In modern life we have been forced to becoming trained in disregarding self, people, nature, and events as a mechanism to protect “ourselves.” The painful truth however, is that disregarding or being the object of someone’s disregard is disempowering - the experience of a sense of separation or loss of connection polarizes us. And it manifests itself in the form of dissociation, distancing or splitting off of affect, a sort of psychic numbing, and in objectification. The result - establishment of a hierarchical structure where some become the “doers” and all else around, the objects of manipulations and doing.