Autopilot was survival. When the present was too much to bear, when feeling would have overwhelmed you, when awareness brought danger—you developed the ability to function without consciousness. Now you accomplish without experiencing, move through days without remembering them, achieve without satisfaction. You are living a life that feels borrowed because you are not actually in it.
Living disconnected means missing your own life, watching from outside, feeling like time passes without you.
Returning to presence means risking the pain of awareness, discovering that you can feel without being destroyed, learning that life is only lived when you are in it.
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Content informed by trauma research, polyvagal theory (Stephen Porges), somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), and nervous system regulation studies. For comprehensive citations and further reading, see Unfiltered Wisdom: The Book.
About the Author
Robert Greene is the author and founder of Unfiltered Wisdom, a US Navy veteran, and a trauma survivor with over 10 years of experience in nervous system regulation and somatic healing. He is certified in Yoga for Meditation from the Yogic School of Mystic Arts (Dharamsala, India, 2016) and affiliated with Holistic Veterans, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving veterans in Santa Cruz, California.