You are greater than your ego. Ego is simply a tool for the mechanics of life. Ego is an essential part of the separation from the source birthing into this life experience. Learning how to co=create between the ego and the spirit is indeed a blissful union within a hologram – projected by source as a playground for expansion.
I have been getting to know my ego really well, I’ve watched it for years, sometimes it thought it had me fooled that I wasn’t watching, but I always was!
Then came a day when it would have been so eager to have taken the lead, thrown a blood curdling screaming tantrum and totally rejected the spirit it had been surrendering to. It was the seemingly perfect opportunity to gain the balance of power… and do you know what it did? It sat meekly in the corner with a look of “I’ll just be over here if you need me Spirit!”
I was calmly integrated. I felt good being given the type of news that devastates most people who hear it. A secure, 7 yr tenure at a well paying job close to home – newly redundant. Sure its not the death of a loved one or infliction of near fatal injury, but for me it really should of been heartbreaking.
I worked in field of interest, without a degree, without training in most of what I did, just experience, hard work and being a resourceful learner. It was a cultural slash marketing field and I loved it. Full time salaried roles like that in my city were rare back then. So I knew people who would have bent over backwards to have it. Here I was having stumbled into it and being in the right place at the right time as a huge number of synchronicities unfolded into a melting pot of contrast. My ego was like Homer at a buffet, kept me busy for years!
Something so eternal as, oh i dunno, my soul, had the patience to wait years as the unassuming schemer, a cosmic game of chess manouvuering, step by step cornering ego into total undeniable submission.
My spirit uses my ego as a tool more often than not these days. It still acts like a pouty child not wanting to do the chores sometimes. Well most of the time. And spirit is learning to crack the whip just the right spot on ego’s ass to move it.
As ego plays such a crucial role in our ability to experience being a human, it incorrectly assumes it has control. The spirit has no concept of time unlike ego. Spirit see’s the bigger picture of your life and ego can only see whats in front of your body let alone whats around the corner.
I may just be legit split personality but for me, disassociating my ego from my true self makes it easier for me to catch it before it spoils the fun.
This is how I learned discipline.
Being the youngest of 4 kids meant I got away with not doing a lot. I learned the hard way time and time again for about 38yrs. I was aware of the need for it, I just always managed to scrape through without having to be disciplined.
Then the cord was cut and the space opened in my life like a ripple in the ocean, it just kept going. Spirit knew the stakes. Like an owner of a sometimes disobedient fluffly white dog, the tone of voice changed and ego did as it was told.