Leaps forward are often preceded by desperate regressive steps backward.

A quote by Don Beck and Chris Cohen.

In this episode we're going to be talking about the ego backlash.

Actually, today I had a very different topic planned,

but I woke up and I was feeling so miserable. I had a cold all week and I still have the

sniffles and I also hurt my spine this week, twisted it somehow, so it was hard for me to sit and to meditate all week,

but I was kind of like suffering through the pain.

And then, and then towards the end of the week now, I'm getting this ego backlash from a lot of meditation and

self-enquiry which is kind of fucking with my mind and so I thought well

this would be the perfect time to talk about ego backlash since I'm going through it right now.

So here we are.

So let's talk about this and this is a very practical matter because if you're going deep down the self actualization journey, if you're going

into spirituality, you will experience many ego backlashes in your life and so you want to be prepared for them.

I want you to start to think of the human mind as a harmonic oscillator.

In physics, a harmonic oscillator is like a simple spring where you pull back the

spring and you let it go and it kind of goes boom boom boom back and forth or like

a rubber band that's called a harmonic oscillator. So that's what

your mind is. See the mind is a very complex system filled with all sorts of

symbols and meanings that you create about your life.

And this is really what the ego is. We're talking about the ego mind here.

This is like your entire life. We're talking about the heart, the engine that drives your entire life. We're talking about the heart, the engine that drives your entire life that holds your entire life

together.

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