HLife | Healthy Living Redefined

In one of my favorite movies, “Alice in Wonderland”, the caterpillar asks Alice several times, “whoooo are youuu”? Alice is so overwhelmed and confused, trying to understand the environment she is in and her place in it, that she hardly knows what to say and doesn’t have an answer. How many of us have felt – and possibly still feel – this way? How many times have we encountered “caterpillars” asking us that same question? And, more importantly, how many times have we asked our own selves that question – “who am I?” Do you know the answer? Like with Alice, the problem for us is that life seems too overwhelming at times and we become confused, and so it goes that we fall in line with the rest of the herd in this illusion we call reality. With no real guidance or direction, it is tough (but not impossible) to find enough clarity of mind to delve deeper down the rabbit hole of our minds and spirits and begin to ask the right things: Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? Not knowing the answers to these essential questions creates mental handicaps of unnecessary uncertainty and illusory “limits”. It is these illusory limits in our minds that push us further away from who we are, and, desperate for answers to our identity, we compensate by entering a pool of people who have defined themselves by a single word, or very specific nouns (your name/material things you own) or what they do (occupation/eating style/hobby), and we make permanent residence in a limited label life that leaves us even more discontent than before. Who are you again?

We are living in a world of labels that by default reduces us to one word: our name. Our names, although not who we are, are needed in order to use as a form of communication (or as I would call: incomplete identification). Nowadays, with the emergence of social networking, (which is wonderful in many ways) we are forced to come up with yet more limiting names that are suppose to define who we are. They might state what we like doing, but those nicknames do not define who we are. On top of that, in the past couple of years, another limiting trend has emerged: the “I am my food style”.  As if the way you eat defines (in other words, IS) who you are. Eating a plant-based diet is something I do, it might say something about the way I think to a certain extent (because we all have different reasons why we eat in a particular way, so you have to ask the individual personally), but its certainly not WHO I AM. I am not what I do, I am not my material possessions, not my car, not my house, not my job, nor my eating style. You are not your profession or how much money you make. All of these things can’t tell me who you are. Tangible, and visible things will certainly express a small reflection of your internal self, but physical expressions change as we continuously gain life experience, and, hopefully, evolve.

The bare and raw picture here is that we are beings defined by nothing tangible. We are limitless multidimensional beings having a limited, material (amazing, if you choose and believe it) experience created by us. We are light-energy beings having a physical experience. Our intangibility, such as our thoughts, words, actions and how much these three are in alignment with each other, do continuously define us more than anything else. If we can understand this, see ourselves in this way – with intangible eyes – approach our identity from this perspective, and WORK to get to know ourselves on this level, then we can start to get to know who we really are, begin a relationship with our selves and maintain our ego in a productive, positive balance. From that global perspective, and with knowledge and understanding of our true multidimensional selves, we can begin to give answers to the questions of who we are and why we are here, and develop genuine love within ourselves as well as with others.