When Ego Rears Its Ugly Head, Here’s What To Do.
When 9/11 happened, I remember how kind, open and loving we all were to each other. Strangers smiled at and spoke to other strangers. We all felt like one family. But those days ended pretty quickly, unfortunately.
Within several months, we were back to our old behaviors of ignoring each other or worse.
I’ve been visiting a major national fitness center for a number of years now. Most people in the gym are cold and unfriendly.
It doesn’t matter how many years you’ve been going there, most members will pretend you don’t exist. They get busy and look away as you approach so they don’t have to crack a smile.
It doesn’t help that the fitness center itself has cultivated a sterile atmosphere. Prominent wall signs prompt you not to judge anyone else and that’s a great reminder. But most people have conveniently translated that to mean they should just keep to themselves.
But when we were descending into Covid a few years ago, it changed completely… for a day. The last day at the gym for awhile, suddenly these same people were warm and friendly. They told me to take care and they’d see me on the other side.
Waking Up
Disasters and calamities have a way of waking us up for awhile.
In Kabbalah teachings they say this behavior is the cipher of Satan (pronounced Sah-táhn). In Kabbalah, Satan isn’t the lurking devil figure. It’s ego.
Christians call Satan ‘the enemy.’ And while evil energies and entities definitely exist, if we focus on them as the cause of our troubles, we disempower ourselves. It’s not always what’s outside of us that’s the problem. It’s what’s inside we have to deal with.
Do that and you can conquer anything.
Kabbalah has it right. Satan is relentless ego. It constantly works to keep a mind in its dark and negative fold. And it relentlessly works to regain control of a mind that begins to free itself.
I think I got this visual of Satan back when I was studying Kabbalah years ago.
The visual stuck in my head and it’s helped me to realize the simple way it works.
You see a clock on the wall. The challenging event happens at 12 o’clock. And in the early hours just after you’re still in a good place — your heart. You feel even, balanced, serene, open-hearted and loving.
The hour hand winds down a few hours and now the good feelings start to degrade. Ego’s at work stirring up thoughts that bring down your even loving state.
You start getting lazy. It’s what ego wants. If you give in, it has won. And it wins most of the time.
By the time the hour hand gets to the 12 again, you’re back in the comfort zone of the former known. You know very well the feelings of misery, sadness, anger, and resentment. You don’t like them but you know them. So you lazily lapse back into them.
And ego has you once again.
Entrenched In Ego-Mind
We’re all so entrenched in ego-mind, in order to shift to the heart it takes one of the two things. One is fleeting and the other is enduring.
- a catastrophe (fleeting)
- real and present self-modulation (enduring)
Sometimes a life catastrophe will nudge us to permanently shift but usually not. There just is no way to accomplish it other than deliberately doing all we can to shift into higher-minded thinking and being.
You can listen to audio recordings of self-improvement gurus and gobble up their books. This is good. It holds you in an ambiance of upliftment as long as you keep it going.
Through those books and audios you’re giving yourself the support you need. And though some people will say you’re looking outside yourself, essentially you’re not.
This is because…
We. Are. All. One.
There are other highly encouraging sources you can look to as well.
Yourself
See yourself as more than one entity — as three Gods or Goddesses. You probably are that anyway — you just haven’t realized it.
Now you’re self-inspirational.
Ask the many aspects of your Divine Selves to support and encourage you. Each aspect of yourself has another kind of gift to give you.
God the Infinite
Ask God the Infinite to help you be Its most perfect reflection. That’s not looking outside yourself. The Great I Am lives within you. And truly…
Ask and you shall receive.
A simple request and God the Infinite will most definitely oblige.
Your Celestial Guides
Call on your celestial guides and galactic brothers and sisters to lift you. That’s not looking outside yourself either. They’re all a part of you. And if you could hear them, they’d readily tell you that you’re a part of them.
You come from the future and the very place they reside where we are all one big family.
Integrating Ego and Heart
It isn’t easy to modulate our thinking and keep ego at bay. We naturally want to cast ego out. But what we must do is integrate it with the heart and our higher thinking mind.
I learned this little technique from Eckhart Tolle’s ‘The Power of Now.’¹ It’s really worked for me.
See the ego as a little mouse peering out of its mouse-hole. Look at the mouse knowing it’s your ego mind. Keep your eyes on it and it will scamper into the darkness it lives in. You should be free of ego thoughts pretty instantly.
Anything you look square in the eye will cower and run away. When I didn’t want boys throwing snowballs at me as girl, I looked them right in the eyes. Never once did they hit me. And I’ve done the same as an adult. You look the persons square in the eyes and they’ll not hurt you.
Confronted with the will of the soul, ego runs.
Ego is the consummate coward. You just have to show it who’s boss. It really is as simple as that.
Ego may be relentless but you must be more relentless. Live by this important life lesson and free your mind:
The one who persists longest wins.
And once you’ve won, the victory’s yours forever.
¹ Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. United States, New World Library, 2010.
Purusha Radha
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