Book excerpt: A practical, tough-love guide to fighting for your personal freedom by embracing fear and pain and tapping into your body's innate abilities. Distilled from Avi Grinberg's forty years of experience as a practitioner, teacher, and founder of the Grinberg Method, Becoming Yourself presents a groundbreaking alternative approach to human perception based on the body's experience of reality rather than the mind's interpretation of it. It promotes a way of being in the world that allows you to break through destructive patterns, harness your natural physical abilities, and empower yourself. This book does what it says: teaches you to become yourself, to peel away the limiting layers of past knowledge, beliefs, and experience, and find what is hidden underneath. It's a way of working with yourself that requires discipline, yet remains refreshingly free of dogma. Interested in living a fullfilling, meaningful, authentic life? This book will give you the tools. You'll learn to: identify the patterns you hold in your body, and how they affect your health and wellbeing practice a step-by-step somatic process designed to help you break free of those patterns "let your body work" and thrive on the sensations and energy that are released when you intentionally stop your patterns attain fulfillment in all aspects of your being - thinking, doing, feeling, and sensing