We have been told over and over we are not who we think we are, which means we are not our body, not our thoughts, sensations, or personality, but that we are Spirit, we are Consciousness, we are a part of God, which is nice as a theory, but then, we don’t live as if that was true.
We live as if we were a personality, a body, a person born on a certain day, living in a certain location, doing the things that we do, and that has been our reality ever since we can remember. And we all do it, so we think that’s how life is, and that’s who we are.
But we were not born that way, we were born knowing we were Spirit just inexplicably (to the baby) finding ourselves in a reality different from the Reality of Spirit that we knew, having to learn how to survive in these circumstances, including operating a physical body we did not have before. And we were taught, or better said, hypnotized into the belief that we were say, Bob, separate from everything else that was around, and that if we did certain things, we got smiles and love and validation, and if we did certain other things we got frowns, no attention or even punishment.
Those, and many other beliefs are all programs we bought into so as to have a comfortable material life and it worked well, for a time, at the level of identification with the material self, but at the expense of forgetting what we knew when first born, which was Truth. It was necessary to learn to live where we found ourselves and we did that well, but the ultimate Truth is spiritual, not material, so now we need to reclaim what had been forgotten and honor the Consciousness we really are that is simply expressing itself as, and through, a material form called in this instance, Bob.
And Bob, every day and hundreds of times a day, reinforces this belief he has been hypnotized into, that he IS Bob.
If we wish that shift to take place, if we wish to stop living a life of pain, limitation and lack we need to hypnotize ourselves back into believing we ARE Consciousness, just temporarily expressing as Bob. With that identification firmly in place, we become Masters of our life where no adverse circumstance can shake us out of our belief. The road toward that is long and winding around many obstacles, but not longer than the one that led us into our identification with what is called the “false I”.
To start changing your identification, keep track, during the day, how many times you are in some way, in thought, word or deed, referencing the false “I”: Bob. It could help to start referring to yourself not as “I”, but in the third person, as “Bob”. Not “I am going to have lunch” but “Bob is going to have lunch!” While knowing You are Consciousness, aware of Bob who is going to have lunch!
