**session #213**:
STELLA: When you say lose identity, I don't quite understand that, because I feel like in the past I had no identity and now I feel like I do have some identity. So I don't know. What identity?
ELIAS: You hold a perception of yourself. Each individual holds an identity of themselves. Although you hold belief systems at different times that you may lose your identity and not know who you are objectively, in reality you do not lose your identity. You always know YOU.
You always are familiar with your thought processes, and that unidentifiable element that you think of as you; your consciousness, your soul, your self, your feelings, your thoughts, all of these things you identify as you within this focus. You have held this from the time of entry into this focus.