The Dangers of an Overactive Ego and How to Let Go of It for Personal Growth
Let it Go So You Can Flow
You may be trying really hard to create a lifestyle full of opportunities and successes, but you constantly feel like you are at a tug-of-war with your desires and your thoughts. Find out how you can get in touch with your reality and achieve your goals.
The conscious mind feeds you with ideas and fuels you with creativity. It pumps you up to create a life of your dreams. However, each time you are led by your ambitions you may feel that you are immediately chased down and stopped in your tracks and prevented from designing a life of your dreams. You may lose all motivation and feel that you don’t have it in you to pursue what your visions reveal to you. This is because your ego may have a tight hold on you. It’s what keeps you out-of-touch with your reality and you almost never tap into this because the ego most often operates from your subconscious mind and keeps you in you coddled up inside your comfort zone.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE EGO?
The ego is the part of your psyche that protects your id. Your id operates on a subconscious level which represents your most animalistic urges such as desire for food, sex and impulsive pleasures. At the time of your birth, your id was developed, but your ego wasn’t. Your ego most likely started to develop between the ages of three and five.
Your ego operates both on a conscious and subconscious level.
Your ego develops through observing the behaviours of people the closest to you when you are growing up.
It becomes your own construction of your identity based on your beliefs and experiences.
It is the meditator between your id and your superego - the part of the psyche that works in contrast to your id. It holds internalized morals and provides guidelines for judgments. This develops between the ages of five and seven.
Overtime, your ego may begin to give you a false image of your reality by resorting to fear-based thinking and leading you to react to situations with anxiety.
HOW TO SPOT THE EGO
The ego is not easy to spot unless you are in a complete state of self-awareness. Many of the times, the ego is masked behind judgments, limiting beliefs, opinions, anger, jealousy, worry, fear, anxiety, depression and people pleasing. Although, you are aware of these feelings, behaviours and emotions; you feel they are justified because for years you have been conditioned to protect your id rather than to observe your overall identity and control your responses.
