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Ego everyone is taking about?
Usually when we hear "Ego" we may think of a the "me" component or even the personality of someone, it literally translates to "I" in Greek, however ego in my opinion expands further than that. We may think of Ego as something like self-centered behavior or image.
Well ego fundamentally is at least to mine and other coaches opinion a matrix of beliefs, essentially it's a group of often stubborn ideas of how the world is supposed to be.
They provide both a sense of safety, security and stability to be able to have such ideas solidified and stable.
(Notice how I use those words to build a holographic idea about what I wish to convey, more on that in a future post)
Such ideas which are settled we can beliefs and a world-view belief at call "Paradigm".
Our paradigm therefore tried to stay stable, consistent and labeled as THE "truth".
Reality however is flexible and we often may confused our truth with the real truth such humans often barely grasp.
Reality is a constant stream of data, data are categorized with the associating component being similarities and then this categorized data sets we label as "information".
A group of information pieces can be a belief and so on.
In my opinion when someone is defending their ego, they usually defend a group of beliefs or a core belief is trying to shield itself from being challenged, often to extreme or irrational extents.
Even though it seems irrational, it has its own logic, a belief is a structure of data and as long as it makes sense to its own paradigm, it is logical (at least for itself and is stable enough to be kept solid).
How to tip-it-off you may ask? Well its as easy as Socrates' Own world view on how to challenge people's Ego (something that if I recall currently got him into the death sentence after having challenged powerful men's Ego to the point of irritation like a fly buzzing around someone's head).
Regardless of the sad tale, he left behind some very wise formulas and tools essentially on how to do that very process.
Ego is challenged when there is a hole found in its own logic, thats one take, however we can challenge and melt it down when we use either emotion or (most importantly) question it (if its our own Ego we are willing to change).
Yes, all we have to do is reset it, say "what if" the opposite were true (based on this and that, fill in the blank here).
To summarize therefore, Ego is a matrix of information bundled together into a paradigm, which uses its own world view to shield itself or even trying to manifest itself into reality by a person's mind (if that idea is a structure in the mind-brain then it can be manifested by using that person, hence the "Demons" of the old concept).
Ideas however can also be nice things, so we are only called to choose consciously which one we see as beneficial, not because of fear but because of passion, fear is the big misunderstanding here, thats because fear fuels ego which is more defensive and destructive.
So as long as we are conscious of these processes, we can make a difference and be better.
I often hear the phrase by specific schools of thought about "Killing" the Ego, but in my opinion Ego is there for a very good reason, that matrix of information, it is our sense of the world, even if its not always correct.
All those spiritual or esoteric schools of thought are trying to do is to rebuild an Ego that is striving to reach a divine-qualities Ego, Everything in existence has an Ego and is an Ego, thats because everything is data and can be information. ⚛️
This of course is one of the infinite number of world-views or ways to make sense of the world, I can use any of those to help convey understandings about reality.
All we require therefore is to have a consciously cultivated and sustained Ego, it is what I call a "Healthy Ego". 🙏
A Flexible Ego built with the Ethics and Principles which are there with the intention of the good of the totality in Mind is a Healthier Ego, a "correct" Ego does not exist, it is always relativistic.
We have all we need to structure ourselves in a way by which everyone and everything may benefit.
I feel like talking more about Ego in the future as this topic is very much in the core of any esoteric conversation, Ego should not be simply a label to use as a scapegoat, it is a calling for reality-view.
Ego signifies our personal beliefs of what "is" and what "isnt" acceptable or even true, real or truth. 😶
Thanks for reading so far and have a very much wonderful rest of the day! 🙏
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