Started by YaNanNallari, September 15, 2018. Sign in to follow this . 0 1. rue saint-denis. 7 posts in this topic. AH it kindda boggles my mind. YaNanNallari Topic Starter - - - Member; 815 posts; Posted September 15, 2018. We have long ago surpassed our basic survival needs of food and shelter. But it is a primitive motivation (or mental framework) produced by the mind in its lower states of development. Too much is never enough. Ego is a mental motivation justifying its existence by the need for self preservation. There are many types of people around the world, all unique based on their own personal experiences, yet something remains intrinsically the same. Why Do We Have an Ego, Anyway? Now that we have understood that the ego is an essential part of our being but needs to be kept in check, let’s look at how we can do that. The ego expresses the opposite of the unifying field that leads to enlightenment. Anxiety also plays a role in helping the ego mediate between the demands of the basic urges, moral values, and the real world. But ego tries to keep us in the dark, hiding from our Light. Why do we have ego backlash? It isn’t normal to have an insatiable desire to attain the most of something– money, cars, homes, power, etc. Greed can bring down an individual, a family… even a society. 1 decade ago. So to have ego creates the possibility to know the bigger part of you. Most relationships are destroyed when one or the other person feels the need to be always right. The "I" then has purpose and meaning that is eternal in nature. Followers 1. We know what compassion is because we’ve been indifferent. However, the Taoist teach that nothing is either good no bad, it just is. It’s normal to want to achieve success, possess nice things and have some security. We know what generosity is because we’ve experienced greed. While the ego has a tough job to do, it does not have to act alone. When we discover the ego’s soft underbelly, it throws up even more defenses and uses more weapons like distraction, addiction, boredom, drinking, drug use or overeating. When you experience different types of anxiety, defense mechanisms may kick in to help defend the ego and reduce the anxiety you are feeling. Like, I understand that it might protect us from things or too fast development, but I want more info. i wish u well. Have we outlived ego’s usefulness? When we observe around us, we will see the 'childlike mentality' and the 'provider mentality'. And so on. So, why do we have to destroy it to get where we want to be? Ego must align with the Order - with which we have come and by which we are sustained - and direct the life/being towards that, ego must derive its identity from the Source, from the universal principle, we are part of that, instead of assuming its own identity. evolutionarily, for self efficacy, I would say. Here are 9 signs your ego is in control of your life: 1. We know joy because we’ve experienced sorrow. Like someone once said, “you can be happy or you can be right”. From that personality conflict with such-and-such that drives us to distraction, to genocide and the threat of nuclear war, if you drill down to the core of it, you can plainly see Ego’s machinations. So the ego cannot be bad or evil, it just is. Ego We often discover that the less we feed the endless appetite of our egos, the more we avail ourselves to H-s proper format for human living. I though once I was ready for the course of mirracle. When you look at Ego, it sure seems to be responsible for all the negative stuff in the world. WE, the ego will always have Choice, always have individuality, and can do,see,feel as WE want. This is when we can begin to create new habits and in doing this, the old habits simply fall away. Why do we have ego backlash? 1. Always Right Vs Always Happy. Seeing the truth of who we are not, weakens the ego’s hold on things. We tend to look at the ego as bad and oneness as good. There exists a growing group of theorists and social anthropologists who think that humans have outgrown the need for the ego. It big.