Sometimes when I’m moving through my day, taking care of business or just having a friendly conversation with my neighbor over the back deck, I hear this little voice pop into my head. And sometimes I want to yell at it, “Hey! Mind your own business!”
Who does she think she is anyway, this little voice? Well, to listen to her tell it, she’s my guide, my teacher, my critic, my boss…it’s like she doesn’t know when to quit. Who the heck is she? I’ve decided she’s my ego. She likes to make sure I hear her. Am I telling you I hear voices? No, not exactly.
Your Ego Wants To Tell You…
Our egos always have something to say, don’t they? Mine likes to point out all the times
I failed, or didn’t live up to a promise, or the times I disappointed someone I care about. I know that focusing on those things will only make me feel low energy emotions, so rather than allowing my ego to guide me down that path, I plug into my conscious guidance system and release the struggle and low energy emotions.
If you’ve visited this blog before, you might recall the conscious guidance system and the unconscious guidance system post from several weeks back. Our egos are a mechanism of our unconscious guidance system, the one that is reactive and fear based, and operates to protect us…to help us survive. So pointing out my failures could protect me from taking a risk and trying something new. But if my focal point is on truly believing, knowing, that I can’t do something I probably won’t try at all. It will be easier to quit before I even give it a try. So in the end, I could prove my ego right.
Growing up I also heard messages that became part of my subconscious, part of my story. When I think about the negative messages, I can feel myself sliding into low energy emotions like sadness, regret, struggle. My unconscious guidance system kicks in and suddenly I feel connected to those messages that were so hurtful. I believe them! Wow, I probably won’t ever “be that thing I wanted to be”…I probably won’t ever “go those places I wanted to go!”
Focusing on Postive Emotions will Quiet the Ego
No matter where the negative messages come from, it’s important that we release them and change the channel when the appear in our frequency. One of the Rich Mind Life Strategies that I put into practice is focusing on a time when I was successful, or achieved a goal. Focusing on my unique abilities, skills, and personal victories helps me to remove my attention from that nagging little voice in my head.
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I agree with all of this, however I am affraid to dwell on much of anything because it always seems to create it. I figure I have enough trobble with life the way it is, and all attraction brings along with it things you don’t see and probably won’t want.
Life is full of surprises, I hate surprises being surprised getting tricked even if something looks great, you will find that it’s not so.
Thanks but I can hardly wait to not be alive, not feel, silence is golden and I figure that not being alive will be too.
Ego is the biggest obstacle for one in achieving the his or her goals. So we have to take control of the ego instead being controlled by it.
Dr Wayne once said that do not associate your-self with ego, don’t let it to define you through your achievements, possessions, reputations, your physical body and your view of separate-ness (from god and your heart desires).
Never let ego kicks in and sabotage you.
I call my inner critic Susie. She can be quite busy pointing out my flaws and trying to sabotage my goals at times. Once I get firm with her and tell her to sit down, however, she goes to her corner and sulks. I know she’ll be back at it again one day, but since she won’t ever go away for good, I’ve learned how to control her when she shows up.