3 NOTS You Should Have Learned by Kindergarten
There are three truths that every human should have learned the moment they could understand words.
Three truths that would have saved you years of confusion, pain, anxiety, self-doubt, and emotional turmoil.
Three truths that would have explained your inner world long before the world taught you to mistrust yourself.
These are the 3 NOTS — the three things you are not — and once you understand them, your entire life makes sense in a completely new way.
Why These Truths Matter So Much
Your life has been shaped far more by what you were taught to believe about yourself than by anything you ever experienced.
And for most people, those teachings were wrong.
You were given a false identity, false expectations, and false explanations for your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
Without meaning to, the adults around you passed down their own misunderstandings.
The 3 NOTS undo all of that.
They reveal what you truly are — by revealing what you never were.
NOT #1 — You Are NOT Your Mind
This is the single biggest misunderstanding on Earth.
You were never taught that the voice in your head is not you — it is a pattern generator.
Your mind is a tool for processing information, predicting outcomes, storing patterns, and responding to stimuli.
It is brilliant at survival and terrible at truth.
When you believe you are your mind, you become trapped inside every fear, thought loop, story, doubt, trigger, and insecurity it produces.
When you realize you are not your mind, everything shifts.
Your mind becomes something you observe, not something you obey.
Freedom begins here.
NOT #2 — You Are NOT Your Body
Your body is a physical interface for experience, not your identity.
You were never taught this.
Instead, you were conditioned to believe that your worth, value, attractiveness, safety, belonging, and potential all depend on the form you temporarily inhabit.
You were taught to chase approval, avoid judgment, and modify your behavior based on how others might respond to your appearance.
But your body is not you — it is something you live through.
When you detach identity from form, you reclaim power, confidence, freedom, and presence.
You stop trying to perfect the body and start inhabiting the being.
NOT #3 — You Are NOT Separate
This is the most important NOT of all.
You were taught — implicitly or explicitly — that you are a separate, isolated individual disconnected from others and from the greater intelligence of life.
This belief is the root of fear, loneliness, insecurity, comparison, and scarcity.
In reality, you are an expression of the same consciousness that animates everything.
Separation is an illusion created by the mind’s narrow lens.
When that lens widens, connection becomes obvious — not as a belief, but as a lived experience.
When you realize you are not separate, the world stops feeling threatening and starts feeling alive.
How These Misunderstandings Shape Your Life
Believing you are your mind makes you anxious.
Believing you are your body makes you insecure.
Believing you are separate makes you afraid.
Together, these misunderstandings create:
- constant self-doubt,
- emotional reactivity,
- comparison and competition,
- shame and pressure,
- loneliness,
- confusion about purpose,
- and difficulty finding inner peace.
Not because you are broken, but because you were never given the correct identity.
The Mechanic Beneath the 3 NOTS
Here is the mechanic: your true identity is awareness — the consciousness observing the mind, inhabiting the body, and expressing through form.
When awareness identifies with mind or body, suffering begins.
When awareness returns to itself, clarity begins.
This is not a belief.
It is a direct experience anyone can rediscover.
What Life Feels Like After You Learn the 3 NOTS
When you finally understand the 3 NOTS, your inner world shifts in ways you couldn’t imagine:
- Your mind stops overwhelming you because you no longer mistake it for yourself.
- Your body stops defining your value.
- Your emotions stop feeling like threats.
- Other people stop feeling like competitors.
- Loneliness dissolves.
- Confidence rises naturally.
- Presence becomes effortless.
- Life feels more spacious, peaceful, and connected.
This is what it feels like when you finally understand who you truly are — and who you never were.
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