Ego often gets a lot of negative press. The word ego is derived from the Latin word for “I”. The key is not to confuse this “I” with the “True I”, the essence, the being of who you are. Ego is a mental construct of who you think you are and herein lays the problem.

Because our ego forms early in life, when we are operating with plenty of emotion yet lacking in logic, we often create these “Mental Me’ ego stories based on the logic of a 3-year-old. This would explain why to your conscious mind it makes no sense how a subconscious belief that you are not good enough, or a “bad girl”, is still running your life.

When these beliefs of identity are wired into our brain and nervous system, we did not have the mental maturity to use logic in the formation of the stories we created. If the teacher calls little Johnny a bad boy because he talked too much (according to the teacher’s standard), little Johnny cannot reason that the authority figure (the teacher) is having a bad hair day perhaps.

What the adult says about the child is only the adult’s opinion anyway. In reality, the child’s identity is not changed by the words of the adult. In reality, our being is independent of what we do.

You see, what you do, what you think, is NOT the same as who you are at your essence.

I have discovered for myself that as I started to heal the stories of the Mental Me, as I learned how to release the cellular memory of those stories, and even sometimes reframe them, my sense of identity, my self-image dramatically improved. Does this matter? You bet it does.

If one has a poor self-image or feels unworthy of success and abundance at a subconscious level, he or she will not likely reach their true potential to create for their own personal experience, nor are they likely to contribute as much to the lives of others. We cannot rise above our own self-image.

At issue here is the wounded ego, an ego that is a storyteller, “re-membering” the stories from early childhood or even early teen years that we told ourselves about ourselves. Your brain and mind cannot tell the difference between something vividly imagined with emotion and something that is actually occurring.

If you feel unworthy, and you are not aware of the True Self, you will attach these feelings to your sense of (ego) self, the “false” identity. You will start to believe the outside world and not listen or trust your own inner Guidance. Hence, the True You, the Magnificent Me, gets covered over and hijacked by the mental construct of ego.

The journey to empowerment is about healing these old cellular memories that steal your sense of identity, the potential seeds of greatness and substitutes instead feelings and mental ideas that keep you playing small and feeling not good enough. If you are still comparing yourself to the next person, you are still very much not aware of the “True I” which is unique and knows better than to do this.

Wherever your understanding is, know that the journey is the adventure, and to appreciate and accept today is always another opportunity to create a tomorrow for yet another level of YOU to unfold.

Tags: Confidence, Ego, Empowerment, Self-Esteem

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