Who Are You Really?

What makes you You? – is it your body, mind, thoughts, actions – Who actually are You?

Are you your body?

It’s often said, in circles that contemplate such matters, that you are more than the physical body – arguably perhaps you are a traveller in the physical body for the duration of your lifetime: or even this one of your lifetimes.

Is the physical body all that you are? Is it what makes you … You?

Are you your Breath?

When the breath leaves the body at the end of this life are the cells that remain there still you? Without the breath – prana, chi, lifeforce – call it what you will: if without it the physical body is no more than a bunch of cells, is that force who You are?

Is You carried in the breath? Is the life force carried in the breath to the physical body the thing that links you to your thoughts, emotions, intentions – is that energy medium the thing that makes you You?

Are You your thoughts?

Is You contained in the thoughts that you have – the workings of your mind? Are those thoughts real and when you are gone, where do those thoughts go? Are they contained in the memories you make – and more particularly, that you share? There is an argument that those who create memories through connection – art, music, family for example – live on through that medium. Is your legacy who You are?

Are You your emotions?

Are your emotions you? Or are they simply passing visitors? Emotions arise within and can take hold of the body and mind – but are they more than a part of your experience? It is easy for those emotions to take over – perhaps to allow then to become your identity. But are You your emotions?

Who Are You Really?

Does it matter how you spend you time in this lifetime if that time is fleeting and in reality, many of us simply come and go with so little realisation of who we actually are? The best I can see is that we are those we connect with. The memories we make and share. The good – and bad – we do in our world. The mark we make is who we are. To connect seems to be vital – perhaps even everything. To connect with our Earth, to connect with Ourselves, to connect with those around us. When all said and done, it’s what you leave behind that makes you You.