TRIGGERED! When your ego causes you suffering
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The ego's primary agenda is to make sure you're keeping up appearances, looking good to others, being accepted, and maintaining the status quo. Therefore, the ego is constantly on the lookout for anything that might threaten your sense of identity.
In this episode, we'll explore:
- what is the ego?
- the mechanisms the ego uses to try to maintain the status quo and avoid risk & discomfort
- some of the common lies and illusions your ego might tell you
- how the ego causes suffering
- how to help yourself transcend your ego - or at least shift your relationship to it
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, |
| 0:13.0 | driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. |
| 0:19.0 | To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com. |
| 0:25.1 | If you feel called to support the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:30.8 | I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:38.3 | Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:44.3 | Despite the title of this episode, which is, |
| 0:49.3 | when your ego causes you suffering, I don't want to demonize the ego. In psychological terms, the ego is actually a very |
| 0:57.9 | necessary and important part of us, the part that carries our self-knowledge and self-understanding, |
| 1:04.7 | the part that helps us interact with the world around us, basically the ego as our human personality with all of its characteristics. |
| 1:14.4 | Becoming aware of your ego, of your separateness from other people as an individual being, |
| 1:20.1 | is seen in psychology as a key developmental stage. |
| 1:24.5 | That moment when the baby or infant looks in the mirror for the first time |
| 1:30.4 | and realizes that she is separate from mom. She is separate from mom's body, that she has her |
| 1:36.6 | own body, that she is an individual person in the world. So as you grow up, your ego becomes |
| 1:43.9 | composed of many different things, including your understanding, in the world. So as you grow up, your ego becomes composed |
| 1:45.0 | of many different things, including your understanding |
| 1:48.9 | of yourself, the narratives and stories |
| 1:51.6 | that you tell and believe about yourself and your life, |
| 1:56.0 | your physical appearance and attributes, |
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