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Such an unexpected and troublesome feature of being human is that we feel so much more than we spontaneously realize we feel. There are emotions coursing through us of anger or joy, resentment or fear that lies just outside the sphere of ordinary consciousness. And that elude us as we rush through the challenges of our lives.

These emotions lie low, in part because they're often too shocking or sad or contrary to expectations for us to want to make sense of them. We might hate where we're supposed to love, or might feel sad, where we are meant to be practical. And so out of timidity and fear we emit to register our authentic reality, or else our feelings get ignored because they enter our minds too fast and in to greater quantity for us to disentangle them in the limited time we devote to self understanding. And yet, unless the full panoply of our emotions is regularly identified, and adequately felt, we are likely to fall prey to arrange a psychological ills, anxiety, paranoia, depression and worse.