Category: Meditation, Ego Management

Training the Ego – 10 – More Insight on Recurring Negative Thoughts

10 – More insight on Recurring Negative Thoughts There can be many sources of repeating negative thoughts, the type I would like to discuss here are those that seem to have their own life and are brought about by severe breakdowns in a person’s character, often these seem to be another person talking to you …

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Training the Ego – 9 – Meditative Healing Journeys

Intuitive Healing Journeys through Meditation It is important to learn the ability to go on an intuitive healing journey while meditating. There are common issues people face in the form of fears that prevent or interfere with their true expression of self. An example I was recently giving advice about was the case of a …

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Training the Ego – 8 – Recurring Negative Thoughts

Recurring Negative Thoughts Once you have worked at being mindful for some time, you will become aware that there are some thoughts and feelings that you struggle to eradicate. These include anger, fear, depression, hate and various other negative thoughts and emotions that you would rather be free from. This is because most of us …

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Training the Ego 7 – Ego and Labels

7. Ego and Labels Ego works in a similar way with our memories of interaction as Internet search engines do with tags – web pages are tagged with a group of labels that make it easier to seek out common information based on looking up those labels. The major difference is that ego labels us …

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Training the Ego 6 – Working with Ego – Full Mindfulness

6. Working with Ego – Full Mindfulness Full Mindfulness As you work towards quieting the mind and increasingly study your thought processes you will find that you automatically start to become fully mindful and you will begin to work with ego in the way I am about to suggest. The Ego presents to you thought …

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Training the Ego 3 – Working with Ego – A mind without thoughts

3. Working with Ego – A mind without thoughts Now that I’ve laid out the basic principles of ego management it is probably wise if I look into the practicalities of working through this process, to give you an idea of some of the activities that you can do as practical exercises to help you …

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Training the Ego 5 – Living in the Now

Training the Ego – 5. Living in the Now An awful lot of people concern themselves far too much with the future or the past. Dwelling on these things often leads to anxiety or self-blame as one looks at past “mistakes” or future challenges in a negative light. Such thoughts are almost always undesirable and …

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Training the Ego 2 – Training your Ego

The first thing to understand is that ego is quite complex and therefore there is a lot to learn. This means that although I will tell you here the basics there are more advanced aspects of ego that might lead you to think that the training is not working. Also some aspects of ego are …

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Training the Ego 4 – Working with Ego – Starting to be Mindful

4. Working with ego – Starting to be Mindful   Mindfulness is the process of anticipating and choosing the right thoughts for you. A great many thoughts are learnt from others unwittingly and some of these can cause us to think or behave in ways which afterwards we decide are undesirable. Some of these thoughts …

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Training the Ego 1 – What is Ego?

What is Ego? There are number of interpretations regarding what ego is, so I am going to tell you my own interpretation, which I find easy to understand and useful. “Ego is an intelligent part of our conscious and unconscious mind that connects us to all self-learning functions, be they physical or mental, both simple …

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A Truth of Self

A Truth of Self As you work towards understanding self it is not uncommon for you to question the information that you are gleaning from your inspection of within. This is as it should be, you should always question the information you come across even when it comes from within. However, the reason why you …

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An Introduction to Meditation

An introduction to Meditation Meditation is typically one of two things, it can be a method of gaining deep relaxation, or it can be a method off focussing the mind on a topic, such as self introspection in order to lead one to find internal truths that were not obvious to the normal waking mind. …

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Guided Meditations

Guided Meditations Meditation is a way of relaxation, it can also be a way of self exploration and also, through guided meditations it can be a way of reprogramming self. As we travel through life, we can easily learn or pick up some bad habits of the mind, thought processes that are not conducive, all …

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Structure of Belief Systems

The Structure of Belief Systems In a previous post, I spoke about how important it was to have an open belief system that enables new belief structures and understandings to sit alongside those already there. In this post I’d like to cover how these beliefs work to constrain and often filter our understanding of the …

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The Role of Belief Systems

The role of belief systems Your world revolves around belief systems, belief systems are a critical and key part of life, they can allow a person to envisage new beliefs and understandings, but they can also constrain, and lead to avoidance of truth and also the misinterpretation of it. To any person seeking to find …

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Check Your Values: What Do You Value Over Happiness?

From our guest author – Holly Fox Before I go any further with the science behind the power of belief—we need to check your values. What we focus on we will perceive and what we usually focus on is what we value. What we value is what we find important. I think it is interesting …

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