Since the world is always changing, we will constantly have disturbed homeostasis
Occasionally, threat signals do stop for a while—just as long as every system stays in balance. But since the world is impermanent always changing, there are endless disturbances in the homeostasis of your body and mind, and thus potentially a constant stress-response. The regulators of the systems of your life, from the molecular bottom all the way up to the interpersonal top, must keep trying to impose static order on inherently unstable processes. Everything changes. That’s the universal nature of outer reality and inner experience. Therefore, there’s no end to disturbed homeostasis as long as you live. But to help you survive, your left hemisphere keeps trying to stop the river, struggling to hold dynamic systems in place, to find fixed patterns in this variable world, and to construct permanent plans for changing conditions. The right hemisphere is better at dealing with fluidity and motion, whereas the left is better at dealing with things in stasis. Consequently, your left hemisphere is forever chasing after the moment that has just passed, trying to understand and control it.
References
- Hanson, Rick. (2009). Buddha’s Brain The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom Chapter 2.The Evolution of Suffering (p. 38). New Harbinger Publications: Oakland, CA.
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