Is your day governed by events coming from outside of yourself: Commitments, work, or significant others? Are you overwhelmed by activities you think you should do? Do the people around you no longer resonate with you? Do you feel like you are an actor in a play, and someone else is writing the script?
If your mind is filled with "have to's" and '"should do's," you may find comfort in knowing that these thoughts do not come from your true being. These thoughts are the result of the 'ego' mind. The result of years of cultural programming and traumas you have experienced. It affects almost everything we do and it is long past time to release this way of being and thinking.
Of course, there are things we must do that are necessities of life in a 3D world. But as far as dealing with the mental chatter we can find freedom. We can choose our own thoughts! Take back your power by becoming a 'thought alchemist."
For example, If you are thinking "I must stay at this job, I am doomed." Choose instead, thoughts that empower and bring you enjoyment such as, "This is what I am doing Now in order to make a living, but I am moving into .........." Fill in the blanks with your dream job, dream vacation, your passion.
The part of the person that is one’s ego is a construction of self arising from external views or perceptions of who we are. The ego measures us against others and competes for a greater sense of self and fulfillment, bound by ideas of what we have done in the past and what we will do in the future and limited to a single dimensional aspect of self. Ego therefore is a unique tasking system of analyzing, judging and labeling, thus creating in your mind who you think you are. The ego can never be satisfied, and, because is exists on the outward surface, it can never attain a connection to universal cosmic awareness of self and others. To get beyond our ego self, we must manifest a new orientation towards a greater awareness and a connection to soul self. All of our fears, judgments, thoughts and emotions are part of ego. Beneath the ego is the soul where we can process the world though love and compassion and a sense of unity to all of the cosmos.
Eventually a person has a moment of clarity. In this moment, they see the inherent emptiness of all the things they thought were so important. This causes a person to reevaluate their whole existence and look for a deeper meaning in Life.
