Ego - Friend or Foe? (You can make a copy by highlighting and copying to your files)

                                          A Spiritual Snippet

                       Ego – Friend or Foe?

          You’d be surprised! So, let’s unpack this surprising thought.

          Ego is the body’s Swiss Army Knife and ultimate survival tool.

Ego Fear looks for danger and prepares you for flight or fight.

Ego Guilt shows you the mistakes you made and need to correct.

Ego Anger is the explosive justification to change your world.

Here is the ego working hard as protector of the body.

But, here’s when ego the protector becomes ego the evil torturer:

Ego can only create thought loops.

When lost in the loop of fearful thoughts, anxiety paralyzes any successful production.

When lost in the loop of guilty thoughts, like a cancerous growth of unworthiness, it slowly eats you alive.

When lost in a loop of anger your poisonous thoughts of revenge end up destroying you.

Dark, this is really dark! Let’s get out of here.

Instead, you can just notice those red flags of ego’s guilt, fear and anger. STOP THERE before the loops drag you in. Immediately turn your mind to the quiet Inner Voice and allow a miraculous new perspective to swell up within you.

O.K. then. Fear, guilt and anger will happen but now you can use ego’s red flags as springboards to Inner Peace and receive the healing gifts Heaven offers.