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Ego – The Owner's Manual
By Lisa Marie Gutowski
ON OUR WAY TO REMEMBERING OUR TRUE SELVES, which is the point of being
here, we have assistance from a variety of sources. Some are high on the
vibrationary energy scale, such as angels, guides, ascended masters, and
our higher selves. This is assistance from our love sources, and we can
respond in kind with their help.
The opposite of the love response is fear, and if we so choose, we can
use the resources of the lower, slower vibrations, which are known in psychology as defense mechanisms. At the root of all that is not love is fear.
The need for self-protection, self defense, a safe haven for our soul as
it heals and gains ground against the harshness of the perceived world
is a vital part of the human experience. Feeling safe to awaken the
higher aspects of the self is important; healing and awakening will not
occur in a fear state. Unless we are able to invite wholeness to be us,
it will not, we have to want it enough to be available to it. Until we
can "drop our guard" we can embrace nothing.
The Universe is an energy realm where all is but perception. Buried deep
within each cell is the total recollection of every emotion, event, thought, deed, and memory, as we have perceived it from conception. What is stored is energy, and energy can be altered. Energy is just energy, neither positive or negative in its basic state. We assign the positive/negative/neutral aspect to it for our use. Our thoughts are pure energy, and only we are responsible for them. It takes conscious energy to alter another energy pattern. By our thoughts we are able to change the very patterns of energy trapped in our DNA. By learning how
to consciously take the helm on our incoming/outgoing energy patterns,
we can stop the accumulation of negatively charged energy that decreases
the flow of healing and ascension. The second, equally important aspect
is to clear out the remaining stagnant negative energy that has been
trapped in our bodies, causing dis-ease. Piece of cake, right?
As we come into the physical world, we are like pristine lakes, filled
with freshly fallen rain from the heavenly realms. Some lakes have
strong swift currents in them, as they are connected to other bodies of
water. This refreshes the lake, nurturing and revitalizing the life that
resides in it, cleansing the entire eco-system that surrounds it. Some
lakes have remained stagnant, cut off from the fresh input of clean
water for so long, life is no longer a viable option. Sound like anyone
you know? We can resuscitate the sluggish places in ourselves with
intent, with love, and with patience. Then the people who surround us
will start to be enlived by our very presence. That's another story.
Universal intelligence equips us with all that we need for
enlightenment, for cleansing, for healing, for coming back to spirit.
The energy systems that spring from and form our bodies can be used for
the defense of our being while we heal; this is the lower vibrational
resource. Each chakra, every layer of our auric field can be employed
for our benefit. Once a knowledge base is achieved, akin to a user's
manual, and our base line motives are revealed, we can see where our
major defense mechanisms spring from, and decide on a course of action
to heal them. Healing our core issues builds strength, not only in our
personalities, but in our energetic systems. We can then alter the
resource we use to react to day-to-day issues.
When we are solid in ourselves, secure in our environment, and at peace
with our spiritual wisdom, we become an immoveable force, impenetrable
to outside disturbances. We are able to function fully, expressing our
true selves entirely, not rock solid like the oak tree, which breaks in
the storm, but having a flexible strength, like the willow, able to bend
and flow in any situation. Becoming the willow will require a
willingness to see honestly, in complete openness, the truth of one's
self. It takes time, patience, and practice, with a load of grace on the
side...a never-ending process to be sure. Humans are complex beings,
able to hide our deepest truths, not only from others, but also from
ourselves.
The ego is with us from birth; it is the self, the instinct to survive,
the desire by which we discover our uniqueness. It is from the ego that
fear based defense mechanisms arise. Whether we choose to respond to the
stimulus before us in love or fear, it is reinforced by repeated use. We
have neural pathways in our brains, which as we learn or do anything get
reinforced, like ruts in the road, becoming deeper and wider with use.
As infants, we are completely open in all our energy systems. Crying to
have our needs met is a physical activity designed to anchor our base
chakra to the earth. As we pull the energy down, we become more
comfortable in our own skin, as it were. With the conscious use of our
ego, remembering ego is neither good nor bad but a tool for our use
while we need it, our higher chakras recede while the lower chakras
build in strength. This also serves us, helping us forget our
prior-to-birth selves, allowing further integration into the physical plane.
