Locomotoring

Very recently, I read the book “When Breath Becomes Air“. It is a slim book written by a young neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi, during the terminal year of his cancer journey. What I heard is a doctor explore the question of identity – how it changes when significant health related events happen. He talks at length about his own identity, the one that is inseparable from his vocation, when he is weakened by cancer and can’t be the neurosurgeon any more. The book made me question how my own identity has shifted in time, with changes in my health after five decades of trodding on this planet. I have already lived longer than Paul, much longer. I am healthy. A little worn out perhaps, but who isn’t. Today, I invite you to join me as I undertake a body scan meditation, to observe this health-identity relationship.