For a fight for survival. Prepping for a fight for survival. The fear you're experiencing in that fraction of a second is 100% real. Yes, completely. But then your hand brushes against the light switch on the wall. You flick it on. The room floods with light. You look down and realise it's just a coiled-up piece of rope. I love this analogy. Right? The physical threat was entirely in your mind, but the physiological toll on your body—stress, panic—that was absolute. In ancient Hingley philosophy, there's actually a concept for this very phenomenon called Maya, correct? Yes, Maya—a cosmic illusion that causes us to mistake surface appearances for the deeper truth. Today, we are going to ask a frankly uncomfortable question in modern healthcare: are we treating the rope or the snake? It's the perfect metaphor to ground what we're exploring today be ...