The Ego is a concept which is used by many different teachers and systems and can sometimes have some obscurity to its meaning as a consequence.
Category: Training the Ego
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May 16
People don’t know themselves
People don’t know themselves, and therefore do not know their goals. But they look around and, seemingly, everyone else does, and they have all these cool goals, like making their first million, so those empty people, copy the goals of others, and start the life of a sleeping zombie.
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Apr 22
Thinking yourself happy
A short note explaining the difference between pessimism and optimism.
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Aug 03
Ego Death
Ego death is a term which has caused much controversy and misunderstanding in spiritual and psychological circles. Taken at face value, it may present the seeker with an impossible task. What is it, and how is it achieved?
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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 15
Heart Opening
The Human Illusion vs Integrated & Implemented Unconditional Love From our guest Author – Inanna Eanna There is a LOT of fancy vocabulary going around these days. So many people claim to have partly or fully integrated higher truths that they in fact never even fully have come to comprehend – it’s merely theory. Having …
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