Awakening is often framed as a moment of arrival. In practice, it is something far quieter and more exacting: a gradual reorientation of who is driving the system. Most people do not lack awareness or intention. What they lack is choice at the level where choice actually matters. The human body arrives carrying an inheritance that predates the individual—genetic memory, unfinished grief, survival strategies shaped by fear and necessity. The body is not malfunctioning when it