Are You Your Mind ?

No. I am my Soul. I am THAT. My Soul is THAT. THAT is everywhere. Everywhere and everything are I am. Aham Brahmasmi.

No. Your mind has many components in addition to your self. There is memory, feelings, sense of pain, proprioceptive ability, sensory information, awareness both focused and background or peripheral, and the self itself has parts. There is the minimal self and the extended or narrative self.

An important thing to realize is that the narrative is both the non-verbal and the verbal ability to follow a story.

So not only you are not all of your mind, it is not clear which self or you you are asking about.

Buddhists say no. They say you are like the sky, and thoughts are like the clouds, they come and go, which is true. But I propose a new theory, we are whatever our mind is at the time of a thought. A fire is never the same from one second to the other, it has a general form and "identity", but at every moment it is what is at that moment.

If you are your mind then how can you be able to observe it and analyze its processes? Which part of you would then be observing your thoughts? Objectivity would be impossible. Same thing goes for the body.

The pheneomena of human awareness of our own individual being, our own thinking, our own feelings, belies the identification with any one of its apparent constituent parts.

We are neither our body, nor our mind, nor our thoughts, nor our feelings. We are consciousness or awareness.

firstly lests discss what your mind is, despite your cnsiousness theory, it is still a brain function.

so, since your mind is a brain function, your brain is part of yuor body.

so, your mind is part of your physical body.

further thought, when we examine and think that our body is outside of ourselves we do indeed seem to say, my body, my arm, my foot.

so, we need to question who is this "my" if body arm and foot is not part of it. the reality is though, that when we have mental problems we say " i have lost MY mind.",so, who is the my that lost a mind?

so, if we say, that mind is not me, then who am i.

this is an easy answer.

we are the total experience, we are our body, and individual parts of it are ours. so mind is ours, body is ours, foot and blood are ours.

we cease to be us whn we die, until then, you are you, you are recognized by both thought and body, so both are yours, as an outpour of your entirly physical self.

No. If I was, I would have more control over it. I can't stop it thinking, I can't change its moods very easily, and it gets me into trouble. One day I will lose it, so it is at best only a temporary loan.

I am not only my mind, but my body as well. I am a living soul, and if my body dies, then I become a spirit.

No. Somethings are better kept in there. Some i wish would manifest themselves so that i could be a better person.

Am I my toenail?

Am I my lower intestines?

Am I my brain?

It's part of me, but it isn't ME. What makes up ME is the specific organization of all of my parts, and how they function together.

no i follow my heart ia m free bird,