Who Am I Really? · The Somatic Academy by Soma+IQ

Who Am I Really?

As I focus on my breath more and more, moving away from the judgments and analysis of the head, I notice that I need fewer and fewer words to describe myself. The breath has become my safe haven, as it has for Buddhists and mystics for centuries before me. I need very little thinking at all when I am with the breath, because life in all its glory reveals itself to me without any need for commentary.

I never needed to define myself. I never needed to keep updating versions of myself. Sure, I did need to release old, outdated ideas of who I thought I was: the victimised, the abused, the slighted, the belittled, the wrongly perceived. But who perceived wrongly in the first place, other than my mind?

All of that can go. I do not have to fight for myself anymore. I am life itself, expressing itself as life in a particular form. That form shifts and changes over time, but that does not change who I am fundamentally. I Am still life itself.

It was only thinking that separated me from life and isolated me from other forms of life expressing themselves differently from me, but they too are still fundamentally life itself. There really is no separation between us, except in thought, of course.

My new mantra now is slow down - thinking - and breathe; or more accurately let life breathe and express through you.

With love ❤️

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Who Am I Really?