Who were you yesterday? Take a moment to think about the following:

• who you were
• what you were doing
• why you were doing it
• how you were feeling
• how you were behaving

So what did you come up with? Did you find that easy or hard? To be honest it doesn’t really matter what your answers were to those descriptors because what does matter is who you will be today.


We are not who we were yesterday. Indeed, in each new moment we are not who we were just a moment before that! We cannot be. Our bodies are changing all the time, as is the world around us. This means that our experiences, every single one of them, also affect us so that we are different from who we were previously.


The reason for these rhetorical questions is to remind you that you can be who or whatever you want at any given time.


Remember when you were a child, you probably dressed up and “played” at some point. Perhaps you had a dressing up box too – we didn’t but I wish we did! Anyway, if you think back, or actually watch young children dressing up, they really take on the roles of who they’re pretending to be. For that few hours of play, that child really is “Superman” or “The Doctor” or “Wonder Woman” and so on. The thing about these roles as you get older is that the more you “play” at the role, the more you actually become it. You are teaching yourself to behave in a particular way.


The thing with us as we get older and play out different roles is that forget that we can take off the particular costume and either be someone else, or just really be ourselves. By that latter statement I mean the authentic, loving, compassionate, forgiving, understanding, and lots of other positive “ings” – because that’s who we really are. Soul consciousness which is just a part of The All That Is.


We also need to remember that the others are really not the roles they play – they also are Consciousness incarnate. The Ego would have us believe the roles we and others play to keep us in a place of stagnation and fear. You know that the little girl in the fairy costume is still the little girl you know and love even if she is “being a fairy” right now. So too are you the loving Soul underneath the role of “grumpy person” that you may sometimes choose to be.


It’s important to remind ourselves that we can be whoever or whatever we want to be. Our past only restricts us if we allow it to.


Knowing that you are not the person you were yesterday, who will you be today? What do you want to feel? What will you do to make yourself happier and more in touch with who you really are? You are Soul Consciousness – will you choose that or will you allow the Ego to choose a role for you? Whatever you choose, remind yourself that, in any given moment, you can always choose something different.