One of the most indicators of health is having a balanced life where individuals are nurtured and encouraged to thrive. The evolution of human nature, the joy of existence, and the faithful belonging to their community. Sounds cool, is it right? With all the advanced in human technologies and manufacturers, the human soul got lost in between. More focus on external behaviors and construals, encouraging the in-group approval to fit, and having a false sense of belonging which promotes false self. Judging individuals on how they are better communicators, take upon challenges, and give less feedback on the human themselves, neglecting the inner traits of behaviors, including resilience, authenticity, calmness, purpose, mindfulness, self-fulfillment, and creativity. So, you impress your group with a good-looking external look, materialistic accumulation, competitive spirit, and restless nights of conflicting thoughts, actions, and attitudes. Impressive. Can you relate? I can't deny each individual's hard work to reach the status they believe will bring them more outside approval and admiration. Not aware of how much loss occurs along the way for the internal traits of behavior. Mostly 90% of high achievers fall into their false selves and identity.
We try to hide and mask the actual deep needs for being human. Lacking safety to be you, express your voice without being judged or putting the label on you. Labeling became the mental shortcut to categorize humans, communities, cultures, and socioeconomic status to pre-designed interaction fall into this category. Therefore, stereotyping becomes the social norm. Ignoring the pure nature of living is interchangeable. To keep social control and the dominance of specific groups over others, neglecting that human evolution didn't happen in void or vacuum spaces. "I" Vs "You," "Us" Vs. "Them," "Ours," vs. "Theirs," the segregation mentality is driven by a scarcity mentality. Everything will fall apart if I don't have control over the other. A scarcity mindset leads to inner-group conflict and mental isolation, the co-factor for disease manifestation and health decline.
The inner-group conflict is a mental state, so it is hard to see conditions like hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, cancer, or viral or bacterial infections. However, the inner-group conflict mental state is the cause of hypertension, cancer, or metabolic syndrome. It shapes most risk factors besides family medical history, genetic predisposition, mutation, and environmental toxins. A simple equation scarcity mindset triggers negative thinking, changes the stress and immune response, alteration in gene expression, and alters cell function, causing hemostatic imbalances on multiple systematic organs within the human ecological matrix.
An unaddressed marker of health is "Silence." adhering to the familiar motto, "Silence is golden," without any deep explanation when silence is golden. It is a vague motto that allows us to crossover the human authentic- self, healthy boundaries, being seen or heard, being validated, and being acknowledged as a human living within a complex ecological matrix in bidirectional influence. So, humans are not a passive or negative factor in the processes and outcomes. They're co-partners in the thinking, activities, remembering, and action-taking that will deliver specific outcomes. Societies are designed in a hierarchal order. Therefore, the bottom of the hierarchy must remain silent to fit in and be approved. However, with grassroots movements, that is only the case in some situations. Socioeconomic powers shift the needle in group dynamics. Yet, some still play the rule of "Silence is golden," and the price is their health, contributing to the long history of oppression, segregation, and social injustice.
Quick reality check:
- are you acknowledged in your community as a human acting from bidirectional biological, social, environmental, and behavioral systems?
- Do you have a safe space to express your voice without being judged and labeled?
-Do you have your social-emotional boundaries?
- Do your beliefs, values, and mind respected, and is there a fine line between your personal identity and your job or work job description? There is a huge dilemma when your personality is judged and is the primary parameter for your career development and growth. That is where bias and discrimination are taking place, leading to diseases. It is proven by research that discrimination and racism among minorities are the root cause of chronic illness and death.
- Do you have the room to put your skills, gifts, and talents into practice, or are you put in a box facing opposition to express your mind?
- Does your work-life balance add to your stress and make you feel alone?
-Do you understand the red flag of toxic relationships include gaslighting, winner-loser dynamics, poor reviews, treating specific people with disrespect, high turnover, termination, resignation, no one on the same page, win it-at-any-cost mentality, competitiveness, cutting corners, shady, all money dollar over anything else, excessive gossip, backstabbing, and many other red flags that lead to illness, morbidity, and mortality due to the indecisive coherence in relationships dynamics.
The silence marker of health includes thoughts, beliefs, interactions, communications, and undesired outcomes, yet silence is the action. Number one of the human sense of belonging is to be liked. Therefore, silence can be the organic result of being liked. Therefore, another question has to follow: Does it promote health and well-being? Or Does it add up to the accumulation of stress and compromise your mental health. When you know the answer, you must face it, acknowledge it. If the answer makes you unsatisfied about your current self, you can detour and start the journey toward the person when you face; you feel life, authenticity, fulfillment, and this inner sense of happiness and contentment. It all starts with you making the changes you love to see in your future self. By: ME, "The Old Ancient Woman"
