Break Out Of Your Prison Of Identities

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 Since the beginning of time many wise people have sought to answer the questions,

“Who am I? And what is my purpose in life?”

 

The brain has a way of making the complicated super simple. It has to in order to survive. It is this same brain that tackles these questions.

At this very moment, your brain is registering lots of stimuli. However it is able to only process that which it can focus its attention which is about 7 plus or minus 2 bits of information.

The brain compiles information that it’s exposed to and organizes it into neatly packaged and digestible bits of data.  It’s an age old strategy used by the young as well as the old to make sense of human existence and maintain a sense of survival. It is used to describe who you are, in essence, your identity.

As a child, your identity is forged by the experiences you have, your interpretation of those experiences, as well as the interpretations of those same experiences by ALL your family members and people you’ve come in contact.

It is that soup of interpretations (however warped or factual) that serve as evidence for any and all your personality quirks, distinctive characteristics, or identities.

It is also those same identities, which have brought you success, fame, fortune, and failure, that at one point you will have to release in order to expose your true, deeper self. 

If you prevent your authentic self from emerging, you will forever struggle to see people beyond your personally chiseled and "evidenced-based" viewpoint.

Letting go of your identities can be considered a scary process.

If you think about it, you’ve had your identity for a very long time. Your memory can testify to that fact. Therefore letting go of what you know, of what describes your very dearest existence, is no easy task.

People that delve into this process want not so much to eradicate their identities but want to allow their awesomeness to emerge even when using a common label, like business woman, to answer the age old question, “Who Am I?”

Today, ask yourself, “What are my most cherished identities? What are their values? What are their costs? How can I embrace my identities in such a way that I become my most authentic self?"

This task is not for the faint hearted or the microwave thinker. It’s also not a one-time event. Letting identities in or embracing all facets of them is a continuous daily process.

You tackle these questions to help you clarify what matters to you. So dear soul take your time to process these thoughts because in the end it will be worth every nanosecond; and those that you impact, those that come after you, they will treasure and benefit from it so much more.

 

What are your thoughts? Leave a comment below, and…

 

Happy processing!