Are You Your Thoughts? | What Is The Source of Ego? | Reflections On “The Power Of Now”
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Are You Your Thoughts? | What Is The Source of Ego? | Reflections On “The Power Of Now”
I have been reading personal development books for some years now. Last week I picked again the “Power Of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. This time I paid attention to exploring the source of ego and it’s identification with thoughts. Usually we tend to identify thoughts with our ego. This incorrect identification is the source of our pain. In the past I once tried to get rid of my thoughts through meditation. I still meditate, but my purpose is different. Having thoughts is a good thing; however, identifying with our thoughts is not.
Our thoughts are complicated mixtures of all of the influences in our environment and are linked to the collective mind of our culture, society, family, and friends. If we identify with our thoughts, we are witnessing the expression of the ego. As a result of this confusion (I mean this identification with thoughts), we develop the sense of our “I am” from what the thoughts are telling us. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the following whispers in our head: “You are a failure, bad things always happen to you, you are stupid.” Blah blah blah.
Well, when this internal dialog takes over your mind, you start having very low self-esteem and a bad opinion of yourself. This is because you believed your thoughts. As a result they got planted deep into your head.
When we are born, we are like a blank sheet of paper. Family, school, and society start writing things on this blank sheet. At the age of 7, we become the fully developed sum of all of our thoughts because at this age these thoughts become our beliefs. We have absolutely no say in this! The more we believe our thoughts as we age, the deeper they get lodged in our minds and the stronger our identification with the big story of ours.
In many cases people are bonded with hostile “thought entities. These entities are verbally abusive and start making your mind believe the stories they tell. They are perpetually attacking either you or others. Have you blamed someone else for being … (fill in the blank)? Did you tell them who they actually were? Me too… The thoughts entities actually love projecting onto others. There is a saying:
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
“Think outside the box”. What is the box? Well, it’s the identification with your thoughts! Your poisonous thoughts take all the space in your head. Feels tight! This is the unconscious conditioning with the heavy ego. Identification with thought creates our self-prison. Who would have thought!
So how do we break free? Breaking free from the ego means breaking free from identification with thoughts, not the thoughts themselves. Step back a little and create a space inside. This space is called presence. Now you know that you are not your thoughts. You are the awareness in which your thoughts come and go… This is the end of the ego and the beginning of awakening.
If you have a limiting belief from your childhood, your unique perception of reality becomes selective. You become extremely aware of the thing you believe in. If you believe that you are not deserving of any good thing, your reality actually attracts more negative “not deserving” things. If you believe that people are bad, more bad people will show up in your life. You attract them!
Are Thoughts The Source of Ego? Talk by Echart Tolle – simple and elegant exploration of our suffering.
Let us get practical. If you decide to start a new online business and have a belief that you are not good enough, your thought process might go like this: “If I fail, my self-image will be injured; therefore, I am not even going to try.” Not taking action has to do with deriving your identity from thinking. Even the thought of “I have failed” is a lie. “I am a failure” is even a greater lie.
Here is another way to look at failure: “I have learned something here. I have more experience and knowledge as a result of this failure; therefore, I am succeeding! “
Never believe the lies that your mind produces. Many people live with very hostile and abusive minds. Often it serves as motivation to get out and set themselves free. The beginning of freedom is when we realize that all problems are mind generated, but not world generated.
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