{"id":4217,"date":"2011-01-26T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=4217"},"modified":"2011-01-26T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T01:41:11","slug":"health-is-a-virtuous-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2011\/01\/26\/health-is-a-virtuous-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Health is a virtuous circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health is a virtuous circle &#8211; that thought came to me the other day, as I thought about how well I&#8217;m feeling lately.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008000\">&#8230;Knock on wood that I didn&#8217;t just jinx things&#8230; Shades of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U8HlHpACXyw\">Superstition<\/a>&#8230; \ud83d\ude09 <\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Vicious circles are pretty familiar, right? You have an itch, you scratch it. It gets itchier, you scratch some more. Before you know it, you&#8217;ve got a rash or a raging case of scabies. Mental scabies, even.<\/p>\n<p>Drink a little too much. Burn the candle at all six ends. Abuse those relationships. Drink (or toke) some more. Whatever. Sit on your ass all day. Pretty soon you&#8217;re an open wound, baby.<\/p>\n<p>At which point you have more reasons to pour on the salt &#8211; &#8217;cause then you can get even more deeply into the vicious circle. Scratch scratch scratch.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800080\">(Or bitch bitch bitch. Mind you, I&#8217;m a big fan of critique, which I think is necessary for mental acuity. But bitching is just debilitating. If exercising critique can get you into exciting realms of possibility, bitching just gives you a tighter grip on your walker&#8230;)<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>When you&#8217;re healthy, it&#8217;s easier to stop scratching the itch that&#8217;s making you crazy in the first place. After a while, it&#8217;s not so itchy at all.<\/p>\n<p>Bingo. Virtuous circle.<\/p>\n<p>Not so superstitious, either.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stevie Wonder - Superstition\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U8HlHpACXyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health is a virtuous circle &#8211; that thought came to me the other day, as I thought about how well I&#8217;m feeling lately. &#8230;Knock on wood that I didn&#8217;t just jinx things&#8230; Shades of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s Superstition&#8230; \ud83d\ude09 Vicious circles are pretty familiar, right? You have an itch, you scratch it. It gets itchier, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2346,203,678],"tags":[31137,2313,31139],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-health","category-ideas","tag-mental_health","tag-virtue","tag-virtuous_circle"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}