Healing Place Therapy Services, LLC

04/27/2022

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12/03/2020

Our ego creates stories within our mind in the form of thoughts all day long.

Without awareness of our ego, we believe these stories to be true. This creates a ton of suffering.

If you start to witness your ego, you’ll see it creates stories of based on past experiences.

The ego seeks to do 3 things:
1. Keep you in the safe, predictable future
2. Keep the concept of the self the same it’s always been
3. Keep you safe from feeling the pain you’ve experienced in the past

Your highest self is simply awareness. It’s consciousness. It’s the part of you that makes you uniquely human: able to think about what you think + able to observe yourself.

When we’re unaware of the ego we don’t actually make choices in alignment with our values or intentions.

Then, we feel shame as a result. Not because we’ve done anything ‘wrong’— just because the ego has us believe we ARE our behavior. This becomes a cycle of shame where we feel stuck.

Practiced consciousness allows us to access choice. Choice is our healing.

For more on ego work, a powerful practice of awareness, click the link in my bio. Or search for my blog “HOW TO DO EGO WORK”

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