Experiencing as ongoing accomplishment in the body-based field is always accompanied by a latent sense of the most trusted foundational self. This appears to be a role, like that of prime minister, say, or pontiff, rather than a clearly defined character or putative 'small self'. It is a role that is filled by various different metaphoric originations of attention which change episodically during the course of each day depending on salient cares. The point is how natural this feels, as if the chair it occupies is labelled with 'doubt stops here', and how much on this purely structural basis it radiates a convincing but illusory sense of unity. You might not like it, being as it is often enough invested in negative affect, but you really don't care to question it, preferring to set it to work in search of remedies. Surprisingly the ability to observe its comings and goings with its gimcrack retinue of notions does exist, a witnessing which it cannot lay hold of, and which lies just beyond its reach, and to which it has only an incidental relationship. Loosening the hold on it is a matter of attention gaining its 'sea-legs', the ability to stay upright while everything else is moving around.