YOUR EGO: Know and Respect it.

File: 12 - Seminar 1

Know, Respect, and Discipline

Your EGO.

Is it running your show, creating interference and problems for you, or, contributing its best by accepting a position as part of your Identity Team?

Rules, Expectations, Assumptions --- of Your Ego:
Impulsiveness: short-term participation with high emotional involvement;
Decision reactivity: Fight, Flight, or Fright to a perceived threat;
Control: always wants acknowledgement, recognition, acceptance, authority;
Identity is tied to material worth: territory, possessions, status, affiliation;
Sexual opportunities are exciting, fun, energizing, co-dependent, sensual;
Disappointments are perceived as the responsibility and creation of others;
Simplicity rules: right or wrong, good or bad, with me or against me.

Potential Benefits, (from Dinosaur Brains, by Albert J. Bernstein):
... predictable, spontaneous, dependable;
... can be fun, exciting, elating, infatuating;
... can energize, arouse, and stimulate enthusiasm;
... offers nonstop action, no ambiguity, no wasted effort;
... supplies a lot of force and conviction, motivation;
... enjoys feelings of affiliation, loyalty, and pride;
... is very powerful.

Frequent Errors, (from Dinosaur Brains, by Albert J. Bernstein):
... can't tolerate waiting, boredom, repetition, >> no patience or planning;
... self-centered, only focus is one's own needs, >> no empathy, compromise;
... cannot tell reality from fantasy, attracted to imagination grown from desire;
... over-competitiveness >> overly sensitive & defensive & abrasive;
... always wants to do the easiest and least frightening stuff first;
... makes no distinction between the name of an object and the object;
... always wants what is attractive and perceived to be available;
... often made destructive by toxic shame >> perfectionism, co-dependencies;
... doesn't want to learn >> assumes it knows enough, everything;
... supports prejudice, intolerance, racism >> genocide, and wars;
... can turn everything into a crisis.

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