Elin Kungsman

Ego

Tuesday, 29. September 2009, 08:31:08

I want everyone to ask themselves: Have I ever thought that I`m fat?Have I ever thought:You´re disgusting!
(this is an example you can change the word fat to any negative word)

Or is it just a voice in your head repeating those thoughts?A voice that sounds like yours, feels like yours. How would you describe that voice?Does it really describe fact or is loaded with negativity?Is it establishing that you are fat or is it trying to convince you that you are?
Do you listen to it?Do we listen to it because it sound like us or because the things it says are logical?Do we listen to it because its what we want. Its my voice I hear in my head,right, therefor it must be what I think and want, right? The most important opinion about myself is my own, not what everyone else think. BUT is this voice really me?Or is it my ego that are speaking..

The Ego is our worst/only enemy.No one kan paint up sadness or trick us to happiness as it does. The Ego is´nt you, it wants you to believe its you. The ego is changeable and unpredictable, controled by emaotions(negative as positive).. It will make you believe that you´re beautiful just to bring you down with ugly thoughts the next second. The ego is almost exclusivly affected by the surroundigs and will then affect you with it..as much as you let it affect you. The ego can put images of things that never happend in your head and make you beleive it undoubtebly.
Its hard not to got to get cought in it and be controled by it.. You are constantly sharing your weaknesses with it aswell as your strenght,your secrets and innerthoughts.' and you can´t get away from it. It reaches you where ever you are and it can come and leave as it pleases, you can allways turn to it and you do trust it.
The best thing to do in my opinion is to be more aware of its excistens..And next time think twice and question it..analyse and see it from other perspectives and not oly from the ego-perspective. Nothing is set until we got proof:)

a very "dared" video

Comments

Furie # 29. September 2009, 09:31

Nice post El. I made a post about this sort of thing a while back. It tries to promote a healthy attitude to people's self image.

garlingmatthews # 29. September 2009, 13:31

The trouble is that we're a part of this gestalt called humanity, and the other members do judge us, and we do care. I can't put on a couple of kilos with-out a friend pointing it out. So we become a different person, because those around us react differently to us.

Furie # 29. September 2009, 14:40

That's humanity's problem. So concerned with what others are thinking that they adopt that way of thinking themselves, even if no-one else is really thinking that way. It's paranoia based on the media propagated idea of normality and the advertising industry relying on telling people that if they don't meet the idea of normality then they're bad people.

I've been my supposed healthy weight for most of my life. Now that I'm a couple of stone over that people keep telling me how healthy I look. Forget what others say, stop listening to that little bit of self-loathing we all have that has been corn-fed by almost everything we see, and start being happy with yourself. Like everything it takes some practice, but eventually it'll become instinct.

RichardCooper # 30. September 2009, 17:57

Read the book from Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

Ellan 87 # 30. September 2009, 20:31

I think so too about the instinct thing after awhile of awareness you´´l instinctly think about ot putting yourself down as quickly as you´ve done in the past:)
oo what kinda book is that new earth? is it a pshycologic one?

winterdawn # 1. October 2009, 11:37

Oh this is a very insightful post Ell

I knew something was brewing when you haven't written anything for so long, and here we are, the ultimate masterpiece

Indeed, it is often difficult to get a good look of our own ego, we tag along what its telling us to do, and fail to notice how much of our soul it has controlled. But it is always good to take a deep breath, sit down, and compose our thoughts, and think like the way you had just did when you wrote down your article

It helps us get our control back, does it?

The bottom line is, be yourself, and don't let what other people say get to you

Hey, I'm so addicted with this new book series that I'd finished 4 books in a matter for days, and now waiting the release of the 5th and 6th volume

Why don't you check it out? Title is "House of Night" series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. At first, it may appear to be a bit shallow, but the thing is, as I read along, it has also given me the opportunity to think about a lot of things going on in my life now. It's really good, so I'm recommending it to you

RichardCooper # 1. October 2009, 13:46

Originally posted by Ellan 87:

what kinda book is that new earth? is it a pshycologic one?

A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose is a more detailed examination of the ideas introduced in The Power of Now.

The core of Tolle's thought, in brief, is that the whole of humanity is trapped in self-created worlds of thought. An individual will experience this as their self-concept.

Within these labyrinthine stories it is impossible to achieve lasting happiness. As they are fictional and static, all self concepts are subject to destruction and decay, a process Tolle cites as the main causal factor in human suffering (the ego)