The Healthy Management of Reality - Stanford University
The Healthy Management of Reality - Stanford University
The Healthy Management of Reality - Stanford University
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<strong>The</strong> objective environment refers to the physical and socialsurroundings. It can be measured. We can count how manytrees there are in your block, or the level <strong>of</strong> air pollution in yourneighborhood, or, as in our example above, how many miles <strong>of</strong>beaches by the ocean, lakes, or rivers there are near your home.<strong>The</strong> potential environment refers to the part <strong>of</strong> the universethat is accessible to you. It can also be measured. We can findout how many minutes it would take to walk, bike, drive, ortake a bus to the nearest body <strong>of</strong> water from your home.<strong>The</strong> actual environment is the "little chunk" <strong>of</strong> the universethat actually "touches" you in some way. It is the part <strong>of</strong> realitythat you allow to influence you in some way, or the part thatforces itself upon you. Again, it can be measured. Forexample, you could keep track <strong>of</strong> how <strong>of</strong>ten you walk by thewater each month, and how many minutes you spend there eachtime.HMOR.July2005.Muñoz.doc 19