World View Perspective: The hideous nature of a sabotaging ego

When a small, still, unhappy aspect of our self surfaces, it can be quite useful to give it some time and attention.  Just like a misbehaving child, sometimes it just wants/needs to be heard, held or valued for what it has to say.  Sometimes, it can be comforted, soothed or calmed down with simple affection, understanding and love.  Other times, absolutely nothing will quiet it because it is out of balance and refuses to be still.  It can wreak havoc because it has become fitful, tired, ignorned or fed up.

When we have an unhappy, dissatisfied, twisted, tainted or sabotaging ego, this ego can act very similar. It can feed us such negative inner verbiage, judgement, criticism that we attach, identify and react to it, as if it is us. Yes, our ego can protect us, too, and help us discern what is not for us but if it has a self-sabotaging agent to it, an element of a negative self-image, it can effectively seize the system into falsehood, convincing us that we are that!

As Albert Einstein reminds us, whatever has created the problem, one must find something else for the solution.  What's the solution to a self-sabotaging ego?  We can supersede it by using our intellect, our bigger heart, our expanded sense of self and tell it we know what it is and we are not that!  The mature adult in us can stop it's ranting, just like we can stop an out of control child.  Love and understanding are powerful tools for aspects of ourselves that have been triggered in some way.  We don't want to pretend we don't have an ego because we do. We do need to understand it, however, and understand it's use of language. It will most likely be demanding, insisting it is right, attempting to dominate and to convince us it is right to feel so awful.  It justifies everything it can for itself.

Due to our earlier development, our ego may have developed a deep sense of a false ego, even to the point of turning into itself.  This may have had to do with early protection, to create its own safe place, not reveal any further vulnerabilities or avoid more of a chance to not be hurt, harmed or neglected.  In essence, the child learned to hide its feelings and ego needs away out of fear, real or imagined.  Like hiding in their room with a favorite stuffed animal to hold until they felt better.

If a parent, for example, also had a self-sabotaging ego, their own negative self image could have easily transferred this aspect onto you or projected their own negativity on to you, as Carl Jung tells us.  If so, see it as a dark, black cloak that is no longer you or yours and imagine you throwing it into a clear, brilliant blue pond to 'ripple away' the dark until the brilliant blue reappears.  Feel the heavy weight of that old baloney drift off you and disappear.  Recharge yourself and your energy with a beautiful gold bubble, all around you, knowing this is your truer vibration now.  Bring that higher, clearer vibration into current day. Feel the difference now.  Become that throughout who you are!

The more we acknowledge this hideous nature of a self-sabotaging ego or a negatively tainted ego, the more we can peel off the levels and layers of it's hurtful, harmful effects and affects (infects) on our true nature and thereby, eliminate it's negative influence, replacing it with a much healthier view of ourselves.  Our energy will improve, our health will improve and we will live in more HOPE, more JOY and greater UNDERSTANDING!  And, IT IS GOOD!!