The Intelligence Between Things (Part 1/2)
Why Health Is Rarely Broken, and More Often Uncoordinated
A body is a room full of conversations
At certain moments, health feels less like a structure and more like a rhythm. Not silence, not noise, but signals that mostly agree with one another. When it is present, it does not announce itself. It simply holds together.
Most people assume biology works by command. Something breaks. A part fails. The task becomes finding the failure. The knee. The nerve. The scan. Medicine has trained us to look for the broken piece.
But much of what determines how we feel does not live inside a single part. It lives between parts.
What looks like a symptom is often a loss of coordination.
Symptom Versus System
In clinic, people arrive naming the problem they have been taught to name. Pain. Anxiety. Insomnia. Fatigue. They are correct. The symptom is real.
But the deeper question is rarely “what is wrong here?” It is “what stopped working together?”
When systems coordinate well, the body self-corrects quietly. When coordination falters, small disruptions amplify. Sl…
