Remembering Who You Are

That’s right, I said remember.

You see, I believe we are all born KNOWING who we are – and probably why we are here.  So, why do so many of us get to a point (or ten😀) in our lives where we don’t know who we are? 

From the moment we have any way of understanding communication from others, we are told what a good boy or a bad girl is.  That may help to keep us physically safe, but it may also drive us away from who we are.  The older we get, the more our parents, our teachers, and our society tell us to act a certain way or to be a certain type of person.  There usually isn’t malice here.  Everyone is just doing the best they can with the knowledge that has shaped them throughout their lives.  In other words “we’ve always done it that way.”  But what if there’s another way?

How has that “taming” or “domestication” served you?  Are you living the life you imagined?  Are you fulfilled by how you are BEing in this world?  If so, that is absolutely AWESOME!  Consider yourself blessed or lucky.

For the rest of you, do you sometimes feel like a square peg in a round hole?  What if you are a different shape entirely, and neither square nor round? What then?

The best possible outcome only happens if you remember who you’ve been all along.

Isis was the Egyptian goddess of magic.  She married her brother Osiris, but he was murdered and scattered across the land.  Isis put all those pieces of back together to bring him back to life.  In other words, she RE-MEMBERed him, and that’s what we need to do.  We need to take the pieces we know about ourselves, find more aspects we don’t yet know about, and put all those pieces together to remember who we are.  That will likely be something closer to who we were when we got to this planet.

Don’t forget that the only constant is change.  That means that every life event, every tragedy or success changes who we are.  And with each of those changes, we need to reassess who we are now.

I’ve written before about the fact that every person has the knowledge of who they are within, and I’ve covered a few different ways you can access that knowledge.  You can use a creative practice like painting or journaling.  You can use an embodiment practice like yoga or ecstatic dance.  You can even use meditation or mindfulness.  The important thing here is to quiet your mind, and then shut up and listen to that voice inside.  You know the one.  It sounds an awful lot like….YOU.  Then, if you choose to take action of what you now know, you can come to a point where you have a deep understanding of yourself.

Remembering who you are is one of the guiding principles in our Wonderland Calling group program.  In the group, we explore ways of getting still, ways of BEing in this world, and we find our own answers within.  If you know you want to remember who you are, I’d love to see you in the group.

Is Wonderland Calling you?  If it is, will you answer the call?