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There’s an alarm in your body. It rings when something feels wrong — not wrong like “I left the stove on,” but wrong like “something is coming for me.”
For sixty years, I believed that alarm. Built fortresses around it. Tried everything to make it stop.
Then I discovered what I was protecting myself from:
A sock on the floor.
The Category Error
The nervous system evolved to protect you from external threats. Cars that can hit you. Falls that can break bones. That protection makes sense.
But somewhere along the way, it started applying the same logic internally — treating sensations, emotions, and contractions as if they could hurt you too.
They can’t.
There’s no internal self that can be hit. The gun is real as experience. The bullets are blanks.
That’s the category error underneath most suffering: the rules of being hit applied where nothing can be hit.
Bullshit Valley
Once internal sensation gets treated as threat, the mind creates a map:
HERE: contracted, lacking, wrong. THERE: expanded, whole, fixed.
I call the gap between them Bullshit Valley.
Every strategy — fixing, improving, healing, awakening — requires that gap. None of them close it. That’s why progress feels temporary. That’s why you keep cycling through approaches.
The gap isn’t real. HERE was never actually lacking anything.
Why Knowing Isn’t Enough
Here’s what took longer to see:
You can know that nothing internal can hurt you — and still be at war.
An enemy with no weapons is still an enemy.
What actually ended the war wasn’t insight. It was seeing that resistance was never an enemy at all.
It was a lost part of me I’d been abandoning.
Care Not Control
Even “feeling your feelings” can become a war — staying with discomfort in order to make it go away. That’s still control wearing a softer costume.
What actually works isn’t control. It’s care.
Control says: this needs to change, fix, dissolve. Care says: you belong here. Take your time.
When I stopped treating resistance as foreign, it stopped defending itself.
Nothing was ever forgotten. Only misinterpreted.
What This Site Offers
Two ways to see the pattern:
The Book — CLEAR SEEING — documents the mechanism collapsing fifty times, from the inside, until your body recognizes it before your mind can take the bait (click).
The UNWIND App — helps you notice the switch as it happens and meet sensation with care instead of control (click).
Neither teaches techniques. Neither offers self-improvement. Neither promises transformation.
They remove a mistake.
If This Applies to You
If you recognize yourself here, you don’t need to try harder or understand more.
You need fewer false problems.
You need to stop abandoning yourself.
The alarm will still ring sometimes. Sensation will still arise. But when there’s nothing that can be hit and no one left treating themselves as foreign, ordinary life continues without the inner war.
That’s all this ever was.
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Michael Harris spent 25 years in corporate success before three years of desperate spiritual seeking. The seeking ended not with enlightenment but with laughter — discovering that sixty years of fortresses had been protecting him from a sock. He lives on Ward’s Island near Toronto.