Law of Attraction – The Ego is Not Really The Bad Guy
The law of attraction is often guided by the beliefs of your ego. Everything you learned from experiences with your parents, peers, teachers, doctors and so forth are a continuing determinant of your behavior. The best way to define ego, is "What you think you are."
You created your ego to protect you from experiencing unpleasant circumstances. Of far greater importance to your belief system is not whether you have big feet, but how the world treats people with big feet. The beliefs you have about people with big feet and how having big feet affects your life are the deep-seated beliefs that your ego remembers and plays that tape every time something comes up about the size of feet--yours or anyone else's.
This system of beliefs is what we call your ego. You ego is not the reality of what you are, but everything you have come to believe is true about you.
- What you believe is not TRUTH. If it were, it would remain constant and would be the same for everyone.
- You made it up, and it changes every moment of every day, so it is an illusion
- Because you made it, you LOVE it, and must defend it at all costs
Think about a new idea you have and want to share. Notice how hurt you become if the world scoffs at your idea. You thought it up, and it may or may not be true, but you think it is and so you have to defend it. You have thousands of beliefs, and some of them contradict others, which explains your confusion and mixed feelings about something. It divides your efforts and effectiveness and in the extreme will immobilize you. You have accepted deeply ingrained beliefs which control your life.
Your ego's sole function is to help you by guiding you, to prove that you are right, and that what you believe is really true. It has such power to create experiences to provide proof that what you believe is true. Think about the belief that an abused child has of not being enough. His life experiences will prove to him that he is not good enough. Or the child who is taught that she is shy. Her ego will provide the instant reaction to "prove" to her that she is unable to speak fluently to visitors or classmates.
Your ego is not the bad guy, it is simply a collection of your beliefs. It is a guidance system. It will provide an instant reaction to everything that happens. Though it has unlimited power over your reactions, its options are limited and locked into only what fits with your deep-seated beliefs. You will never be without an ego, you can never transcend it, only transform it.
As you change what you believe to be true, your ego will provide new guidance for new instant reactions and thus new experiences to support your new beliefs. The Law of Attraction manifests the things that you believe to be true. By changing your beliefs, you can change your reality.
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