A healthy body-mind is like a safe, clean, quiet, cozy room. It is presided over by you, not by anyone or anything else. In this room, there are no screams of terror or horror, no unforgivable guilt or shame banging on the door. Nor are there graffiti on the walls: “You should or should have, you won’t, you can’t.” Your room often has visitors but it is not haunted by archaic ghosts, obsessions, or compulsions. Nor is it cluttered by grudges.

All that happens to you passes through like hikers that take nothing and leave nothing behind. Yet, this is usually a joyous and welcoming room from which you do not seek to flee but in which you find sanctuary and out of which you gather much to give.

This spacious room has a picture window on each wall facing the four directions of a compass:

East: The rising........

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