Ego

This is a touchy subject among many. Many of us have a different perception of the ego, are you wrong? If the upset you then the answer is yes you are. Just because you got triggered and there is underlining trauma somewhere. Our ego is our reactive state of mind. When ever anyone reacts to an individual, this is usually coming from the ego or the shadow self. Now, this is something that every single human should learn to be at least aware of this part of us. Our ego is our defense mechanism from our inner child, or sel, from getting hurt. Even if that means reacting to the point where it will stop you from possibly getting hurt even worse. This is when we develop dark impulses.

A dark impulse, simply put. Is a habit that our ego has put into place to help bottle a situation, usually holds trauma, so we do not have to deal with it. Drug addicts, alcoholics, cigarettes, even caffeine etc. Truthfully, anything that we do on habit that is not good for any of our three bodies. Emotional, mental, or physical. And this goes for anything that actually changes or alters the natural state of mind. Emotional eating is something that most Americans actually do, and the reason for this is because the availability of food is easy. Not much effort is put into getting our food nowadays, which we tend to over buy, then we are sad or depressed we eat these bad foods that taste so good. Ice cream and banana cream pie is my weakness. But, these are foods we can get very easily and brings comfort to our emotional state of mind when it is required. This can go for any food. Usually, it is sweets or snack type foods. Chips, cookies, little snacks along those criteria. This also dives into instant satisfaction, instant gratitude or anything that may just be for the instant but has a lingering feeling of guilt or shame afterwards. But this is an awareness just on the dark impulses. Just take a look at the three emotions that we are born with anger, fear, or love. From the very moment of birth, we are scared coming into this physical realm. Then we get mad because we want food, sleep, or a change.

So, accepting our emotions is a good step in control ones thought process. Our thoughts are generated by our emotions, which will become muscle memory, then these type of thoughts will become automatic thoughts. These happen due to conditioning as a child and societal believes. When the individual starts to become more intimate with their emotions, they start to see where their own automatic thoughts may stem from. At this point, the individual is aware of their automatic negative thinking and is now in the works of changing that process to thinking positively. We still have to keep an eye on our emotions, especially when they come up randomly or we feel someone else’s emotions strongly. When we are not prepared to deal with these, we are more than likely to fall back into a reactive state rather than staying in a responsive state of mind. We can catch ourselves in the midst of the argument and realize your own state of mind.

Truthfully, our ego is something that needs to be worked on for our entire lifetime. We can have our ego in check, but if the individual is not careful, the ego may break those chains. Some times this happens even to the most educated men and women, spiritual leaders or whoever. The reason for this, is something that every single of us must, must remember. Is that we are human, that we do make mistakes. To allow those mistakes to happen, and just love yourself threw all of it. Again, the ego is our defense mechanism to our true being. Hug that inner child, they to are special.