Inauthenticity: Identity Wants confuse what we are

[Excerpt from Unachievable]

The other day a client said to me, “I just want to understand myself. I just want to be true to myself.” It led to an interesting conversation about what the self really is and what it means to be true to it. What are we? Are we the beliefs about what we are? Are we the behaviours, actions and words? Are we our habits? Our values? Our opinions? Are we the experience of being us? Our tendencies and preferences? Our personality?

It is amazing how through this work every single one of those ‘authentic’ aspects of us can change dramatically. What we thought was intrinsic to us turns out to be a temporary expression that falls away or shifts as the Identity is held differently in the mind.

What does it really mean to be authentically us? Ironically, there is more and more authenticity as that illusory middleman (or woman) – the separate self becomes less and less convincing. As the illusion fades all that remains is the absolute and infinite consciousness, beingness, aliveness and intelligence – animating, exploring and observing a relative world of form.

Identity Wants create confusion about what we are.