Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A product of one’s core values, beliefs, and goals used to interpret one’s experiences of the world.  

Broad states, ideals, or objects that one pursues such as work, knowledge, and relationships.  

Construct systems that cover broad areas like predictability, justice, and control.  

It is evolutionarily adaptive to the human species to genetically predispose some members of the human gene pool to retain more fat stores so that these individuals can survive famines when others perish.  

A restorative waking state that can be achieved through progressive relaxation training, autogenic training, guided imagery, meditation, or bio-feed back assisted relaxation training.  

The factors in Antonovsky’s salutogenic model that reduce stress-induced pressure to move toward the entropic direction of the health continuum.  

The mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas, which work in concert to ingest and digest food.