Hi Everyone,

                     Here I am trying to heal my life as we all are. I am sitting at work and I got told off for taking lunch for to long. Even though the boss mixed me up with the wrong person! When he started having ago at me. My mind just closed him off and I started saying to myself "Shut the F&*** up". After he left I cooled down. I paused and thought Why do I do that? Then it hit me. It's my ego! I started laughing and I thought now I know why the past 4 years I been depressed, it's been my ego feeding me lies.

But the question is how do we stop listening to the ego. How do we stop listening to the beliefs and listen to the truth?

Thank you Paul

Paul,

No one should be treating you like that, ego or no ego. This sort of thing is exactly what my (soon to be ex) partner does. When he does that, I get so fuming mad, I tell him off.

Did you tell your boss they had the wrong guy? Your ego isn't lying to you! It is telling you that you are being treated in such a way that you don't deserve!!!

Did you read the story about the guy, who got abused at work? He used LOA and everyone who abused him in the past, left the company or got fired. Now he loves his job.

Visualize each situation with a positive outcome. Soon your natural life will line up with the universe if you put the positive intentions out there.
 

Tania,

So what you're saying is, if you don't do anything about people taking advantage of you, life is more peaceful? Do these people who take advantage of you make your life a living hell if you put your foot down? 

Troy

When you  get to a stage of understanding that this life that we are experiencing now is only an illusion and nothing more than a dream where there are no right or wrong ways of doing things then one can only believe that resistance only offers fuel to a situation that may not be desirable. We only have control of the now and when in doubt I say do nothing because things work themselves out from a powerful truth that always rises or emerges through it's own intelligence and reveals all to all eventually. Truth could be the only thing that could offer some reality to this life as I see it. I am not saying that is absolute but from my experiences it seemed that way to me. But then again things are not always what they seem are they ;)

That would depend on the individual. We make our lives as hard or as easy as we want it to be.  I am still learning however, I have found that resistance causes the greatest obstacles in life at least it has done so for me. I am in a position in life where I can sit here and honestly say that I don’t need much to function on anymore because of my mindset from past experience of having all I ever wanted. I have acquired many things in life and I am now finding myself exposing of all materialism because I have discovered that it enslaves me to it. But then that is only my feeling because I seek freedom from all things now. Maybe I know something that is not being revealed to others yet who know? You must do what you must do and know it will always be the right decision. The only time I feel life is difficult for me is when I am either focusing in the future or the past tense. When there is discord in my being I find myself always having moved away from the now. We are very time like orientated and this could be why we fear that there will not be enough time to do what we wish to achieve. I try not to have concept of time but still function on time through practice. In the moment I only have to focus on the breath I take in to supply my oxygen and the one that I have just expired I know can never be retrieved again. I can only eat one meal at a time I can only wear one garment at a time and so on. I no longer think, will there be enough for the next moment or tomorrow? I just know it will be there because it is always provided for me for as long as I need it. Somehow it always is and always has been so. I am energy and energy does not die so even if it did get to the stage where I would have nothing to sustain the physical there will always be the present for me because I am part of the supreme that cannot be destroyed as everyone else is including you. With this thought of just being there is no room to really worry about anything much. Be and feel all you do and let it always be for the best only. I believe all is a constant cycle and recycle and nothing ever really ends and that to every end is a new beginning and it all happens in its own good time. We can make it anything we want it to be in our world and that is what we are all wanting to achieve. Yes by all means make it better and easier if you need to but remember resistance to arguements will only enhance it. To every action there is an equal reaction.

I guess I am trying to say. I hate when my ego kicks in and switches off when I am getting told off. Or when my ego kicks in like when I dont want to smoke and I do or I eat bad food etc etc.

It didnt bother me about getting told off. I guess what I am trying to say is how do I let go off my ego the lies etc and go for the truth?

Watch yourself think, its a very subtle thing to do. When you do that, the ego cannot attach to anything, it cannot identify itself because you know its just crap. When you actually watch yourself think, you become present.

Like smoking, you can watch yourself smoke. You can watch your body inhale, you can watch your thoughts and feelings about it. When you do this, it will dissolve away naturally by itself over time because you cannot do anything that doesnt serve you and be concious about it. Like hitting your thumb with a hammer on purpose, you just wont do it.

I dont want this post to be too long, but i have a great example of watching myself think from just a couple days ago. I'll elaborate if you think it will help.

                thanks for reading....

Hi Tanja

Thanks for your post. It is the way I feel as well now. Even through work I slip away more than I really want. To read this feels good. Thanks.

Peter, just a small add. It works best with me when I do what you described, watch my thoughts, but not labeling them. This "not labeling" is a very important part for me to quickly watch just the thought and not to get caught up in other thoughts. Because when you don't label your thought, don't say this is good or bad, the mind can't grasp it any longer and the thought resolves. And so, through LoA, does the problem on the outside. If your thought is not there, the manifestation outside will resolve, it's like a miracle.

Even I am practicing this for a longer time I don't know why I got caught up in a huge problem with my boss last week. I guess subconsciously there were thoughts I was not aware of. But I think I should have been able to let it go quicker. It feels like some "thoughts" are swimming under water and when they come to the surface they can be dealed with. But that swimming "thought under water" manifests in life before it reaches the surface. That is somehow how I see it.

So I think practicing awareness will solve many problems like a miracle. And not like, well, I can be aware if I want and it is nice and so on, so why bother and be aware all the time. That is what my ego tells me in these days, LOL, to defend itself and getting busy after get caught up in a problem. The ego if very very tricky. Once you see it, it is like you said Paul, you can laugh about it.

So the first step you already did, be aware of your thoughts, now it is practicing the awareness or presence more. (my ego would tell me, well there is not enough time now, lol, but time does not exist, just the ever changing now)

Yep, a great post wanderer. Right on the money with labelling.

So you think that if you don't put a label to the ego, it shall work?

Paul, have a look at "A New Earth". That book explains more than I ever could in this thread. I think your ego questions will be anwered in there. It looks long and bland at a glance but it is very interesting.

Pretty much, you do not label, you detatch from any results and just watch the voices in your head and emotions coming up. When you change your perspective to observer you change from being your ego, to having it. It turns into just a voice, which you hear and feel. The feelings lose their power and fall away by themselves because you know its just crap.

Our problems are mostly ego based, we are attached to things, to outcomes, forms in life that we identify ourselves with to define who we are. The gambit of forms we attach to is enormous. However when you observe, you are that deeper self, the formless where happiness truly resides.

                    Thank for reading.....

Well you certainly don't have to give everything away. Posessions are fine as long as you are not identified with them. 

At one time in my life my car was part of me, I identified with it heavily. I would cruise the car shows just so I could get an ego fix of people looking at it, asking questions etc. Of course I understand it all now perfectly. I've out grown that mentality, she just sits in the garage now as a reminder, until Im ready to move her on to the next desperate soul.

Your ego will dissolve naturally when it no longer has power over you, there is no need to stuff it down anywhere.

They just don't get it Tania, nothing you can do about it.