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90. Your ego is not your enemy

Published: June 3, 2021, 10 p.m.

The Ego has a bad rap \u2014 it has become the villain of self-help.

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According to psychologists, if we don\u2019t have an ego, we would become mentally ill. We need it to mediate between the unconscious and the conscious. Your relationship with your Ego can turn into either an enemy or an ally.

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In other words, your Ego is not you, but we often completely identify with our Ego as Self. 

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Ego is a structure built of a lifetime of experience, disappointment, pain, love, excitement and connection \u2013 whatever we experienced in our childhoods, both good and bad.

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Our Ego is a curious beast \u2014 most of us don\u2019t realize its existence, yet we are under its mercy.

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So, this week we explore how to explore Ego gently and to shift it to its rightful place as part of our Being rather than the illusion that it is the whole of our Being.