HARNESSING THE EGO
Our ego, our attachment to identity, serves one purpose only: to keep us safe. But for most of us, due to societal and generational conditioning, our reptilian brain has our ego running the show. With the ego in charge, we hold ourselves back in so many ways. We hold ourselves back from courageous moves that will help us grow into more open and loving people.
The ego will always keep us searching outside of ourselves for answers, frozen to some external identity yet simultaneously feeling lost.
Do you feel stuck? Trapped? Lonely? Hello ego.
Our ego puts fear around judgement.
If you change, what will they think? What will they say?
The they that you fear isn’t real.
The fact is, that no matter what you do, if you keep yourself really tucked in or if you are “too much”, someone will be judging you.
Does what others think about you really matter?
Or are you just distracting yourself and using up precious time and energy?
Asking ourselves, “Who am I seeking acknowledgement from and why?”, is a powerful way to hold a mirror to our ego. We can look at the way we pour ourselves into molds in order to people-please. How can others see you if you are only showing the projection of yourself that you think they want to see?
In Medicine Readings, I’m asked all the time, “How can I get more in touch with my intuition?” I believe that we are all very intuitive. It's just that we’ve been taught to not trust how we feel.
Ego is the one thing in the way of us being able to tap into our intuition.
Ego makes us afraid of mystery; it wants to know exactly what comes next.
Intuition is in flow with the great mystery. You know you are following it when you see more synchronicities. When you are not sure exactly why, but you feel the need to reach out to a certain person or be in a certain place at a certain time. Less needing to know and more trusting how you feel. When you trust your intuition enough to follow it, you are in the flow- peaceful, grounded. When you are grounded you are so supported, so held, so loved and so protected.
ritual for harnessing the ego
In order to tap into our own divinity, we don’t need to banish the ego, we just need to have practices that help us to harness it. These practices are easy to spot because the ego puts habits and patterns in place that don’t serve us.
Pick one habit that you have that you are willing to admit to yourself is holding you back in some way. Vow to step away from that one thing for a minimum time span of 7 days. Notice how your ego screams for that habit to come back. Notice how courageous you feel without it.