Category: ego
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Art and the Artist
As some of you may know, I am an amateur artist in that I don’t sell my art work professionally. My interest in art began as a form of emotional healing and art therapy. It has helped me tremendously to tap into my right brain where I believe emotional healing can take place. As I…
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The Siren
Today, I attended the exhibit of Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917) one of the most influential sculptures of our time. He is most well known for his sculptures “The Thinker” and “The Kiss.” I, however, found his siren sculptures to be most intriguing. The myth was that sirens through their songs lured seamen off their…
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Finding Your Higher Path
We have all walked down the wrong path before on our spiritual journeys, and lost our way from our higher path, I am no exception. Before we realize that we are walking in the wrong direction and end up in failed careers, relationships, marriages, and other endeavors, being expelled from school, or end up in…
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Dark Night of the Soul
When I first heard of Dark Night of the Soul, I thought it is an emotional nightmare or horrible physical ailment that we suffer during our spiritual journey. Many have interpreted it as such, but I believe it is neither. Dark Night of the Soul is when we come to realize that everything we believe…
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Where Ego Is Not
Within each of us is great courage and strength that even we are unaware and may never truly believe is within us. When we face our adversities and fears, we transcend our smaller selves or ego to a new life with many potentials and possibilities through our higher selves or essential selves. Our higher selves…
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What is Meant for You
Our egos have minds of their own as they have their desires and dependencies/attachments, want to be right, and want to control others. My observing is that everything I thought I wanted turned out the opposite to what I believed would happen. My ego was the driving force of my fears and consequential running away…
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Why I Stop Running . . .
For a very long time, I ran from my life. My childhood was filled with abuse and trauma, and my adult life was not much better with divorce, failed relationships, unfulfilling career, and strained friendships. Well, why wouldn’t I run from this? What I was running from was my unresolved emotional pain and fears from…
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Rising above Our Problems
Within the last few months, I have begun to shift into the next phase of emotional healing on my spiritual journey. This feeling is so dramatically different from anything else I have ever experienced in this lifetimes or my past lifetimes. During the past four years, I have worked through much darkness from my past…
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Steps in Overcoming Fear
Fear is the most limiting of all emotions, and most of us operate our lives based in fear without much awareness. That is, our behaviors, reactions, and decisions are determined by our fears created by our past emotional pain, trauma, or abuse. Fear is a negative emotion created by our ego. Therefore, we do not…
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