They can be dictated by events of which we have no recollection. During the quotidian business of daily life, the brain does indeed operate very much as a machine does.ĭecisions that we may believe to be freely made can arise from unconscious emotional drives or subliminal beliefs. The passive side of mental life, which is generated solely and completely by brain mechanisms, dominates the tone and tenor of our day-to-day, even our second-to-second experience. “Much of what we do arises from automatic programming that bypasses conscious awareness and may even run contrary to our intentions, as Dr. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction When I did not write, I suffocated in silence.” To do so is healing for ourselves and for others not to do so deadens our bodies and our spirits. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art, or music or through the inventiveness of work or in any number of ways unique to all of us, whether it be cooking, gardening, or the art of social discourse. The gods, we are taught, created humankind in their own image. The more I listened, the louder the message became: I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself. At first I could not say whether it was heartburn or inspiration. The faint whisper of a word would sound in my head: writing. “In the rare moments I permitted any stillness, I noted a small fluttering at the pit of my belly, a barely perceptible disturbance.
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