The hypothalamus is a small but crucial brain region linking the nervous and endocrine systems, acting as the body’s control center for maintaining homeostasis (internal balance) by regulating temperature, hunger, thirst, sleep, mood, stress, and hormone release via the pituitary gland. It receives signals from the body and brain, coordinating essential functions like body temperature, appetite, sleep cycles, blood pressure, and emotional responses, making it vital for survival.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
Psychological “flow states” are much easier to enter and sustain when the underlying organismic flow is relatively harmonious and supported.
