Kate T Benson Podcast

Personal and universal identity or consciousness

There’s two metaphors for the difference between personal and universal identity or consciousness.The first metaphor is the idea that universal consciousness is an ocean, and that we’re all waves.In the second metaphor, your personal consciousness is a little droplet of water within the ocean, experiencing itself as separate from the fullness of the ocean of universal consciousness. What keeps us feeling like we're just a wave or just a water droplet is our personal story, the story that we use to describe who we are.

Developing Identity flexibility. A full length exercise

Your identity is your sense of who you are. It is made up of everything that you identify with. Of all the things that we identify with, the biggest are our stories. And we want to refine our stories to serve us, because if we don’t, then we can walk around all day long with ideas like I’m not good enough. And how we think about ourselves determines our relationship with everything else. so if we want to experience good things in life, we have to refine our stories to serve us. but folks can be fixed on keeping our story just as it is (we'll even argue with others that we're not good enough). and so we need to develop flexibility in our identity in order to refine our story. So to help with developing flexibility in yawls identity I created an exercise. This is also an abbreviated version so y'all can check it out. https://youtu.be/k4zBQsXP3Kw?si=9p4p38CDalDvmTWG [https://youtu.be/k4zBQsXP3Kw?si=9p4p38CDalDvmTWG]

Episode 1: Reframing Identity. Background on Identity

So many folks today are ready to experience enlightenment and would like to experience more good and less bad along the way to the enlightenment. And it turns out that we can experience enlightenment, and we can have more good and less bad, the same way… and that is by reframing our identity. The first 3 episodes explain what it means to reframe identity, whether for reaching enlightenment, or for experiencing more good and less bad along the way. This first episode gives background on identity.

Episode 2: More Good and Less Bad Along the Way to Enlightenment

So many folks today are ready to experience enlightenment and would like to experience more good and less bad along the way to the enlightenment. And it turns out that we can experience enlightenment, and we can have more good and less bad, the same way… and that is by reframing our identity. The second episode explains how to reframe identity to experience more good and less bad along the way to enlightenment.

Episode 3: Reframing Identity to Experience Enlightenment

So many folks today are ready to experience enlightenment and would like to experience more good and less bad along the way to the enlightenment. And it turns out that we can experience enlightenment, and we can have more good and less bad, the same way… and that is by reframing our identity. The third episode explains how to reframe identity to experience enlightenment.