Does it come from the Ego or from the Soul?

Our intelligence, although it has developed over a millenary evolution, still remains today, for a large part of humanity, at the service of the primitive mechanisms of 3 P:

Fear

Pleasure

Candies

Generally, human beings consider others and the environment only to the extent that they can be a help or a danger to their survival (physical or psychological). This mechanism separates one from the other and generates a sort of "underlying selfishness" which, although it was necessary in the evolutionary process to allow the individual to build the important tool of the ego, currently creates endless difficulties and sufferings. We think of the wars with their atrocities, but also of the small wars caused by each of us (war with the neighbor, between spouses, with relatives, with colleagues, ....)

1) Fear

Fear is a basic mechanism that does not only concern physical survival, but also the psychological one (fear of not being loved, of losing one's job, children, partner, fear of the future, of failure, of loneliness, of unknown, etc.), or anything that threatens what we identify with, our ego, which we have built on the basis of memories.

Fear is the typical element of the state of separation in which most human beings find themselves. "The other" always constitutes, a priori, a potential enemy.

2) Pleasure

The other mechanism is personal pleasure, which however satisfies the human being for short moments and in the end leaves him empty as before if not more. The worst thing is that the pursuit of pleasure at this primitive level deprives us of the experience of true pleasure, the one that fills the heart deeply: the ability to fully enjoy life is part of our true being, but it is not accessible when ours life mainly revolves around the mechanisms of the EGO.

3) Candies

The defense of the territory, on the other hand, had as its evolution the search for power: domination, manipulation, competition, the pursuit of profit at any cost, etc.

These are the consequences:

- the fear it generates stress, anxiety, aggression, a closed attitude towards others, hatred, anger, fanaticism, violence and a whole series of negative emotions that we know very well.

- the selfish pursuit of pleasure it generates a predatory attitude, through which we try to feed ourselves energetically at the expense of others. When we cannot possess others as a source of nourishment, then a whole series of negative emotions emerge within relationships: jealousy, resentment, aggression, indifference, envy…. and so, almost without realizing why, we flounder in the troubled waters of daily suffering.

- the selfish pursuit of candies generates pride, violence, vanity, malice, manipulation, etc.

For the current EGO, separation is a matter of survival: it has been like this for millennia. So, let's try not to hold too much grudge towards our EGO and instead be understanding with ourselves; we have millennia of old mechanisms to overcome….

Instead, there is another "way of functioning", which depends on a completely different principle: that of UNITY.

Let us ask ourselves a question: does this thing that I am thinking, this thing that I am doing, what am I saying, does it come from the EGO or does it come from the SOUL?

How to strengthen the way of the soul to free ourselves from the old burdens and be happier?

An approach that can accelerate the evolutionary process in this sense is the path of ENERGY EXPERIENCES.

Science tells us that most of our daily activities are governed by the mechanisms of the unconscious and processed very quickly (forty billion bits per second), while we are aware of only a very small percentage of our activities, with a capacity for much slower processing (two thousand bits per second).

This is why not mental but energetic approaches, such as meditation but also smile and laugh therapy, combined with autogenic training, visualizations, theatrical techniques, choral singing and music therapy, begin to acquire dignity, not only because they can now be scientifically confirmed, but also because their results, increasingly evident and known, have proved to be powerfully beneficial.

And in the daily recipe, don't forget a pinch of self-irony and a bit of healthy madness ... ..

Play a little bit to deflate your bulky EGO with this pill video you can see below!

I want to leave you with this thought from Osho, a well-known Indian spiritual master:

Laughter is the holiest phenomenon on earth, as it is the highest peak of awareness.

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