Thus, when the informants in our study refer to bodily sensations as a warrant of safety, this way of assessing risk may be linked to the development and/or optimization of a bodily learning potential.
It seems that voluntary action is an essential source for the development of the bodily self, to build a global and coherent body consciousness.
A study among members of the Danish MS society, investigating treatment assumptions among exclusive users of CAM, indicates that the users regard the development of personal, bodily experiences as an important part of personal health enhancement [ 41].
This is partly in contrast with skinfold thickness measurements, which disclose significant changes in body composition increase of adiposity and possibly of slightly reduced development of other bodily tissues as muscles due to insufficient stimulation by physical activity and exercise [ 18, 35].
It has been hypothesized that a persistent lack of cortisol availability in traumatized or chronically stressed individuals may promote an increased vulnerability for the development of stress-related bodily disorders [ 51].
For instance, several participants described, how, since becoming involved in CrossFit, they had come to see the purpose of physical fitness as the nurturing of a skill set or the building of physical capacity rather than the development of bodily aesthetics such as "wanting to be skinny" (Jo, 27 years).
Turning to contemporary trans* – transgender, transsexual, and trans – movements for social change, I argue that Jess's politics of bodily and emotional abrasion can help in the development of a trans* politics of emotion.
One plausible pathway linking environmental conditions to the development of bodily disease is the model of allostatic load [ 1].
The term "serious bodily injury" means bodily injury which involves a substantial risk of death, unconsciousness, extreme physical pain, protracted and obvious disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty.
protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty.
