of him.

i don't let go of concepts, i meet them with understanding. then they let go of me.

is that limitation which, rather than one being able to let go of, is that which, when met with understanding, lets go of one.

I don't let go of concepts I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. (Byron Katie)

is, according to the cultural interpretive model of medicine, not an entity but an explanatory model. That is, culture not only a way of representing disease, but in fact is essential to its constitution as a human reality.

Whereas ecological medical anthropologist have treated disease as part of nature and hence as external to culture, the fundamental claim of the cultural interpretive model, introduced by Arthur Kleinman, is that disease is not an entity but an explanatory model. Disease belongs to culture, in particular to the specialized culture of medicine. And culture is not only a means of representing disease, but is essential to its very constitution as a human reality (B. Good 1994: 53).

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