Weight

Heaviness and lightness.

Heart. Body. Mind.

Could go through how anatomy/physiology, the mind, and the social/cultural are interconnected and interactive information systems that influence each other regardless of your views on religion and spirituality, and that if we toss in the spiritual it would another linked system, so whatever, but, I'll just let this paragraph introduce/reaffirm that idea.

Plus I don't care about whether we call the heart an affective-aspirational network of perceptions and impulse, or whether the mind is an emergent phenomena arising from the brain or localized, concentrated, catalystic cloud of coherent sentience crystallized from a fundamental form of awareness that exists as a property or aspect of fundamental elements of time-space. I'm just gonna say "heart" and "mind" and you'll know what I mean without all the blah-blah-blah drama.

Yes, some cultures see what some call the heart as part of the mind, and...

Ahem.

So here's a way to think about weight, and to consider the heart-body-mind connection. It's a way to get a handle on basic aspects of wellness. No doubt it will have connections to ancient sacred teachings (about things like qi, lung, prana, etc.) and modernized takes on those teachings, as well as some slowly emerging fields within the health sciences. This is my take from my own experiences.

For the sake at least of analogy, consider information as something manifesting as or through energy and matter. For humans, we have of physiological system with its anatomical pathways and structures for our biological bodies. We also have our social system with its cultural pathways and structures for our interpersonal bodies. Those two systems, physiological and social, interact in many ways but the actions are primarily regulated by the brain and recognized/experienced through the mind.

Again, some people will argue that mind is a localization of a universal awareness tangled up with the brain, or that the mind is just an illusion conjured by the brain or a higher form of function that is a new level of organization beyond the sum of its brainy parts. So argue. But we know what people generally mean by mind.

And in this model, the brain and mind are two sides of the same coin as the area where the social and physiological meet. Human minds (whatever the ultimate nature) are bound up with and at the very least greatly affected by brains, and so no brains, no versions of mind as we currently experience them. Would they persist in some other altered way without the brain? If so, how? Great questions to speculate, but they aren't necessary here.

The point is that physiology (which includes genetics and epigenetics) and its related anatomical structures are connected by information pathways to sociology (including linguistics and personalities) and its related cultural structures (like languages, worldviews, etc.). Information can flow back and forth within these different areas, translated (sometimes in very distorted or limited ways) from one medium to another and therefore affecting how those other areas/systems work. The mind-brain, and hence psychology/neuroscience, are the critical to producing/reproducing/storing much of the social, despite written language, physical tools, human-made structures, etc. They are also crucial to the highway between the physiological and the social (although human-made alterations to the physical environment, influences on dietary and physical habits, etc., can also directly impact and send signals to our physiology).