Jewish Life Digital Edition April 2015 | Page 77

Many aspects of your story lie dormant, like by-products of wheat or sugar manufacture. When wheat and sugar are processed, all the parts that make the product perishable or vulnerable to attack by insects get discarded. What remains is a bleached substance that pretends to be a food by providing energy, but has no real nutritional value, and in fact damages your system. Nevertheless, these are the products that sell and everybody values them despite the truth about their real nature and the purely expedient motives behind their manufacture. The same can be true of your story. In all likelihood you were, like most of us, recruited into pretence about what is the right way to think, feel and behave by people who had motives and agendas that had little to do with helping you grow into an authentic adult, connected and confident, to honour your true needs and deeply held beliefs. You might feel at times that you emerged from the process of growing up more bleached and empty than richly nourished and substantial. Emerging as a manufactured standardised product certainly ensures life will be safe. It offers the guarantee that if you ‘chameleon-a ї