EPISODE · Jun 3, 2021 · 31 MIN
90. Your ego is not your enemy
from ShamanTalk · host Rhonda McCrimmon
The Ego has a bad rap — it has become the villain of self-help. According to psychologists, if we don’t have an ego, we would become mentally ill. We need it to mediate between the unconscious and the conscious. Your relationship with your Ego can turn into either an enemy or an ally. In other words, your Ego is not you, but we often completely identify with our Ego as Self. Ego is a structure built of a lifetime of experience, disappointment, pain, love, excitement and connection – whatever we experienced in our childhoods, both good and bad. Our Ego is a curious beast — most of us don’t realize its existence, yet we are under its mercy. So, this week we explore how to explore Ego gently and to shift it to its rightful place as part of our Being rather than the illusion that it is the whole of our Being.
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The Ego has a bad rap — it has become the villain of self-help. According to psychologists, if we don’t have an ego, we would become mentally ill. We need it to mediate between the unconscious and the conscious. Your relationship with your Ego can turn into either an enemy or an ally. In other words, your Ego is not you, but we often completely identify with our Ego as Self. Ego is a structure built of a lifetime of experience, disappointment, pain, love, excitement and connection – whatever we experienced in our childhoods, both good and bad. Our Ego is a curious beast — most of us don’t realize its existence, yet we are under its mercy. So, this week we explore how to explore Ego gently and to shift it to its rightful place as part of our Being rather than the illusion that it is the whole of our Being.
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