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  Catherine Hedrich

Identity Less is more

Identity Less is More

6/6/2018

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As I clean out the last of my papers and photos in my home office, I realize how difficult it is to let go of the last vestiges of what we, as a western society, refer to as our "identity". 

From the collection of business cards accumulated over decades of employment to the images of past homes, relationships and travels, these snapshots of past human activity have the ability to place us right back into those moments within our minds. It is a powerful method of time travel. It has both the capacity to make us smile or regret some of our past decisions.  Sri Vast warns us that opening a window into our memories allows for all feelings, good and bad, to breeze into our present moment. This exercise of release is a two edged sword that must be done with extreme awareness and kindness towards one's self.

I find it interesting that we have evolved from a nomadic lifestyle, connected to our natural environment with almost no possessions, to that of a consumer society of hoarders, who are renting storage space to house the overflow of our disconnected and lonely identities. This is what our "stuff" represents for the most part, a physical reminder that we have lived a life rather than the inner peaceful balance of a life well lived.

This is why we are currently experiencing a counter-culture of minimalism and tiny homes. We are now seeking to spend more time experiencing the multilayered beauty of the human form on this planet rather than flaunting the illusion of a success driven marketed image of personal identity, which has no soul.

Identity less is more.

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    • Mother's Day 2020 Manifesto
    • What is Freedom?
    • Letter to My Heart
    • Accepting Supreme Responsibility
    • Search For Meaning
    • This is Me
    • A Welcoming Community
    • Behind the Headlines
    • Moonwalk
    • God is a Verb
    • Heart to Heart
    • Importance of Play
    • The Heart of Math
    • Peace Pilgrim Revisited
    • Chasing Success
    • Message in a Book
    • Steve Jobs: The Lost Vision
    • Your Hero's Journey
    • Cracked Open Buddha
    • Your Personal Guidance System
    • My Universe
    • Into the Aleph
    • Be the Change
    • Me, Myself and I: Sticky Stuff
    • Paranormal: The New Normal
    • Beauty in Fractals
    • Life is a Mystery School
    • Self-Love and the Butterfly
    • Spirituality and Singularity: To Be or not 2b
    • Multidimensional Travel
  • Experienced
    • When Fighting Windmills, Remember Who You Are
    • Expansion and Contraction
    • Simply Showing Up
    • Back Pain Teaching
    • Body Image
    • Be the Stranger
    • Parent Rehab
    • Life is a Fractal
    • Soul Pilgrim
    • Semi-retirement: The Untold Story
    • Conversation from the Other Side
    • Transforming I to Eye
    • Sharing Your Experience
    • The Book of Life
    • Meeting my Higher Self
    • Living in a Fort
    • Calling all Angels
    • Family Beyond the Veil
    • Becoming the Tree: Oneness
    • Manifesting Maya
    • My NDE
    • Messenger: Student and Teacher
    • Open Channel
  • In Conversation
    • The Importance of Being Human
    • The Day the World Ran out of Toilet Paper
    • Do I want to be happy?
    • Go With The Flow
    • What Does Freedom Mean To You?
    • Identity Less is more
    • Rethinking Astronomy
    • Dream Your World
    • Clueless
    • Living with Cortana
    • Techno Future
    • Love, CERN and Burning Man
    • Sing Your Song
    • What if...
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    • The Disappearance of Privacy
    • Beyond The Story of "I"
    • My Latte Meditation
    • Phone Calls From Heaven
    • The Great Debate: Fate vs. Free Will
    • Everything is Spiritual
    • Collect Experiences not Debt
    • Observing Territorial Control
    • The 3rd Way
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    • STOP: The Gift of Time
    • Drink to Your Health Naturally
    • Francis's Awakening in his Own Words
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