Identity
Our sense of identity is deeply immersed into our belief systems, and how we identify with our Self, with people, with our surroundings and our sense of worth. Our sense of identity places a worth on our value systems and so to have strong foundations, it is important to understand how we for our identity.
We begin to form our identity from before we can even remember. We are babies and toddlers, tiny little innocent beings absorbing the attention and immediate care of our caregivers without any interpretation or question. We simply accept with a inbuilt completeness in the people in our life and in our environment.
Our sense of identity shapes how we see ourselves, and it shapes how we relate to our relationships, including that of our sense of home and place.
Having a strong sense of identity, of who we are, cements our sense of belonging, as well as the understanding that we have a path, or specific purpose designated to carry out over our life time. And it is chosen for us.
And so we have to be taught how to relate to our Self by our caregivers. Through language and touch and the senses we are open to observing the interconnectedness of our family dynamics and how we fit into a bigger community.
Understanding our Spiritual nature locks us into an assured sense of trust so we learn to identify with our natural qualities, gifts and character traits.
We see the child, but seeing the child’s spirit helps them form a strong sense of identity to feeling connected on that deeper level.
When we are taught to identify with the external world only that is when a child begins to lose touch with their Self and sense of inner truth. And struggles to trust and believe in how to listen to the intelligence that is always moving through them.
Western socialised ways of living have fallen away from the deeper meaning of the word identity. This false sense of identity with the external world is a very unsustaining and shallow thought system that alters the way we value our self, as well as the way we appreciate life. It disrupts the way we love, care, support and speak to one another.
Our false sense of identity becomes rooted in fear, judgement and many other self sabotaging beliefs.
It is an upside down, back to front way of thinking we can change by continuously finding all the resources available to us to help us return over and over to our spiritual nature, and our natural flow of trust and self belief.