Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it,

I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

- Parker J. Palmer, Writer, Center for Courage & Renewal

WHO am I?

This is a question that has occupied the mind of every human being that has ever been born into life. Even if they have not talked about it openly, written lengthy manuscripts or delivered TED talk speeches about, in the middle of turmoil, in that bottle neck of critical decisions in life, everyone has asked this exact question of themselves, whispered it in silence or shouted it out loud, pleading the heavens to give them an answer.

It is always the same: once you are liberated,

you are forced to ask who you are.

- Jean Baudrillard, french philosopher

The question of Identity is universal to all humans. It's especially unleashed in turmoil. We try to answer it ourselves, the scientists try to answer it, the philosophers, the mystics. Every one has an angle on the answer. And everyone is right.

Who am I

I am my personality - but I can still be me, if I change this up. I can become more open, less shy, more vulnerable.

I am my name - but I am still me without it. I can change it anytime.

I am my genetic code - but if you clone me, my clone is no longer me, per say.

I am my body - but I am still me if all the cell of the body regenerate, even if you transplant my brain into another organism, upload my consciousness to the cosmic web.

I am my brain - but I am still me you upload my brain patterns onto the web and discard the organ. Find me under the hashtag #bliss #being #human #woman #lover #mother #denisa. Still good ol'me.

I am my continuous flow of thought - but my memories can be redefined, my present perspective can be remolded, my future dreams can change. I am in essence still me without the apparent personal permanence.

This is where all empirical reason ends and where metaphysics takes over. Beyond reason, beyond the physics.

Perhaps, I am the seer that sees all of the above - I am the higher mind, the soul, the awareness behind all that I am aware of. I am that which is aware of my thoughts, actions, physical circumstances. I am that presence behind all senses and thought constructs. I am awareness. Jean Paul Sartre, Alan Watts, Krishnamurti, the Buddha all point to this as being the Identity.

What does this look like in practicality?

Sit for a moment, close your eyes and notice all the thoughts that arise. All that personal identity party. The endearing chatter of the physical mind.

Then release the thoughts as best as you can. They will keep arriving, but give them no particular attention, let them chatter like little children in the background.

Now feel the silent buzz, a constant presence behind it all, surrounding it all. THAT is awareness. THAT is the presence of my consciousness. THAT is me.

Everything else, they say, is perspectives designed, chosen, imprinted on us. The true identity of our being rests in that ever present awareness bathing all out thoughts and feelings and perspectives. If you take the awareness away, all you have is either death or infinity, a vastness into which you dissolve and no longer feel as an entity identity. In that place you are in the ONE Absolute, as the cosmic metaphysicians & mystics say.

So in this stage of my evolution, I choose awareness/presence as the basis of my identity. And the brilliant piece here is that this is the humming silence I share with ALL other beings - With my love, with my kids, with my cat, with the bird singing outside, with Elon Musk, with Madonna, with all of creation. We meet here, ALL of us. In this silent presence. We are one and the same consciousness basis.

Our true reality is

in our identity and unity

with all life.

- Joseph Campbell, writer, mystic

This is where we are ONE. And this feels awesome! Truly. This is the true meaning of ONE - in the identity realm. Infinity is a whole other ball game.

All of our personal identity and the physical manifestation that follows come from the particular perspectives we actively design from this Collective Presence/Awareness - from the silent hum.

“The Value Of Identity Of Course Is That So Often With It Comes Purpose.”

- Richard R. Grant, screen-writer, director

In Part II - we will dive into the blueprint, the cosmic signature that we each have, and how to design perspectives that will align us vibrationally so that this incarnated theme can come to REAL LIFE - what is called manifestation of our Highest purpose.

Here is a recommended AFFIRMATION SERIES on IDENTITY:

I am me.

I am my name.

I am my genetic code.

I am my body.

I am my brain and all the organs that nourish me.

I am my thoughts, my feelings and my perspectives.

I am awareness.

I am the unconditional love that rests in awareness.

I create from awareness. I create new powerful perspectives everyday, from awareness.

I have a blueprint, a cosmic signature that calls me everyday, from awareness.

I share this awareness with all beings on the planet and the cosmos.

I am not alone.

I am loved and supported.

I am awareness and I am love.

We are awareness and we are love.

Thank you for the READ!

So honored.

I am Dr. Denisa Rensen, the Founder and Curator of the blissDesigned MAGAZINE.

I work with Global Visionary Loving Innovative Future-Conscious Women as they align & design their lives for SIGNIFICANCE, IMPACT & true BLISS.

I am also Radical Longevity Expert & Anti-Aging Doctor based in Hawaii. An avid Designer & Poet.

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Photography: Megan Spelman

Abundance Designed - Part I - IDENTITY