When Was the Last Time You Asked Yourself, “Who Am I?”

A friend and I decided to attend a meditation event hosted by Meditation Toronto, “The Night Before New Year’s Party.” I was amazed by the number of people who attended, and most of them were in their twenties, which surprised me. I commented to my friend that so many people attended during the holiday season because they must be searching for more meaning in life.

We attended because we thought it would be mostly meditation, and I enjoy meditating, but the talk took up most of the time. I enjoyed myself though. The speaker, Yoga Master Balakilya indicated that there is no difference between one day and the next, and an old year and a new one. That made sense to me. Think about the popular quote, ”The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,” attributed to both Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. So if you do not make concrete changes, the old year will be more or less like the new – the same-old, same-old.

The Yoga Master suggested that a place to start would be to ask yourself, “Who Am I?” Because of our roles and responsibilities in life, the first things that come to our minds when answering that question would be: Mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, male, female, Canadian, American, Australian, British, African American, Caucasian, Chinese, CEO, advertising executive, writer, singer, soccer player and so on. If you stripped away all your roles and responsibilities, what would be left if you probed deeper.

Now, how would you answer, “Who Am I?”

For those interested in meditation, one of the three we did was the Gauranga, click here to try it.

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