Emotional Well-being

Ease into sleep is the last step and the point of the whole program. Not force sleep, not achieve it. Ease into it.

Dissociation is the smartest thing your nervous system can do when it thinks the world is too dangerous to live in fully. You quickly master the skill of splitting your responses efficiently. You still must do things like...

There is a specific quality of experience that almost everyone in the Opathian state recognizes immediately when it is named. You are present in the room. You are engaged in the conversation. You are doing all the correct things that constitute participation in a moment. And somewhere, slightly above or behind or outside of it all, there is a you that is watching the you in the room, and the two of you are not entirely the same person.

You know that feeling when you're watching yourself from outside your body? When you're in a conversation, or at work, or even with someone you love, and you're observing yourself instead of living?