Category: spiritual practice
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Releasing Ego and Coping with Fear
As I am working through releasing my ego, I have periods of fear, anxiety, and panic. These feelings arise around the loss of relationships, friends, and the life I now know. I have lived with my ego for this entire lifetime and many lifetimes before this. How will I cope, who will I become, and…
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Life as a Quest
When we travel on our spiritual journeys, we are on a quest to learn about ourselves and change within. Through this journey we begin to unfold and learn about ourselves through others and our experiences. There are many layer to this unfolding, and as we reveal each layer of ourselves, we view ourselves and our…
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Reliving Childhood
For those of us who suffered childhood abuse, we had a pretty difficult and stressful childhood. Psychologists believe that we will remain at the emotional age of when we were traumatized until we heal those past emotional wounds. As we recover emotionally and begin to heal from our past, we experience that part of our…
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Ego’s Veil
When we begin to lose ego, there are signs along the way. One is the need for approval from those we love, our authority figures, our peers, and those we admire. At some point, we just don’t need it anymore. It’s not that we don’t appreciate the approval, but we simply don’t need it anymore.…
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Accepting Faith
This has been a very difficult emotional week for me with lots of soul searching and doubting my own faith in my life. I left my old life to begin anew in a city that I knew no one, heard an inner calling to move here to do my spiritual work, and heard my calling…
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Death and Rebirth
I am grappling with the idea of death as in ego death, since this is the next phase of my spiritual work. To be honest, it scares me or maybe it scares my ego. I have never existed without ego, don’t know how it will feel, or who I will become after ego death. I…
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Living Our Normal Life
This morning, I was thinking about working on ego release, and began reading some blogs on this issue. I came upon this question by someone who was struggling through ego death and was deciding whether to live or die. The answer from someone to this person was, try to do something fun and live your…
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Our Outward Facades
During a conversation with a friend, I told him that I tend to attract men who are very controlling because my father always needs to control everything and everyone around him, can be abusive, and also suffers from addictions. My friend thought that my father has an aggressive personality. I told him that it is…
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Along the Awakening Path
It is this incredibly courageous journey that we travel to unfamiliar and uncomfortable places in the quest for our truth. On this journey, it is trusting that we will attract exactly what we need exactly when we need it whether a teacher, friend, job, or whatever, and accepting each person and event as a teacher…
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