Gabor Mate....
Suppression of authenticity is a concept that society, life, has forced our authentic self out and replaced it with our "second nature", with is not the true essence of self. What a mouth full.
Modern society promotes money and wealth as being the marker of success. Greed, lust, sex, gouging, theft, abusing others, fraud without getting caught, even crime, are promoted as markers of success. This is a spirit draining life.
To reestablish a essence of person, we need to develop loving kindness of self, a compassion for self, an inner joy, equanimity. Sounds like serenity.
We have implicit memory, which are not the memories, but trigger something from our youth or past. When we react to something, it can be the imprinted reaction that we learned. This is the Rosetta Stone of our emotions.
To get at the source, we need to list what happened, the emotion, our interpretation,
what the implicit memory is or might be and the imprinted reaction.
Sounds like step four to me.
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