We are so much more than the explanations we give about why we are. There’s so much that it simply won’t add up using only one aspect of us. If we think we are what we are because of unmet infantile needs, that might answer some of the questions about why we are, but not all of them. There is a danger of over simplifying who why and what we are.
I often ask the law of attraction advocates of how they can explain child abuse deliberate or not; how could the child possibly have attracted that into their lives? There are many such instances. We cannot use one modality to explain the whole of us; but, we can try and get to know the whole story of us by tapping into our consciousness. The consciousness we came with from the beginning of evolution and the consciousness we became with the experiences we have had so far.
Our consciousness is constantly in flux. We can change it. We can become aware of it. And we can even empty it so that we can access that pure consciousness that exists without the experience. Yes, we really can. But, this is not a metaphysical lecture!
Today, I might identify with the hues of blue, shades of yellow and red poppies. This for some will mean they are blue yellow poppies; or that they like these. For others it will merely be a passing cloud.
All we perceive ourselves to be is simply that – a perception based on sensory input. We have a tendency of sitting on a perception and making it us so that we take on it’s shade to be our personality. We don’t need to. But, because the mind works on pre programming, it will keep the frequency fixed at whatever we focused on hard long enough to believe is us. We could create computers or even artificial intelligence because that’s what our mind is. But to rid ourselves of the hold of the mind on us, we rarely get a moment to look into, unless one feels an urgency to break free from “bondage” of how things should be, or how we are.
For a moment you might have received an epiphany about why you are you to be because you suffer from a fear of rejection, and then you even manage to trace this to a moment in your childhood or something someone said. Someone might use hypnosis; another meditation or shamanic cures. You then make the link and this link you believe to run across all the other kinks in your chain of life as the link to the kink!
Can you see how that might limit our perception and create a tunnel vision of who why and what we are?
We simply cannot afford to sit on any one modal of knowing the self; as long as we remain multifaceted, so will the means of access into the Self.
Perhaps all along you thought oh wow I finally got the answer to the whole of me; maybe you did, but only to a part of me that you could gain entry into with your then current state of consciousness.
Limiting the label definitions and conclusions gives us an openness to embracing; otherwise, we remain locked in a state we believe is who we are!