A universe of our own

The mind is our ego. This is the filter that we see the rest of the world though. It holds most of our recallable memories and general data of our environment. It tells us what it perceives to be good or bad for us such as cautioning us when something is to hot or cold to touch. Our ego assess everything in our perception and evaluates given its experience what is good and what is bad, what we like and what we don’t like and so on. The ego can be our best friend in some situations but it can be extremely limiting in others.

The trouble with our ego is that it is very hard to turn it off. Our ego or minds whole job is to be observant and to store data so that it can make the best decisions based on this collected data to keep us safe, or to protect the body.  This is great for our bodies but it can be a trouble when we are looking to go beyond our physical being toward our higher self. Spiritual development is one place the ego can be limiting to our growth and in some cases it may cause problems with our balance.  This is why meditation is so important and recommended by those who are intuitively in touch with their higher selves, when we meditate we move beyond this ego and away from our protective self towards our spiritual god selves. Please keep in mind that there are many ways to meditate.

If we are going to learn to rely on our own channels or our own ability to reach out to the divine we must be able to learn to put the ego aside. This is why so many people do work in their dreams; while the body is asleep the ego is asleep with it. Moving beyond the ego means moving beyond the noise of our fears and offers us the ability to move beyond our extremely limited knowledge. Recall we are only the sum total of our experiences in this life. Our experiences are so limited here. It is easy to forget that we have access to so much more than our own limited experiences. It can be really difficult to learn to put our ego voices aside. We first have to become alert to how to identify our egos thought from that of our higher selves. A good rule of thumb is if we are feeling feelings or having thoughts of our physical body or having fear of taking an action because it will affect our physical body, we are filtering through the ego.  Please note that thoughts of physical body could be thoughts about money, thoughts about loss of our job or thoughts about loss of a mate. These things are most often tied to our ego just being afraid of losing its health. For example many of us do not take risks or make career decisions based on monetary decisions. We tend to not make decisions to leave our jobs or we stay with jobs that do not fit us because we are worried about losing our money which could lead to us losing our homes our shelter, which could lead to us being exposed to elements and desperate and so on.  We need to be mindful about why we are making the decisions we are making and why we are choosing the things in life that we do. If we are able to determine if we are moving from a place of ego or if we are connecting with our higher selves we will be able to tap into our infinite knowledge sources and we will be able to make more guided decisions.

Making guided decisions is something available to everyone; it is a right of being human in this human experience. We were not beings marooned or exiled to this planet by a god that is conditional. We are spiritual beings who chose to be human in this space and time and in our current condition. We get so lost in the endless chatter of our egos, which are working to protect our body that we often fail to remember that we are also higher spiritual beings who have access to universes of information already within us. We must return to a place of self-trust and comfort in our own abilities and our own relationship with the divine. This does not mean that we should never seek the council of others; it simply means that we should learn how to seek and consult with our own first!