We re-enliven our higher chakras gradually as we age, and our self-
centeredness evolves into a more global view. This begins with the
realization that other people are separate beings, then the recognition
of the family unit, then local society. Later we become cognizant of the
world and our place in it. The gradual pace is a defense mechanism
designed so that we are not overloaded by awareness when we are not yet
ready. Defense mechanisms are fail-safe devices, acting as buffers until
we are capable of responding in love, not fear. Once the mechanisms are
recognized, a person can then choose to alter their perceptions, which
changes their behaviors, imprinting new responses to the same stimulus.
The energetic systems then expand, allowing the blocked energy to be
released, causing greater flow throughout the body, increasing health,
awareness, and chi (energy).
The ego, once a valuable protection device, becomes "dispensable". Like
all other defense mechanisms, the ego must decrease as we become
en-light-ened, dropping our heavy, lower vibrational baggage, to walk as
unencumbered light beings. However, until the ego is convinced that we
no longer need its protection, it will fight to survive. That is what it
is designed to do - keep us alive by defending us from all perceived
attacks. Only by the gradual and intentional use of the love responses
(forgiveness, humility, honesty, integrity) instead of the ego based
fear defense mechanisms (blame, shame, guilt, rage,helplessness) can we let the ego disappear completely. Do not give the ego any more power than that; it is a tool, nothing more.
How do we recognize a fear-based response, one that contracts us rather
than expands? By paying extremely close attention to ourselves, gaining
knowledge of how the universe works, and by asking it to be revealed,
while it is occurring or while reflecting on the event.
We are each other's keeper. Every person we have ever come into contact
with is a mirror, showing us our true nature, as we are to them. Every
emotional encounter is charged with what we need to pay attention to in
ourselves. Every situation is one that we have called into existence by
our creative thought energy, useful in our healing even before we are
awake enough to see it.
When the realization that all we have suffered, the pain, the heartache,
the human drama has been for our benefit, that each person has an
individualized path for our mutual growth, and that we can neutralize
fear with knowledge based love really takes hold in our consciousness,
we can end suffering for ourselves. We can walk this earth with
confidence, no longer needing our ego filled defense mechanisms to jump
in front of us for protection. This state of grace is ours for the
asking, but the inner work must be passed through. There are no
shortcuts.
Dissecting the response to the stimulus will allow us to see where the
root has been anchored, how deep it goes, and how we can pull it out
completely. Knowledge is power, and the more we know about ourselves,
the more powerful we become, for ourselves, our communities, our world.
An empowered person has no need for defense mechanisms, no ego issues
to declare. Think of how wonderful this world will be when we cease having
to use this tool to survive.
When we listen to our bodies, emotions, and feel psychically our
energetic bodies, we are able to control the emotional response before
it takes control. By detaching the emotion - using your imagination to
put the emotion on "pause", placing it in a bubble, and putting it
outside of yourself - it looses its charge. We see it for what it truly
is, an emotion, e = energy in motion. When we are no longer personally
attached to the emotion, we no longer have to act on it. If we choose to
bring the emotion back to us, we can at any time. With practice this
becomes easier; the higher the charge on the emotion or the deeper the
defense mechanism is, the more practice is required.
The first step is asking questions when the defensive emotion appears.
What is it? Is it anger? Greed? Jealousy? Hopelessness? Desire? Where on
the body do you feel it originates? How intense is the emotion? Any
defense mechanism can be done to you or come from you. Remember,
everyone is a mirror here to help us see ourselves. Any defense
mechanism can aid a person in avoiding the core issue.
There are seven major chakras in the body. Each has a function differing
from the others yet are connected by the energetic system which runs
through our body. Surrounding us like an egg is the aura, each layer
corresponding to a chakra. The energy of the emotion can be felt in or
near a chakra, or if you are sensitive to energy scanning, can be felt
in the layers of the aura. A brief explanation of which chakra correlates with which defense mechanism will help you understand how the body stores and uses these emotions.
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