A Better Understanding of What Ego Really Is
The biggest confusion for people who get into spirituality is with regards to their “Ego”. It’s common for spiritual people to consider Ego as negative; but in Truth, it’s not Ego that’s negative but thoughts based in fear that are negative.
Ego is Ego; it’s not negative or positive. What you “think” determines whether you are aligning with negative or positive. The way to see Ego is that it’s the structure in your brain that gives a “person” identity; it serves a very practical purpose for physical interaction of humans.
Bashing your Ego is just a movement of “negativity” in you, it’s not spiritual or “pure”, it’s just a negative pattern, and if you sense it you will know that it’s just “violence” within you.
When you truly become rooted in the Truth of your being ... who you really are spiritually ... you will not find any problem with your Ego and you will allow it to play the “practical” part that it’s supposed to play in the movement of physicality.
What is needed is that you stop identifying yourself as the Ego, and know yourself to be the “wholeness” or pure consciousness and then allow the Ego to do its part in the play of physicality.
Get rid of negativity, not the Ego:
The root of suffering is identification with negativity/fear based thoughts. If you think low of yourself, it’s negativity, if you think low of others, it’s still negativity. Is it Ego that is thinking low of others? No, it’s just a negative thought pattern.
Don’t confuse a negative thought pattern with Ego. The Ego is simply a structure of identity in the brain, and even the most enlightened person has this identity ... or he/she would stop responding when their name is called. Imagine that?
So don't spend too much time talking about the Ego, and focus more on letting go of negativity ... because it’s the negative thoughts that create suffering for you and create negative realities in your life and other peoples lives.
A person who is rooted in an ongoing positive outlook can be considered to have a “positive Ego” and a person who is rooted in negativity can be considered to have a “negative Ego”. So if anything, you might want to move towards having a positive Ego so that you are more in alignment with life. Everything has polarity ... even ego.
The Ego’s unique preferences have a huge value:
You are unique as an expression of universal consciousness and your uniqueness is reflected in the preferences or desire that your physical being comes up with. This uniqueness is what your brain/mind/heart come up with ... the desires based on its unique natural conditioning/external conditioning (the structure of personal Ego).
Each of your desires have a huge value because it causes expansion in life and you act as a co-creator of new realities. So your Ego has a very important part to play in the game of co-creation. The Ego desires new realities through its preferences and the universal consciousness brings forth the manifestation of these realities and keeps them in place. We are all One and connected to universal consciousness.
So give up on the negative loop of trying to ditch your ego, and allow yourself the freedom to express your uniqueness through your desires/preferences. Life is not here to condemn you for your desires, it’s here to embrace all of it and bring it to manifestation. Get in charge of ego. Let Spirit lead.
You are totally loved by life just the way you are, it has no conditions for you, it’s is totally appreciative of the value you provide through your uniqueness – it’s important that you realize how valuable your presence here is. You are an intricate piece of the entire puzzle.
Just a thought ...
~Justin Taylor, ORDM., OCP., DM.
My thanks to Calm Down Mind
