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Idealizing the strong numb hero has possibly exterminated the human race.

Beliefs About Feelings

A New Decision

The present conditions of environmental degradation, mass extinction of species, global warming beyond critical tipping points, greedy consumption of nonrenewable resources, economic injustices, overpopulation, weapons of mass destruction, and the general failure of seemingly intelligent human beings to create a sustainable future for ourselves on this garden planet are all consequences of revering numbness.

Personally choosing numbness may have been unconscious for you. Perhaps you patterned yourself on the numbness of modern culture, taking on machine-like qualities of being fast, hard and impersonal. Perhaps you obediently followed in your father’s or mother’s footsteps by adopting the level of numbness handed down from generation to generation in your family’s tradition.
Either way, the massively-multiplayer online and offline personal development game StartOver.xyz confronts you with making the choice to consciously continue your old behaviors or practice new ones. Either you will tighten your internal restraints and stay numb, or you will break the chain around your heart and simply allow yourself to feel.

At any moment your new decision may prevail.

If deep sobs of grief over lost years of feeling erupt from your heart and convulse your lungs and chest for hours or days while reading this website and doing the experiments, do not worry. That is okay. Nothing is wrong with you. You are coming back to life.

Deep grief over missed opportunities and loneliness long endured is the healing path toward a more humane future. Seen in this light, your sadness equates to a celebration. Intimacy is still possible for you. Your heart is not dead. The remainder of your life can be filled with inner sensations of belongingness that no one can take away from you ever again.

Your feelings are fine. Having your feelings back is so simple. Yet, like a sudden down-pouring of rain after a long drought, the new experiences may change everything. Nothing can prepare you for the awesome abundance when green shoots sprout miraculously out of dry desert sands.

Feelings Come Knocking

Some of us are forced to learn about feelings by unwanted side effects from years and years of numbness. We may suffer:

rashes
nail biting
hair plucking
skin picking
depression
overeating
burnout
anxiety
hypertension
drinking
shame
drug taking
adaptive behavior
confusion
insomnia
indigestion
intestinal problems
frustration
hopelessness
headaches
asthma
nervous twitches
fatigue
listlessness
lack of financial success
family stress
failed relationships
sexual dysfunction
infertility
despair
oversleeping
back pain
accidents
self-injury
angina
bulimia
anorexia
attempted suicide

Even such conditions as bipolar, borderline, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, Graves’ disease, and Parkinson’s disease are suspected of being related to unexpressed feelings. Some of us are driven to investigate feelings after years of being subject to:

hysteria
aggression
shouting
violence
rage
destructive temper tantrums
claustrophobia
paralysis
sentimentality
a gambling or shopping addiction
lying
speeding
theft
corruption
engaging in intrigue
mobbing
indiscriminate sex
betraying or being betrayed.

Ignoring such expressions does not make them go away. On the contrary, denial only intensifies their destructive impact on our lives. For example, a brilliant and successful professional consultant friend of mine found himself arrested and in jail because he was caught walking out of a bookshop with an unpurchased book in his pocket. He was completely flabbergasted by his own behavior! He had no explanation.

Perhaps the question of feelings has come knocking more surreptitiously. Are you alone? Divorced? Has a loved one complained that he or she just can’t get through to you? That you don’t listen? That you’re not open to intimacy? Do they say they don’t really know who you are?
Perhaps your children are distant, keeping themselves away from you.
Perhaps intimacy disturbs something deep within you rather than being genuinely satisfying.

Perhaps you feel disconnected from the human race, isolated in your own separate world.

Consequences of Numbness

Conspiracy Against Feelings

We have been well instructed to stay numb. In modern society, the worst names you can be called are Yellow! Chicken! Scaredy Cat! We learned at a young age that it is disgraceful to feel. The man or woman who wins in business, politics, war, or sports is the last man standing, the strong numb hero.

Each generation finds a way to bury the pain of sending their own children into war to do the dirty work of the ruling classes. Specialized numbing techniques have become familiar features of today’s society. We were sent to school to study numbing topics. We brought home numbing homework, preparing us to work long hours at numbing jobs with a numbing commute and constantly droning numbing news. We work for money to shop for things we don’t need, to buy drugs and entertainment that seduce our attention and deaden the horrifying recognition of modern empire’s proudest success: globalization.

Corporate-controlled international financial institutions encourage businessmen to invade, subvert and globalize forty thousand years of diverse human cultures around the world using any means available. By reducing cultures to Disneyfied caricatures, local customs and traditions are disempowered and replaced by mass-produced brands sold at franchised shops to make ever-increasing profits. No mechanism exists to monitor or stop the manufacturers of monoculture, not even the United Nations. The globalization steamroller has gone berserk. Being numb, we blindly participate.

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