OUR CONCLUSION IS CLEAR
It's our access to our emotions, needs and our ability for empathy, that helps us humans to connect with other people and our surroundings in general. It's in our self-experience our actions originate and where they take their first incremental steps. It is therefore important to start here, in our self- experience.
It may sound contradictory, but it's when we turn our attention inwards to explore, and put words on what we experience, that we really begin to feel participation with our surroundings. Feelings and needs are something we all have in common and therefore also share with each other.
The opposite is to ignore our experience, and unconsciously turn our eyes away from what creates belonging and trust. Instead leave us to program ourselves to an "Us vs.Them" mindset. Which happens when we are unaware of, or disconnected to our feelings and needs.