Research and limits
A good question leaves room for uncertainty.
State. Not Situation. brings together stories, research and practical questions. It also asks where its own explanation stops being enough.
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A way to ask better questions
The chapters that follow are organised around three systems that shape how your body’s signals get weighted before your mind builds a story. They are not brain regions or neural pathways. They are a sorting tool, a way to ask three questions when everything feels wrong at once.
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Evidence has different strengths
High
Replicated or robust evidence.
Medium
Suggestive evidence with meaningful uncertainty.
Low
Plausible hypothesis or emerging evidence.
These markers exist because the book’s own risk is the same risk it describes.
Each chapter has three parts here: a short note on where the thinking came from, a list of the work the chapter is built on, and a list of the work that limits it, complicates it, or explains the same evidence differently.
Leaving them out would make the argument look tidier than it is.
The Scientific Heartbeat, page 242
Evidence for a related mechanism does not automatically prove that a particular exercise works.
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The situation still matters
A person’s state can influence an interpretation while a real concern remains. This framework offers questions, not a diagnosis or a substitute for professional support.
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