You’re Not Who You Think You Are

From the moment we wake in the morning until the minute we fall asleep at night, our minds are racing with our
anxieties and stresses, thoughts of our hopes and dreams, ideas of what we think we should do, who we think we
should be, how we think others should be, and on and on.

All of these thoughts, fears, anxieties, and judgments are not who we are. They come from our mind. Problems in
our life occurs because we are identified with these constantly spinning thoughts.

The number one mistake that causes us to feel tired and out of the flow is that we are identified as the mind.

We are stuck in these thoughts and have become identified with the mind because we’ve never been taught the Truth of who we really are.

Let me explain…

When we come into this world, it’s as if we land, and we “splat.” We get dispersed in different directions. It’s as if our mind goes one way; our body goes another, and our breath goes a different way. This leaves us feeling disoriented, weakened, and, looking for something solid to hold onto, we grab onto the mind. When this happens, a false version of ourselves gets created – way out there on the outer rim of the splat.

We begin to live in our thinking mind in order to look around and protect ourselves and we start engaging in life from there. Very quickly we begin to think that’s who we are.

The problem with being identified as the thinking mind is that it is constantly ruminating on the things that it needs to do to feel safe and whole.

In any situation, we desperately look around to see if we’re ok and if we’re going to fit in. Our mind scans the room, noticing and sizing up the people around us as we try to decipher what is good and what is bad, whom we should listen to, what is appropriate to say, and on and on.

Looking to feel safe and accepted, we begin calculating, strategizing, and trying to please people so that we ultimately end up getting what we need.

The problem is, living in this way consumes a huge amount of energy.

We do all of this because whenever we are identified as the mind, we’re constantly looking for love, a sense of wholeness, and acceptance. Because the mind is only a part of who we are, if we’re attached to it and identified as it, we too think we’re less than the whole.

And the irony is, it’s true.

When we identify as the mind, we’re not connected or rooted in the Truth of who we are, our whole self, so we will always feel inadequate no matter what we do. Regardless of what we accomplish, how many external accolades we receive, educational degrees we obtain or material possessions we gather trying to validate and prove our worth, it will never be enough, or sustainable. This is one of the longest standing truths that humanity has had to realize. At some point in each of our lives, this will have to be mastered.

As long as you are identified as the thinking mind, you will constantly be exhausted