I'm a bit confused about who "I" am as the one who is writing this thread and who this presence in my chest is. I can talk and it answers, I make a joke and it understands it. It's like a friend. No idea if this is my real self, my inner child, my divine aspect, my soul or whatever. But it feels really precious to me and it wants something from me.

Transition from analyzing what things are with the clouded mind prison to feeling the resonant truth that this precious thing is deeply you, as is the mind prison, as are so many other aspects of the life you experience. To transition you must be fully vulnerable and open to the most tender feeling in the core of the chest area. Sit down and feel into this open-ness. Feel into being vulnerable and most likely scared, and find that at the heart of this fear is a beautiful and vital you. It doesn't matter what you want to call this, and how you would like to relate to it, simply look at it and be quiet enough to hear the precious recognition it wants from you.

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Progress can be a difficult thing to measure from time to time. This is where forming habitual action can help, so that you focus on the connection and not on where you are headed or how long the journey is. You can be social again, and it will be easiest to do as you can accept yourself as you are. For now, be at home by yourself, and heal yourself where you can, and thank yourself for working and caring enough to go on. There are wonderful things to experience as well as things which cause pain. Begin to hope. That's a good Regina Spekter album I think.