#441 – What does your Ego gain when it paralyzes you?

When your Ego is triggered, it assumes the situation causing its fear will last forever. This shortsightedness makes the fear feel absolute, no way out.

In this catastrophic scenario, the best course of action is inaction. Or autopilot action.

If only your Ego would snap out of its trance, it could see that nothing lasts forever, and even the most disquieting, hard-as-hell things come to pass.

But your Ego can't snap out of its trance because trance is how it lives, its operative system. If it keeps you stuck for at least a moment, it scores a win: Ego, 1; True Self, 0.

Last night, a cold chill––peri-menopause, ugh!––woke me up. I shivered, curled into a ball, my skin painfully hardened, and despair washed over me. What if I've lost my internal thermostat forever? Will I always be cold?

Needless to say, that was my Ego talking, yes, forever cold.

Sad about what I'd lost (my youth, I guess), I feared getting out of bed in my subtropical-appropriate pajamas (spaghetti-strap top and shorts), but I needed to use the bathroom. So, mustering all my courage, I got up.

The mere movement snapped me out of the trance––oh, this is just a cold chill, pfff! And I swatted the baseless fear away.

But because I moved physically, I left it behind, kicking and screaming. In a few moments, the cold chill passed.

What do you gain every time you leave your Ego behind, kicking and screaming?

Love,

Carolina