How do YOU know who you are? Some events are harbingers of change, some events symbolize a rite of passage, but no event defines you.
You can know who you are by what you do, you can know who you are by looking at how you spend, you can know who you are by looking at what you surround yourself with. If you do not know who you are, there are many ways to find out. Yet there is a difference between the “soul” you and your behavior.
In order to be “present” at any given time, you must be aware of your mind, body, thoughts, emotions and spirituality. It follows that knowing who you are must include all of these. To begin with your mind includes thinking and thoughting. Thinking is the original process you are in this moment in time and thoughting involves invoking old events and beliefs into current thinking. You’re body not only reacts to your current thinking and thoughting but it keeps its own history throughout time and throughout your physical being.
Emotions occur as often and are as varied as thoughts. Emotions vary in intensity, often based on the character of the person. Spirituality is not religion, nor is it religious practice. It is an internal connection with that which is divine.
How does your character define you? Characteristics are often simple descriptions, but for purposes of this discussion are inherited. They are most easily recognized as inherited in infants. A newborn will often display character traits immediately without benefit of socialization. Therefore the assumption is that these traits come from our genes. Any nursery will reveal a wealth of different characteristics in newborns from: happiness, sadness, and fearfulness to clinging, cheerfulness and angry outbursts.
So to begin you have your inherited character and with it comes all of who you are, a thinking, thoughting, emoting, spiritual, physically alive being who lives in circumstances and through events.
So who are you? Begin the conversation, it may be the most important conversation you have…
