When wondering about the term – spiritual ego along with spiritual materialism and spiritual narcissism in various articles and literature works, these are often portrayed in a bad light as something that we want to avoid. It is shown as that manipulating and really abusive entity that is hiding beneath your mask of spirituality. So let us know what is spiritual ego?
Spiritual Ego is almost same as the non-spiritual ego, they both give you a clearer understanding of how your ego reshape and reinvent itself to make it sure that you are perceiving yourself through its lens. Understanding your spiritual ego, trying to get a message from it, embracing it and moving away from it would prove to be one of the best steps you could take on your spiritual transformation journey.
Let us explore what does spiritual ego is all about!
WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL EGO?
The EGO is the concept of “I”. It is who you perceive or believe yourself to be as. It is basically the sum of all your beliefs which you carry about yourself. It is all your personality, your abilities, skills and your overall worth.
One having a spiritual ego is one whose mind is infused with more of spiritual ideas and belief system. It is your idea and the identity you carry for being as spiritually evolved. Earlier you might have seen yourself in a low light, as unworthy and undeserving but now you believe yourself as a part of a whole. You now experience love, gratitude and lot of appreciation.
Therefore, spiritual beliefs act like a blueprint, showing you the design concept of who you are and who you should be as. Basically, it is all about how you believe the world to be, what you think is good and how you differentiate that from things that are bad. How you see the world, through what lens and how you interact with others in day-to-day life.
Spiritual ego is carrying out those activities which your ego mind commands you to do. It means deriving meaning and generating your worth solely on that meaning itself. Here the difference is that, the tricky part where you believe you would overcome your ego and become the best altruistic self.
But I believe, “anyone who operates based on ego-consciousness knows that he or she does not know himself or herself fully. While, the ego only know its own contents, and not the unconscious one and its contents.”
As the ego only carries the idea of what you are, who you are and what you can do but IT IS NOT YOU! It is simply the filter that lets you see the world and react to it the way it shows you as. Suppose you are having a spiritual filter, of a successful entrepreneur filter or say you are having a loser filter and such and such filter would determine how you would experience the outer world and your entire self as well. So as long as you are identified with it, you are allowing that filter to control you, or say, your mind!
So it is when you learn to let go beyond your mind, which I carry out in my weekly Zoom Meditation, you try to learn how to separate your ego from all its doings. You try to then identify yourself with the true essence of who YOU are! You are the one who contains the mind and many other parts of you. Remember, it is not the mind that contains YOU!
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So to do this practically, you need to better understand how does the mind works and how is this spiritual ego created from?
HOW IS SPIRITUAL EGO CREATED?
So do you find yourself stuck in this thought of “how did I get myself stuck in this spiritual ego situation, when I have been doing well enough and all my intentions were good!”. No doubt, they were! But committing to a spiritual journey of letting the ego go away and taking the huge leap of faith to want more for yourself, for your better self, it surely would not be easy but definitely be worth it!
But do you not think that there is something called destiny or fate? So, this is the way it has shown up in my life, so let me face it head on? Why to counter it or make life better? Just lets simply accept it for what it is! That is exactly how your ego mind morphs and try to fit in when it sees you are shunning the old idea of yourself.
Have you not experienced spiritual awakening where all your old beliefs were broken down and shattered to give birth to a new YOU? Yes, it is a process! It is not linear; it takes time to settle. But it is a major breakthrough to understand your true self and your ultimate life purpose at least for this current birth.
So let us look at some practical scenarios where the spiritual ego gets created and how, let us understand it better:
- GETTING SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE UPGRADE
Somewhere, sometime, on this spiritual rollercoaster journey, you might have felt as if there is something bigger than you. Something that makes you feel that you have outgrown your old self and do not fit back to the old you!
You get the deeper knowing which is simply beyond words. Your heart feels at peace and is oozing with love. You feel this strange thread of connectedness.
You receive experiences that questions your old beliefs and slowly yet gradually disrupts your entire belief system. It creates a strong emotional impact on you. You try to understand life and your way of living in a different perspective altogether.
- SLOWLY YET SURELY RECEIVING ANSWERS TO WHAT ALL YOU HAVE BEEN WONDERING – SPIRITUAL EGO
You get that understanding partner or the community you have been so much longing for. You finally feel that someone who you do not know have clearly explained to you how your mind, the feeling of love and this mysterious Universe are working in sync. It is all the answers YOU have been looking for since so long!
Finally, you got the answers, you got the truth, you got your true belief system and a model on which you would be living rest of your life.
- INCREASING YOUR BELIEF
To focus on getting your belief system sorted out but by not removing the old beliefs and simply adding newer ones on top of it. It is similar to like adding layers to the cake. So simply adding new beliefs to the old ones without making changes in the Core – YOU, would not allow you to experience the freshness of a brand-new belief system.
Try to consciously reprogram yourself, and your ego to upgrade it to what you want and not what your ego wants you to be as.
- UPGRADING YOUR EGO SURVIVAL TECHNIQUE
So, when you are identified with your mind, even if its partially, you would try hard to capture this new experience and derive meaning out of it. Then you would update the idea of who you are and what you are revolving around this meaning.
Remember our ego is really sneaky and smart. It is built for surviving, so it would take all shapes and forms, morph, modify and alter with new and new experiences you have and will have in life. Suppose, your ego stays in this victim mode and all-time suffering, then if you try to move on to experiencing something new and feel gratitude and acceptance then let me tell you, here it would not be your ego!
DO NOT LEAK YOUR PERSONAL POWER – HAVE CONTROL!
Do not divide yourself, do not fool yourself by suppressing your innermost feelings. Hiding your old self and belief system would not make a way for the new ones. If you were living in a constant fear, guilt, shame, loser state of mind, basically in your lower energy centres then just to hide and suppress them would not work.
Slowly yet gradually take your energy centres to a higher state of vision, self-respect, self-love, truth, awareness and self-confidence. Do not try to trick and suppress your shadow self, in fact work on it. Get those positive vibes or generate it. Get that love, light, growth, abundance, consciousness, the world spirit, the GOD, the UNIVERSE and the Anima Mundi and your own high self, as it contains EVERYTHING!
If you still choose to operate from your lower energy centres then you are snatching away the right of your other half. Do not deny the right of your own other half. Why to deny happiness by choosing suffering and pain? Why inflict this self-harm? Else this way you are allowing your own power to go out of control and seep from both the ends.
STAY YOUR UNDIVIDED SELF – OPERATE FROM HIGHER ENERGY CENTRES
Choose to live from integrity for yourself, it is where your energy and entire frequency comes from the upper energy centres of your body. So, accept and wholly love yourself. Yes, even your dark shadow self. Love those untreated and shabby parts of yours. Those parts which are screaming for love and attention, those taboo and unwanted pieces of you which have been waiting for a ray of peace and self- acceptance.
So let both of your body halves be in sync, and help you release a good amount of power/vibes and transform you spiritually. So merge your conscious and unconscious, your feminine and masculine side, even your creation and destruction, both the mind and heart along with shades of light and dark. Make it balanced, make it in sync, make it to be in harmony, where you do not have to suppress one to feel the other!
So, when you achieve it, your personal power fuels from both the sides of your entire being and it would give immense peace to your heart which is called as living a heart-centered life. Living a life as a whole being. Thus, this brings your soul to its ultimate potential and fulfilling your life’s purpose.
