Top Highlights

• there are five stages of perception through which awareness evolves from unconscious to consciousness: symptom, dream, fantasy, emotion, and insight.
• awareness is the actual core and truth of who you are and your connection with all that is alive.
• What if every aspect of who you are and who you are designed to be is actually built into your psychological structure at birth and waiting for activation? What if self-image and self-worth are directly linked to self-expression? What if the most joyous moment of your life is actually your normal state of mind?
• When personality is too rigid, it is a brutal dictator that distorts our perception of reality, inhibits self-expression, and produces massive symptomatic shifts of self-image, self-worth, and energy levels.
• In the biological system, holding your breath causes painful symptoms to arise fairly quickly. In the psychological system, holding back anger or sadness or sexual expression can immediately create a variety of symptoms that cause suffering and inappropriate or even self-destructive behavior.