Understanding the Ego and Your Healing Path

Key Theme: Feeling Alone in Struggles

• Common feeling: My challenges are harder than everyone else's.
  • Anxiety appears worse than others.
  • Family dynamics seem more complex.
  • Personal choices involve more sacrifice.

The Ego's Role in Healing

• Ego Back Door: The ego acts up when we step into healing.
  • Definition of ego:
    • Not bravado or conceit.
    • Structures and paradigms of the mind.
    • Forms personality: thoughts, planning, judgments, criticisms.
  • Ego tries to protect us using judgments and criticisms.

Changes Trigger Ego's Defense

• Shifting beliefs signals the dying off of the ego.
  • Ego intensifies symptoms, creates doubt.
  • Raises fears of rejection, judgment, and lovability.
• Our protective mechanisms have been built over a long time, influenced by lineage and epigenetics.
  • Ego fears the unknown and new choices.

Dealing with the Ego

• Embrace and acknowledge the ego's presence.
  • Recognize its attempt to keep us safe.
  • Show appreciation but move beyond its advice.
• Conscious choice:
  • Simplicity in decision-making.
  • Does a choice nourish or deplete?

Encouragement for Reflection

• Identify where the ego is catching you.
• Clear layers to lessen ego's influence.
  • Hold the process with lightness and playfulness.
• Affirm the true essence and aligned choices.
  • Address the ego's grief in losing old ways.

Takeaways

• Reflect on your struggles and feelings of difficulty.
• Increase conscious awareness of the ego's interference.
• Embrace vulnerability and step into your power.

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