Thank you Mari for this. This is rather long but such a great explanation I thought I would share it with you on this Wednesday evening.. “Have you ever felt as though there were two opposing forces inside of you, each pulling in exactly opposite directions? This is not a problem, although it can certainly be quite disconcerting, but it is simply an experience of the Spirit vs. Ego battle going on inside all of us. Spirit simply loves life and people and is endlessly curious about exploring and experiencing the world. It is an adventurer, an explorer, a pioneer. This energy force is alive and free, creative, expressive, abundant, and playful. This part of ourselves guides us calmly and adeptly through new and challenging experiences. Its guidance doesn’t come from the ‘head’s thinking,’ IT is much more powerful, wise, clear, and knowing than the mind. Intuition, heart, inspiration, love, joy, and peace are associated with this energy. When we access IT, we feel warmth, serenity, centered, and connected to the world and others. Life flows effortlessly. We’re fulfilled, fully self-expressed, and every moment is a magic moment. When we live from Spirit we know all is well and life is a joy. Ego is more practical, cautious, judgmental, and protective. It wants to look good to others or, at least, avoid looking bad, even while it attempts to make others look bad. Ego likes to control, although it pretends that it doesn’t. It views the world as a potentially, if not inevitably harmful place, fears being hurt and exposed, and thus remains separate, isolated, and closed off from others. It blames, criticizes, compares, questions, and makes excuses. ‘Should’ and ‘shouldn’t’ are two of its favorite words. Ego energy looks for answers from its mind — although it often confuses reality with something made-up from fear. It is self-righteousness and holds a ‘better than attitude,’ protecting the insecurity that lies just beneath the surface. Living isolated within the confines of the body, ego mostly just wants safety and independence and being right. It fights to not hurt anymore, often ending up the cause of more hurting, both for itself and others. Spirit is the life force energy that is about experiencing, creating, expressing, and connecting in this world. Ego is a bodyguard or tour guide. Its job is to keep the physical body safe and guide spirit through the journey of life. However, it often oversteps its duties and responsibilities and makes too much of itself. Most people don’t realize the nature of these two individual forces and continue to struggle between the two energies. Sometimes it feels like we have split personalities but rest assured, this is all part of the very normal human design. The Ego is much more forceful when it comes to seizing control and thus plays a more dominant role in most people’s lives — often suppressing the True Self. For many people, Spirit shows up sporadically when we let go of our thinking minds, spend time in nature, engage in something creative, meditate, seek assistance, or approach death - our own or others’. Have you noticed as soon as you surrendered knowing, new kind of solutions or possibilities appeared? When you become more conscious about the nature of these forces within you, you can learn to access this all-knowing, wise, and powerful force more consistently. The result is a life with more peace, joy, love, abundance, and creative flow, and less stress, scarcity, and fear. Both Spirit and Ego are always there to access when you are clear about your choice to do so. And as human beings, we actually need both to exist. Since the Ego can be sneaky in its expression, it’s important to recognize its clever nature. I’ve included a list below of Ego characteristics and its Spirit counterpart. Separation is the common theme to each word set below. The Ego strives to keep you separate from the world, separate in relationships, and separate from your Spirit and its full self-expression, joy, and inner peace. It does this through resistance, restriction, blame, self-righteousness, and fear. The Ego also expresses itself as neediness, which is a form of separating from self (from your own access to God’s power) — believing that to be complete you need something or someone to be different ‘over there.’ • Mind vs. Heart • Accusing vs. Inquiring • Certainty vs. Mystery • Victim vs. Self-Responsible • Excuses vs. Results • Obligation vs. Inspiration • Resistance vs. Acceptance • Restricted vs. Freedom • Confusion vs. Clarity • Suppressed vs. Fully Self-Expressed • Worry vs. Anticipation • Stuck vs. Creative • Stressed vs. Peaceful • Frustrated vs. Resourceful • Protection vs. Vulnerable • Fear vs. Love • Apathy vs. Nurturing • Doubt vs. Trust • Scarcity vs. Abundance • Shut-down vs. Open • Shame vs. Acceptance • Apprehension vs. Courageous • Struggle vs. Flow Take the first word in each pair. Perhaps you already recognize how familiar they are to you — as it is for most human beings. Imagine living your life predominantly from separation, ‘shoulds’ and ‘shouldn’ts,’ confusion, restriction, resistance. How would that feel? Probably very familiar for many. According to David Hawkins, the author of Power vs. Force, it is how 83% of the population lives. Take the second word in each pair. Imagine living a life predominantly from joy, peace, love, creativity, freedom, and full self-expression. Hawkins states that only 17% of the population access this way of being, so, while it may not be the norm, it is possible, and available to all.” -- Jeanna Gabellini
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:33:06 +0000
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