To Kill or Not To Kill The Ego...

Living Consciously is an awareness of how we are being. There are high profile people in the media telling us our ego is bad or something we need to "kill" or rise above. But, the truth for me is the ego is very important to understand how we navigate through our reality. We grow up in an ego-based society, so to remain within the society and create real change - what I call transformation it is important. At some point we begin to see the ego as a tool for understanding what needs to be healed. To understand the ego and its true nature, or its job gives us a fair advantage to navigate our social structure beyond what we agreed to as we grew up.

Here in the United States we grow up with the indoctrination of our society with the media, family orientation, churches, and school. The ego helps us understand information about what works and what doesn't work to navigate through our society. Our society utilizes the ego as the driving force of our daily lives. What I found was there is a use for ego but to use it effectively we must look at how the brain interprets information.

Use the ego as a tool rather than identifying the information the ego brings to our consciousness as ultimate truth. There are clues we can use to notice when we are identifying ourselves with ego and our perception is based on the misinterpretation of the information available to us. These clues point us in a direction, it is our job to decipher the clues and consciously look at the direction to see if it is indeed where we want to take this journey. As an experiment I tried looking at the ego and doing the opposite of the messages, this did not bring me any closer to creating the life I wanted.

It is our freedom to create the life we want. Maybe drama and trauma is important to help us learn about how we create. We choose how we will experience life, and the risk of living consciously is that we begin to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens in our experiences. When we do this we begin to realize we are accountable for our thoughts, emotions and beliefs. When we begin to wake up to our authentic selves we realize we have been living in a dream. When we live consciously the world becomes more beautiful and joyful, it becomes fun a vast playground for choice. We can stop living as a victim, or survivor and begin to thrive in our life. For me this has now become the absolute truth. I live in a world that is supportive, safe, loving, kind, open, and a playground for exploration of whatever my mind body and spirit are capable of creating. It is profoundly more rewarding than the nightmare I once lived in.

Living in pain, shame, guilt and fear is the “hell” we create. When we hold others accountable for giving us what we need in life we can often become disengaged, disenchanted and even angry if they do not live up to our expectations. At times we can feel a tinge of pressure in our chest of presiding fear. Other times we can feel tension of the weight of the world in our shoulders. Most often our past comes up, and if we give in to the emotional upset, we cheat our world and ourselves of the greatness that resides within each individual.

All of us have wounds from childhood that can hold us down. We may believe our parents really did it to us. It's time to stop blaming them and start looking at what we did to ourselves.

Groundbreaking work in the field of Biology examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. What this research has done is help us understand that the personal perception of our environment effects how the DNA is signaled. This effect is directly stimulated by our beliefs.

Understand that the power of positive energy affects our daily life, our perception of life and life itself. When we learn to deeply let go of the negative influences of our life we transform our experience and our body as well. Now there is a lot to be said for positive affirmations, however, when we begin to awaken our core to that positive experience through emotions, thoughts and beliefs that's when the body begins to respond to the positive energy.

When we have a belief, it generates a thought, which brings on an action through an event. In a nano-second, we evaluate, and an emotion is formed. We act or react, creating a behavior. We evaluate the consequences, which lead to an evaluation of our original belief. Then we go out into the world and create additional evidentiary experience to prove our logic, regardless of whether or not the logic is flawed. We continue to repeat the process. Through self awareness we can begin to realize that we have choices as to what we believe, feel, think and experience and also about how we behave.

When we hold the evidence as the only truth, we are looking at the world from a single, limited perspective. We continue to produce the same results in our lives until we recognize the fact that we have another choice. We even create agreements with others, unconsciously of course, to help us identify behaviors, which either support our desires or become signposts showing us that we are going the wrong way.

I believe, we must wake up to our own power and empathy and to our own inspiration and motivation if we are to create a planet that will sustain us and nurture our children to come. Obama said it in his inauguration speech: "We must affirm the greatness of our nations. The way to do this is by affirming our own greatness. We cannot create what we do not have inside ourselves. We must stand up and take back our lives. To re-create our nations in their greatness we must start with ourselves." As Martin Luther-King Jr. said "This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism." Now is the time.

Each time we do what is right and true for us, we tell ourselves that we are good enough, powerful enough, strong enough and worthy of the life we have; we put this positive energy into our world. The time has come for each of us to take full responsibility for our part in what has happened, not only to us but also to our nation, other nations, humanity and the planet. Making a better world is not only your responsibility, but it's your joy, your blessing and a way you can make your lasting mark on our home.

This new movement, which is now gaining momentum in our society, may appear daunting to those who do not yet realize that we can actually DO something to manifest positive change. We can ALL take part in creating the planet we all deserve and desire to live on. This can be accomplished through knowing and understanding that we are all worthy of creating a life of harmony and balance and letting go of the stresses of life that are holding us back. The time of self-sacrifice to the exclusion of self-realization must end; the time to empower all people to see their ability to help each other by helping themselves must begin.

Self knowledge is one of the key factors in living a life of empowerment. To paraphrase Socrates "An Examined Life Is Worth Living."