Ego Evolution - The Reasons Behind And The Plan To Build A Healthy Ego

Moving Ahead
Courage comes from the French word “corge”meaning hear and
spirit. So courage is really about acting from your heart and spirit –
from the centre of your being – your true identity hiding a person’s
ego.
Fear can prevent us from acting with courage. If people have regrets
they usually represent times in our lives when they have allowed
fearful insecurity to undermine the courageous choice.
Recognizing that we all have regrets, the task then is develop courage
and the trust that going for it is better than dying without it. This is
the difference between the heart and the mind. Learning to stay
focused in the present won’t eliminate fear but it can at least prevent
people from being stuck in fear. Fear blocks courage.
As courage consciousness matures in an individual or organization
there will be large shifts in the perspective about fear. Courage will
cradle actions and will allow people to validate the choice of their
actions.
In order to develop courage and overcome fear there needs to be a
focus on personal development. It is important to get an increasingly
accurate view of reality by understanding how reality works and by
interacting with reality. People should focus on their goals and
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objectives and become stronger to be capable of achieving greater
success and happiness.
It is important that we should develop our courage. We can be afraid
but then we must call on our courage to follow our objectives. Such
strength is undefeatable.
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Chapter 4:
Serve Others To Develop Your Ego
Synopsis
The word ego has a negative connotation. It is often equated with
“false self” that image of a person that they have created by
themselves.
Ego is accepted as a root cause of many of our delusions and
sufferings. Ego is often used to describe the tendency to over inflate a
person’s self image and is often linked to greed. It implies that an
individual loves themselves so much that they would attempt to try to
realize their ambitions to the detriment of others.
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Help Out
Many spiritual leaders believe in the wisdom of weakening the ego.
Such persons are outnumbered by others who emphatically state that
we must all build even stronger egos as our egos are our character and
we should aim for having a strong character with well defined
attributes.
Such people believe that one way of building a stronger ego is in the
direction of serving others. They believe that the stronger that an ego
becomes the more an individual should push themselves to help other
people.
By individuals who are capable of undertaking good works or acts of
philanthropy such people offer a necessary service to weaker
members of society.
By making service to others part of an individual’s identity they
further build and strengthen their own ego in a very positive way.
There are numerous organizations such as Lions or Round Table that
seek to work in this way.
There is nothing negative about serving others. How can there be?
Whilst doing good works can indeed make some individuals feel good
this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Even if a person’s ego is strengthened by serving others that is not
negative. The positives of the person’s actions far outweigh any big
headedness that unkind people might say they have adopted.
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It is far better for an ego to be strengthened and a needy individual to
be assisted that for the needy person to be ignored.
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Chapter 5:
Engage With Life
Synopsis
To engage with life means to awaken one to the opportunities that are
present in life. The key to staying engaged with life means to stay
hungry for life. If we lose our hunger then there is a danger that we
will become apathetic and we will no longer challenge ourselves and
instead we may just sit back and fail to achieve our real potential.