‘WHO AM I?’
Newsletter February 2026
How to be here? How to be really present?
When I was in school, each morning when the register was taken, we all had to say ‘here’ or ‘present’. I am not sure that I ever was really present, as often I was looking out the window ‘brought back’ by a teacher calling my name!
Does a name help us be present? We are not our names. I have had at least three names so far in my life, yet the ‘I’ that notices these things is still the same. Still being the operative word. In the STILLNESS.
When the inner chatter stops and the space expands and I allow myself to be STILL. The inner witness seems to smile.
The ‘I that I AM’ watches all that arises and knows that ‘This too will pass’. The good, the bad and even the ugly will dissolve into the void, the void being the past.
In this moment NOW is the only time we can be HERE. The past has gone. The future is only a breath away. To be fully present, fully here, we can only ever, in less than a split second, choose to be conscious, if not we fall down the crack between the last moment and the next.
We chose forgetfulness before we were born. Overcoming this amnesia is perhaps the challenge we all decided to enable us to become fully human.
I have listened to and read countless NDE stories. It seems that almost dying, and experiencing ‘The Other Side’ transforms the person’s life. Also some people have taken Plant Medicine to help them ‘SEE’. How can we without such extremes really KNOW who we are?
‘WHO AM I?’ I believe that this is a process of unravelling: Courage to let go of what I am not. My small self wants to hang on but in those times of Stillness, my True Self knows that boundaries can disappear and I can BE HERE, NOW, totally PRESENT, then ‘I’ can merge into All That THere Is.... LOVE
Wishing You Well