Functionally Dysfunctional Boxes

By: Dr. David Jernigan
(re-published from earlier posts, back by popular demand)

In my last blog post called "The Aquarium Shark" I spoke of how our comfort zone is our box within which we view the world and live. I want to expand upon this theme.

I have heard many people tell me that if the life they are living is supposed to be their “Comfort Zone” there is nothing comfortable about it.

Life can be quite uncomfortable and miserable within our boxes. As uncomfortable as life may be, it must be understood that we are playing the game of life following the rules we agreed to use. Rules to the game of life seem to line the inside boundaries of each of our boxes.
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Early Deaths at an All-Time High: The Thinning of the Human Herd?

By Dr. David Jernigan

Every year approximately 1.5 million people are dying prematurely due to illness-related deaths. That adds up to 15 million men, women, and children every ten years. Imagine driving through New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming and seeing no living human!


There is a Chinese saying that speaks of the balance of all things. When there are many grasshoppers there will be many frogs to eat them. With many frogs there will come many herons to eat them. To everything there is a season. In the wilds of Alaska the wolves are apex predators and help to keep the deer populations in healthy numbers, thinning the herd.
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