Many metabolic, physiologic and endocrine abnormalities are “silent”; i.e., they show no warning signs before (“pre-“) one’s life or wellbeing are tangibly threatened (“clinical”).
Great numbers of such “pre-clinical” conditions can be identified in formative stages via simple tests, including heart rate, blood pressure, and a standard “blood panel”. For this reason, physicians uniformly recommend regular check-ups, with the frequency and type of testing dependent on age and other risk factors.
It’s unfortunate that we don’t have similar periodic testing for “pre-clinical” psychological, social, functional or productivity-associated abnormalities – the likes of which affect a much greater segment of society much more frequently.
Some such “conditions” are not all that occult and don’t require any sophisticated technology to diagnose; viz., bad attitude, narcissism, bullying, prejudice, selfishness, insensitivity, and all the usual vices.
Flying further under the radar are short-sightedness, unrealistic expectations, unfounded assumptions, and claims of unwarranted entitlements.
But, buried to a point near oblivion, is our teleologic development – our overall “maturation” – which often falls far short of its potential in both substance and actualization.
Standard practice is to consider these ancillary “pre-clinical conditions” as largely self-limiting. Thus, it is expected that any deficiencies will be “made right” in due course by usual and customary personal development and editing processes … self-evaluation, supervisory intervention, social/marketplace pressure, overall enlightenment, experience, personal and professional development interventions, etc.
Otherwise:
“You make your own bed, you sleep in it!”
Maternal Axiom
However, such “benign” interventions do not generally have a compelling urgency or standard of “completion”/”cure”, certification or accountability, and are often pursued only to a point of keeping trains from running completely off the tracks.
So most “Pre-Clinical Conditions” persist with varying degrees of covert debilitation and are benignly tolerated, with the result that “normal” becomes a dumbed-down caricature of our true blueprint possibilities and a slip-shod “average” becomes the “New Normal”.
While there is little hope of ever finding a “cure-all” for such a diverse assortment of such deeply imbedded “pre-clinical conditions”, we have to do as much as possible to minimize debilitating consequences. Keeping our vision tied to higher purposes and greater goals, and continually capacitizing ourselves for sustainable engagement has the collateral effect of lifting us above mere mortal impingements – even in the face of severe “post-clinical” circumstances [viz., Stephen Hawkinghttp://www.hawking.org.uk/ ].
Let’s get our Visioning, Vectoring and Voyaging adjusted, accordingly! Quartermaster
