Ego Attachment

ego

noun, plural e·gos.

the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.

Psychoanalysis. the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment.

egotism; conceit; self-importance:

Her ego becomes more unbearable each day.

self-esteem or self-image; feelings:

Your criticism wounded his ego.

Much like our shadow self, we ALL have an ego. Do you become defensive when receiving criticism?Do you feel the need to be liked and accepted by those around you...even by the people you don’t fully know? Do you judge another person who has the total opposite belief systems to you? Do you get your back up when someone else is telling you your way of reasoning isn't right? Are you stubborn? Do you gloat? If you answered yes to one or all of these, you have an ego attachment. Having an ego attachment can block your crown chakra, delay the things you want to manifest and harbour negative energy within yourself, inturn, attracting more negative energy into your life. 

The word ‘Ego’ in recent times has had a negative view to it, mainly by those who are way too egotistical to admit they have this attachment! But having an ego attachment does not make you a bad person. Recognising you may have this attachment, accepting and wanting to remove this makes you 10 steps ahead of those egotistical low vibration beings.

So how do we remove this?

We start with understanding and recognising when the ego shows itself. A perfect example is a situation we have all been in - someone is saying something that gets you  back up. You don't agree with what they are saying in the slightest! You feel all of you're opinions and what you believe to be true bubbling up inside of you, you start looking at the person talking and calling them ‘stupid’ in you're head. You're making a mental list of all the ways you can prove this person wrong. And finally, you unleash. You let it all out, having a heated discussion that really has no positive outcome. Before you go in, Stop. Ask yourself, am I judging this person? Is what I think to be true just my opinion or a proven fact? How will it change this person's life for the better by pushing my opinion down their throat? Ask and answer these to yourself honestly, and you will really set yourself free from low grade energy.

To remove ego attachment we need to look at the way we take in information and how we relay it. Is that person you work with really ‘toxic and evil’ OR are they actually going through their own struggles that no one else knows about? Do you really need to be unkind to that person because he/she believes in aliens? OR are they  just on a different path to your own beliefs? To remove this attachment we need to listen to our hearts more than our brains and shadow. 

Physical things you can do to remove ego attachments

~ Crown chakra meditations

~Build on your compassion

~Don't engage in gossip

~Ask yourself is this me or my ego? 

~Separate your thoughts from emotions

~Accept that other people have and are entitled to their own opinions

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