The three Selves

Who really lives in our bodies and why they really love us!

Our inner child plays a huge role in who we are and how we approach life. Photo: Pexels

As I have mentioned a few times before, a person is not just a body. You know you have something inside you that makes you you. In fact, we are highly complex creatures.

We have feelings and emotions, and usually those guide us through life and make us act a certain way. A memory of how something made us feel might influence how we act in the present and the future. We carry wounds and trauma with us that might come to the surface again much later in life.

Sometimes we act out on what our brain tells us and sometimes we listen to our heart. We might suppress feelings and act accordingly in order not to get hurt and try to empathize with other people and do things we normally wouldn’t do because we know it serves this particular moment best.

But what most don’t know is that we’re not just someone. We’re not our brain, or our heart, or our body, or our emotions. We are actually made of three different selves. They are the base self, the conscious self and the higher self.

The Base Self

According to Dan Millman — he wrote about this in his book ‘Sacred Journey of the peaceful warrior’ — the base self is our unconscious part, the inner child. It acts irrationally and based on emotions.