Here is my life, and over there is the disease that has encroached upon it. Seen this way, disease is something external with its own nature, existing independently of the person in whom it shows up. Given where that perspective has gotten us, it is time to consider a new one. We have already glimpsed the countless hormonal, neurological, molecular, immunologic, intracellular, and epigenetic pathways that make our physiology inseparable from our emotional, psychological, spiritual, and social lives.
