When we are not in our own direct experience of life we are split.  Split from our true self and split from the freedom of living from our own inner truth.

It is the resistance to being our true self that causes internal conflict and emotional pain.

What keeps us disconnected from our true self are the feelings of separation that exist within us.  We try to avoid those original feelings, of not being good enough, wrong, that we inherited.  However, by default, these uncomfortable feelings influence the way we live until they are healed.

When we acknowledge and heal our original pain we will stop acting it out.  The opportunity is to live from the center of our being, the heart of creation.