Why You Can't Just "Feel" God's Presence And What Your Nervous System Has to Say about it

There is a particular kind of shame that shows up in my office more than almost any other. It sounds like this: “Everyone talks about feeling God’s presence. I don’t feel anything. I must be doing something wrong.” For most of the people who say this to me, the problem isn’t their faith. It’s their nervous system running a prediction it hasn’t updated yet. NOT A SCAR. A MISCALIBRATED ALARM.. For a decade, the dominant popular image of trauma has been that the body stores it — that a wound...