THE EGO

Our trip to enlightenment would be a lark if it wasn't for that ego we developed to deal with separation in this density. While we were still connected to source our ego served us well, by helping us differentiate self from the environment and it protected us, as we explored an unfamiliar world. When we lost touch with source, we began to depend on it to interpret and make judgements about our surroundings.

The ego began to have a life of its own; or, at least it thought so. The ego realized its dominance depended on you not realizing who you were. As long as the ego could keep you convinced you were limited to a body, it could stay in control.

The ego occupies that noisy part of the mind, the place where thoughts race around, the place where worry and fear live. The ego constantly stresses our separateness and enhances the danger of the space outside our bodies.

For thousands of years, the solution to the ego's dominance has been meditation, to learn how to quite this noisy part of the mind, and it is quite successful. However, now we have thousands seeking enlightenment and they all can't go to ashrams and receive spiritual guidance to relinquish their egos.

As individuals we have to learn as we go. The ego is very threatened at the idea of our seeking oneness. It fears losing its identity, when the ego panics it causes all kinds of stress. The more we are determined to grow, in our understanding of oneness, the more the ego fights back. Its aim is to make you feel as miserable as possible through self criticism.

One of the ego's favorite tricks is to seduce you into doing, saying, or thinking something and then torturing you later when it is successful. Later can be in five minutes, the next day, or months from now.

The solution, of course, is awareness; the more we observe the machinations of the ego, the less power it has. We can't fight it, we can only observe. Any reaction to it; just feeds it. Allow yourself to feel what the ego is inviting you to feel; but, do not try to figure it out. Feel the feeling and watch it fade without internal comment. We have accumulated pockets of negativity in our long sojourn on this Earth. Since we, now, yearn to wake up, these old programs arise to the surface. They can provide fuel for the ego, but if you can just experience the feeling, without comment, the ego will not be reinforced.

This is a very difficult time but, also, a time of great promise. It is easy to get discouraged when self-criticism keeps you from realizing how beautiful and magnificent you are. Yet the energy, that encourages oneness, is very high and we have a great deal of help at the spiritual level. When you find yourself bogged down by negativity ask your higher self for help, be confident, because help will be there.

You made your ego, but you are not your ego. You are an amazing being of light, here to experience and learn from living in a body, immersed in duality.

Focus on who you are; a perfect being of light. Unconditional love. As you experience who you are, the remembrance of the ego, fades in the background.

Love and Peace,  Gregg