Every human being on earth has one thing in common: we’ve all been born. Our original templates for responding to stress, pressure, transitions, and pain are crystallized during our prenatal and birth experiences. These neurologic operating systems become fixed in our psyche and physiology, causing us to respond to present-day challenges with outdated survival patterns. The persistence of these patterns often resists most forms of therapy. To liberate ourselves effectively from these unconscious survival strategies, we must understand how they were initially established.