17/10/2026
THE FALSE IDENTITIES WE CARRY FROM THE PAST.
In yogic philosophy, Avidya is the ignorance that causes us to mistake who we truly are for who we believe ourselves to be.
It is the false identities we build from our past experiences, our wounds, our conditioning, and the stories we have learned to tell ourselves.
Perhaps you became the strong one because you once felt unsafe being vulnerable.
The people pleaser because love felt conditional.
The perfectionist because you believed you had to earn your worth.
The one who stays quiet because your voice was once dismissed.
Over time, these responses can become identities. We begin to say, “This is just who I am,” without recognising that these versions of ourselves may have been formed to help us survive, belong, or feel accepted.
But what helped you survive your past does not have to define your present.
Avidya invites us to question these deeply rooted beliefs and look beyond the conditioning of the mind.
You are not every label you were given.
You are not every wound you carry.
You are not the role you had to play to be loved.
You are not the person you became to protect yourself.
Beneath these layers is the deeper self — the awareness that can observe your thoughts, your patterns, and your changing identities without being confined by them.
Healing is not about rejecting who you were. It is about meeting that version of yourself with compassion, understanding why those identities formed, and gently releasing the belief that you must remain them.
Who would you be if you no longer needed to be who your past taught you to be?
Perhaps freedom begins when we stop trying to become someone new and start seeing ourselves beyond the illusions we have mistaken for our truth. 🤍
