title: Defeat the Enemy Within: Free Yourself of the Inner Shadows That Sabotage and Cripple Your Life
author: Charles Skillas PhD
description: Charles Wm. Skillas, PhD, is a Board Certified National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) Hypnotherapist, Master Clinical Hypnotherapist and NGH Certified Hypnotherapy Instructor practicing in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Following years in the Aerospace/Defense Industry, he has been in practice since 1981. He is on the faculties of St. Johns University and the National Board of Hypnotherapy and Hypnotic Anesthesiology.
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  ## Prologue: The Monologue of Yōsuke Hirata
  
  
  
  
  
  To me, my classmates are important existences.
  
  
  
  
  
  …No, that’s not quite right.
  
  
  
  
  
  To me, my class is the important one.
  
  
  
  
  
  I know very well the contradiction within that statement.
  
  
  
  
  
  To protect my important friends, I have to protect the class.
  
  
  
  
  
  If I can protect the class, I can protect my friends.
  
  
  
  
  
  The class is a gathering of several students. There are as many different ways
  of thinking as there are the number of people. They start fighting each other
  over the most insignificant things.
  
  
  
  
  
  That’s why I have to protect them.
  
  
  
  
  
  Eventually, protecting my class became my duty.
  
  
  
  
  
  However— that’s not my true self.
  
  
  
  
  
  I was never the center of my class originally. Instead, my existence was that
  of a shadow.
  
  
  
  
  
  Using Clas