Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.
Awakening is understanding we have a voice in our mind that is the ego. Our ego has an endless stream of opinions, ‘truths’ and beliefs about who we are and who other people are. The ego is our protector, keeping us in the familiar cycles we grew up in. When we become more aware of the ego, we can understand we are not our thoughts. We aren’t our opinions. We aren’t our past. We aren’t our endless stream of identities. This is how we become free from our own suffering (much of our suffering doesn’t actually come from the events we experience, it comes from the meaning we assign to those experiences) Beware The Second Arrow! Our egos have been working to protect us, they need continued love and guidance in the integrative repair. “The whole thing about The One is that it pretends to be many. Here, that’s the gimmick. The game of hide and seek is dismemberment, falling apart. Losin...