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Being At Ease With Yourself LOP067

Published: March 11, 2019, 4:01 a.m.

\u201c\u2026from the standpoint of the ego, the universe is seen as the \u201cother.\u201d The ego concludes that this \u201cother\u201d is against it and, therefore, that I must struggle to survive.\u201d

The Tao of Abundance, Laurence G. Boldt

Are You Struggling in Any Part of Your Life?

Is your love life, career, or your life purpose a problem or are you at ease with who you are, and making the best of your life? Many clients come to me as a coach wanting to work on a creative endeavour. More often than not, there\u2019s something much deeper and more profound to the reason they\u2019ve chosen to work with me. It almost always has something to do with the ego.

It\u2019s not that a client has ever come to me and said, \u201cHey Darren, you know I\u2019m really challenged by my ego. It just keeps getting in the way and keeping me from getting what I want.\u201d That would be an interesting conversation!

The Ego is a Delicate Construct.

Ego is \u201cI\u201d or \u201cme\u201d. We first learn about the ego as babies when we are taught to recognize our name; to recognize \u201cwho we are\u201d at the level of owning or identifying with our name. Our naming is when we first learn about ownership and possessions. How else do we come to understand that we are a \u201cDarren\u201d or a \u201cKathy\u201d? We learn to own our name in contrast to, or in defence of everything \u201cother\u201d, everything that is outside of us and not who we are.

Another way of say that is, I identify as me, and what is not me is you, or something else \u2013 an other that I do not identify with or as.

Defence of the ego forces us to seek some construct to which we belong that demonstrates \u201cotherness\u201d as all that out there, against which we must defend ourselves. We seek to belong to a group of people, a family, a religion, a political movement, or an ideology that strengthens our ego identity and the need to \u201cpossess\u201d that belief or self-perception.

What is the Opposite of the Ego?

Listen to today\u2019s episode and find out how we can accept the ego for what it is without having to defend it at the expense of creating an \u201cother\u201d.

\u201cI exist as I am. That is enough.\u201d \u2013 Walt Whitman

\u201cEgo is no longer ego when you know there is ego.\u201d \u2013 Eckhart Tolle

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