I love this book! In her very first sentence: “Wholeness is not a vague ideal, but a lived experience,” Judith Blackstone affirms that the Realization Process offers an extraordinary path to deep healing.She lends unimaginable hope to those of us traumatized as children by those entrusted to protect us: “No matter how severe our traumatic experiences have been, when we know ourselves as Fundamental Consciousness, we know that we have not been irreparably damaged.”If you, like me, have sought to let go of hypervigilance or chronic anxiety, if you have felt “all alone,” or that you’re “too emotional,” or “too mental,” or “too much,” then this gentle, practical path may also help you reclaim your life.Chapter by chapter, Judith offers exercises that cultivate our capacity to inhabit our body and to attune to and live within the subtle core. The attunement exercises are subtle, yet transformational. The words and sentences in each exercise have carefully been honed.Her guidance is practical – and specific. She explains how to recognize and release “patterns of constriction and belief formed throughout our childhood, in relationship to our immediate family and to our peers at school.”Near the end of the book, Judith describes her unique release technique. Again she offers constructive examples and skillful advice as to how we can work with the exact pathways of our psychological constriction, recognizing and unwinding tension within the fascia, the connective tissues networked through the body. This process is gentle, yet precise.Whether we have been traumatized by a single severe injury or instance of abuse or by a series of small painful events repeated over time, we can actually regain a sense of self-possession, a sense of there being someone “at home.”As we grow into wholeness, all of our human capacities deepen, including our ability to love, to express ourselves, and to experience delight. This is a profound path to freedom.