The Hidden Source of Suffering
How your nervous system built illusions that keep you trapped Every thought and emotion comes down to our belief system, comes down to neural connections inside the brain that were once formed. They were formed as a definition of reality, as a definition of an experience we had in the past. But what is doing the defining? What is deeper than the belief system? Our nervous system. Before a thought appears, before meaning is created, before a story is told, the nervous system already decided: Safe or unsafe. Fight, flight, freeze, or dance. Over time, consciousness started to identify with the conceptual self. With ideas, images, roles, and stories of “me.” To protect this imagined self, the nervous system built layers of defense around an illusion. From that point on, perception was no longer guided by truth, but by protection. Not by reality, but by survival. Beliefs became rigid. Thoughts repetitive. Behavior predictable. The system defended an identity that never truly existed. Awakening is not about creating new beliefs. It is about seeing through the illusions that made fear and protection necessary in the first place.