Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (Dial: $28) A college student from a home broken by tragedy falls in love with a woman who has strong bonds with her sisters.Ĥ. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf: $28) Lifelong BFFs collaborate on a wildly successful video game.ģ. Happy Place by Emily Henry (Berkley: $27) A couple who have split up pretend to be together while on vacation with friends.Ģ. He feels pain because there’s now a discrepancy between his internal image of himself and the image he’s trying to project.Įach of us develops these relationships between ourselves and the world in childhood – and then the rest of our lives are ruled by them, causing us to suffer.Įmotional poison causes people to have poor and abusive relationships.1. Suddenly, the boy begins to feel stupid and worthless. One day, he participates in a debate – but another student outperforms him.
Then, when one of these images is inevitably challenged, they feel immense pain.įor instance, picture a teenage boy whose self-image includes the notion that he’s very intelligent. They create images to project at school, at home, and eventually at work. These fears are all emotional poison.Īs a result of these feelings, children begin to create images of themselves that fit what they think other people want. They fear not being accepted, or they fear that who they are isn’t good enough. They learn to fear punishment and seek reward. But as children grow older, they begin to learn from adults who have long been infected by emotional poison. This way of being is actually the normal, healthy state of the human mind. But it’s usually not long before they return to playing. Of course, when they experience pain or something bad happens to them, they react. Two- and three-year-old children are unafraid to express love – most of their time is spent laughing and playing. Our emotional wounds start to appear when we’re around three or four years old. The key message here is: We begin accumulating emotional wounds in childhood. When children are born, they’re free of emotional poison, but it doesn’t take long to start accumulating. All other negative emotions – anger, sadness, envy, and so on – stem from fear. And those wounds are infected by an emotional poison we call fear. But the human mind, which Don Miguel refers to as the emotional body, is full of wounds. Most people’s skin isn’t covered in wounds, of course. Sound awful? Well, this situation is actually the current state of humanity.
The disease starts when people are around three or four years old, and everyone believes that having it is completely normal. Their skin is covered in open, painful, infected wounds. Imagine you live on a planet where all people are affected by the same disease.
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