If you’ve ever found yourself snapping at someone you dearly love, or sitting down to complete a work project only to spend five hours shopping for home tattoo kits online, it’s probably because you’re internally divided. You’re trying to act in ways that don’t feel right to you at the deepest level. Whenever we do this, our lives begin to go pear-

Part X—with its usual destructive brilliance—blurs the distinction between the two and maintains the illusion that emotional pain can kill you. How can you uncross the wires? You get rid of the illusion that pain will kill you by letting it kill you. You need to let the pain in and feel it fully. What will die is your ego and it’s your ego that’s k

From a somatic point of view living any distance from our bodies is dodgy and the consequences harmful, even grave. Now we can scientifically ground, through technological advances in the emerging field of neuroscience, that distancing ourselves from our body places not only our physical health at risk, but our emotional health as well. Furthermore

The fear of life is a psychological autoimmune disease. It seeks to protect us from the perceived danger of being alive by holding life itself at arm’s length. It warps the lens of personal psychology through which we perceive the meaning, validity, and the potential effect of everything that happens to us, within us, and around us. It creates and