Do you usually answer this question with your job title, marital status, particulars about your family, where you live or your hobbies?
Are these things really you?
What if you had none of these things, what would your answer be?
If you had no job, no partner, no family, no fixed address and no hobbies - who would you be?
We all surround ourselves with people, objects, places and situations that we think give us joy, purpose and contentment but do these things really define who we are?
So who are you really?
Using an explanation Kit Campbell gave on Extreme Health Radio, consider the statement "I think with my mind."
If you break this statement down "think" is a verb, something you're doing, "my" is a preposition that shows ownership and what you are thinking with, and "mind" is a noun, an object, a name of something.
So what is the "I"? What is this "I" that we begin many sentences with, the "I" that witnesses the thinking mind? Who is the "I" behind your thoughts, your feelings and your actions?
Is this"I" the real you?
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