Ego Depth: The journey beyond ego death
Finding your identity beyond the constructs that you’ve created for yourself in this life.
The experiences that you’ve been through that has shaped your mentality. I believe that we are always true to our nature but it is the mentality that is created in response.
This is why traumatic events have such a pull in our minds because we use these triggers to identify what role a person, place, or thing plays in our lives. We can call it an energy signature.
Energy signature is something that is recognized, even if it appears to be in a different form. For example, when we dream, no matter how distorted or “off” a person may look you’ll always be able to tell who they represent by how their energy makes you feel.
Our emotions, thoughts, and feelings get recycled. We know that energy cannot be destroyed.
When we were children we trust the guidance of our parents, family, and whoever we looked up to, to help us understand this world. We can only learn this life through experience anyway. So the influence of what was around us became the normal reality that we existed in. Our little mental boxes that our minds collected and labeled become a part of our perspective
So part of our identity is our true nature, who we are at the core but this gets filtered through whatever we use to relate ourselves to what we see.
For me I was raised In the church, so christianity was what I identified with throughout my childhood. Everything I did, eventually filtered through my conviction that was learnt in the church. My parents instilled this outlook
Burdens of Self and Others
Now we all pick up on other people’s feelings and such so we are all empathic. We can also identify with how other people make us feel
This is why bullying is so traumatic because we often personalize ourselves to how we are treated. Even the strongest person in the world emotionally, has that one person that has the potential to destroy that confidence. People can use these triggers against you.
Not everyone has allowed themselves to analyze their own traumas, when you suppress those growing pains you end up embodying how they feel to you.
So now your awareness of self is trapped in the subconscious, it’s inactive. Your awareness is your clarity, so you’re reliving these burdens because you won’t allow yourself to see through your hurt. Blinded by the pain.
Growth requires awareness, acceptance, adaptability. Age doesn’t matter. You can be 50 years old and your mind is trapped inside the mental space of who you were when you were 10 years old.
Love does not exist without self-love. I cannot give you what I haven’t given to myself ok we know this
Our identity is neither past, present, nor future. We cannot solidify ourselves because we live in these three simultaneously.
We have to redefine what we consider to be present reality
Our present is our presence, me presenting myself
So my identity is the awareness of myself.
Someone could say “Oh well then my identity is present because I’m being present.” But listen to that. You don’t just exist you are experiencing your existence. So while you are YOU, you are also the reflection. That is timeless because it’s continuous. I cannot exist if I don’t exist in the future and in the past.
Open your heart and Clean your space
Maintain that connection with yourself that no one else can reach. Leave a part of you that is only meant for you to experience and understand. That creates that special relationship, that self love