Sylvia uses stories from popular culture to teach that, no matter what has happened in people’s past, there is the potential to achieve peace in the future, through the compassionate support of others.
A quality of awareness is discernment, which can be active or passive. Passive discernment is seeing, "just this" without doing anything about it, while active discernment is uncovering what is hidden and unconscious. It uses an energetic and curious probing to broaden the expanse of awareness and welcome it beyond its egoic boundaries.