When we look into the mirror, we notice that the body is changing all the time. We also know for a fact that the cells of the entire body change over a few months. This means that technically the body we had last year this time was completely different!
We notice this with emotions as well. We have a strong emotional response to something as soon as we experience it. But as time passes, we observe that the strength of the emotion to the same stimuli weakens. We like to call ourselves an angry young woman or an emotional man. But the fact is that our emotions change as well over time.
The same thing is with our thoughts. Thoughts entrench themselves into us quite strongly. And we feel quite definitely that we are a particular type of person. We may even like or not like the person that we think we are! And we build stories around these thoughts which confirm our biases and have a rigid view about who we are.
But again, these are merely a collection of thoughts. Nothing more than that! You are not your thoughts, you are not your emotions, you are not your body. Then who are you?
When we realise this truth, we know that we cannot define ourselves. And that there is nothing permanent and change is the only thing constant. As human beings, we like to categorise ourselves and put a name to us. We are polite or aggressive or a mother or a teacher or that we are afraid or confident.
But that fact is we change over time and that we can change if we want to. The sooner we realise this, we become liberated to becoming the human being we want to be.
Click on the audio link below to practise a short guided meditation.
Bell The Mind 
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