To know yourself totally is to know god totally.

This includes the parts of you that you might rather not look at; the parts of you that you abhor in others.

In the same way that "everybody poops" so does everybody "react" and experience nervous system activation. Everybody projects when they're activated. Everybody has belief systems and everybody has at least a few they identify with so deeply that they are blinded by them completely.

Everybody.

It is my greatest prayer that we as a society can begin to talk about and look at this aspect of humanity with knee-buckling humility and compassion. And even a little humor!

To be able to see your own reactivity, to explicitly look for what typically stays hidden, is to choose liberation.

What does it mean to be liberated? It means you feel safe to live in the world heart-wide-open and receptive under all circumstances, even the hardest ones. It means knowing — deep in your soul — that nothing is worth closing your heart. It means that you are guided _from there_ and trust the wisdom and discernment which arises from that sacred silent place.

Let's be clear: doing this work does not remove obstacle and challenge. Those who do not get wrapped up in the tangled mess of reactivity and emotional ricochets and who have healed their nervous systems and heightened their awareness by looking at the most hidden aspects of themselves still have obstacles and challenges. They just move through them significantly more gracefully and efficiently. Life just feels more joyful, simpler, easeful, light, even (and especially) in the face of challenge.

This is what UNBOUND is about.