Dear friend,
Science can map the folds of your brain.
It can trace emotions, measure impulses, and scan neural pathways lighting up in fear, love, or delight.
But there is one thing it still cannot name:
The You who is watching.
The You who notices thoughts rise and fall like waves.
Who feels awe beneath a sky full of stars.
Who weeps at music you didn’t know you remembered.
Who falls silent in love—not for lack of words, but because none are needed.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman reminds us that even the most advanced models of the brain fail to capture the mystery of consciousness—the essence of being that cannot be dissected or diagrammed.
And long before neuroscience tried to explain it, humanistic psychology honored it.
You are not just a sum of neurons.
Not just the product of your past.
You are a becoming—a living, breathing mystery unfolding in real time.
Abraham Maslow called this Being-cognition:
Moments when the veil lifts and something more breaks through:
— When the night sky presses its silence against your chest.
— When music stirs something older than language in your body.
— When love, unforced and quiet, enters the room like light through a window.
— When you sit in stillness, and for a breathless second, you remember:
You are not your fear. Not your story. Not your survival.
You are presence. You are light.
With reverence,
Dr. Gabriel Barsawme, LSW
A Reflection for the Week
Each day, give yourself one minute of stillness.
Nothing more. Just a pause.
Ask gently:
“What is my deepest truth right now?”
And then… listen.
No fixing.
No forcing.
Just presence.
Because the most profound shifts often begin not in doing, but in being—with the quiet light that was always inside you.
There is no final destination. No “arriving.”
Just this moment, fully alive.
And you, fully here.
P.S. If this message resonated—if you’re sensing that your healing journey is not about becoming someone else, but remembering who you already are—I invite you to join the waitlist for The Light Within.
It’s a space to return to your essence. To reconnect with what’s real.
You can learn more here.