The 21st century healthcare system has been characterized by rapid developments in medical technology, the availability of treatments, and advances in medicine. These changes have contributed greatly to better prevention, management and control of chronic diseases such as heart disease, asthma, diabetes and arthritis. However, the reality of chronic illness is intertwined with continued declines in quality of life, dependency, medications, and limitations. In this condition of worsening health, the patient experiences in a crude way the dichotomy between mind and body. As P1 shares: “My mind is fine, but my body is just weak. It has its own ways." In this regard, the article will bridge the mind-body gap and explain the relationship of the body, ascertaining that the body of the patient suffering from a chronic disease communicates with both the person and the body. the world that 1. The body of the chronically ill person is a nexus of living meanings made manifest by the articulations of pain and health, suffering and joy. 2. The body as a subject manifests humanity beyond cultural construction and linguistic formulation. 3. The relationship between the chronically ill patient and the body is that of an intertwined subjectivity, of a single human dignity and strength. This manifests itself through the patient's continuous struggle for life despite the awareness of the worsening of the quality of health and of decreased quality of life Chronic disease: the condition Chronic diseases, unlike acute diseases which are episodic and treatable with the hope of returning to normality, are a continuous struggle for life. multivariate process requiring persistent management. Furthermore, management is not limited only to caring but to enabling p......middle of paper...ience. However, what can be inferred is that it exists prior to our awareness of what is there. It is both internal and external. The body alone constitutes the access with which to know the world. This connection of the body to the world is anchored in the reality that the body is there with and in the world. The experiences of the body are not something you extract or signify, they are there simply because the body is there. Works Cited Holman, 2009 Murray et al., 2005 Ibid, p 1008. Gastmans et al, 1998; Cronoquest et al. 2004; Tuckett, 1999 and 2005; Patistea, 1999; van Hooft 1999; Covington 20Ricoeur 1992, p 191)(Boykin & Schoenhofer, 1990, p 150)(Gastmans et al, 1998, p 46)” (Gastmans et al 1998).Naef, 2006, 49)(van Hooft 1999, p 190)( Gastmann et al 1998, Gastmans 1999).(Schantz 2007, Gallagher 2007