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What should individuals focus on to lessen the influence of the ego?
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Clearing layers of ego influence with lightness and playfulness, and affirming their true essence and aligned choices.
What is a common feeling related to personal struggles discussed in the session?
The feeling that one's challenges are harder than everyone else's, including issues like anxiety, complex family dynamics, and personal sacrifices.
How can showing appreciation to the ego be beneficial?
Appreciation can help acknowledge the ego’s role in trying to keep us safe, making it easier to move beyond its influence.
What are some misconceptions about the ego according to the notes?
The ego is often misunderstood as bravado or conceit, but it actually consists of the mind's structures and paradigms, forming aspects of personality like thoughts, planning, judgments, and criticisms.
How does the ego act up when one starts the healing process?
The ego intensifies symptoms, creates doubt, and raises fears of rejection, judgment, and lovability when one steps into healing.
What does the term 'Ego Back Door' refer to?
The tendency of the ego to act up and intensify negative symptoms when a person begins the healing process.
Why does the ego trigger defenses when beliefs start shifting?
Shifting beliefs signals the dying off of the ego, which fears the unknown and new choices, thus it intensifies symptoms and creates doubts.
What are some signs that the ego is trying to protect you?
Judgments, criticisms, and increased anxiety or doubt when attempting to make positive changes.
What key question can help guide simple decision-making as suggested?
Does a choice nourish or deplete?
In what way should one approach the ego’s grief from losing old ways?
By acknowledging and addressing the ego’s grief with compassion and understanding.
What role do lineage and epigenetics play in the formation of the ego?
Protective mechanisms influenced by lineage and epigenetics contribute to the formation of the ego, which fears losing established ways.
How can one deal with the ego according to the session’s advice?
By embracing and acknowledging the ego's presence, recognizing its attempt to keep us safe, showing appreciation, and moving beyond its advice.
What is the suggested approach to making choices that help in the healing process?
Making conscious choices that are simple, and evaluating whether they nourish or deplete one’s energy and well-being.
What emotional states does the ego amplify in response to change?
Fears of rejection, judgment, and questions around one’s lovability.
Why is it important to reflect on personal struggles and feelings of difficulty?
Reflecting on struggles and feelings of difficulty helps increase conscious awareness of the ego's interference in one’s healing process.
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