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