Cracking The Spiritual Ego
The more wise (and emotionally intelligent you become), the more perspectives you can hold without needing to be right about the overarching perspective you hold/know as your personal truth.
You can see a tapestry of truths that match where an individual is in their journey knowing it is perfect for them to experience even if it does not match the truth you are currently met with in your journey.
An ever deepening wise perspective must encompass graduating degrees of truth with compassion, grace and understanding or you risk the spiritual ego’s need to be right.
The spiritual ego’s need to be right is one of the final things that must be cracked, seen through and released to ground more deeply in wisdom and unconditional love.
The spiritual ego is a trap that remains on the journey as you continue with each upward turn of the spiral of awakening.
It’s a sneaky way ego can re-embed itself in your journey and become a blindspot.
It can look like judging someone’s understanding of truth as it relates to where they are when you know there are limits to what currently feels like an ultimate truth to them…
There’s a sense of superiority in this judgement and any superiority is always a motive of ego.
It can feel like wanting to share a truth that obliterates theirs just so you can feel right (versus knowing and trusting in what truths are relevant to where someone is in their journey).
It takes discipline and vigilance to continually be mindful of these traps and to purge them from operating in you.
This ever deepening wise perspective encompasses the capacity to understand how these facets of truth play a role in the advancement of each soul’s journey.
This ever deepening wise perspective respects what is being called forth and what isn’t being called forth to be shared.
It knows when it’s appropriate to expand someone’s perspective by challenging a relative truth and when it’s inappropriate (not being called forth) to challenge a relative truth because that relative truth is currently serving that soul’s growth.
Knowing when to say something and when not to is about the other person and what they’re calling forth from you; it’s never about your own need to be right, seen, understood, etc.
All these subtle movements have to be noticed, observed and contemplated so you can clear a path for what serves the highest in the moment vs what ego wants out of the moment.
This is aligning with divine intelligence and trusting its flow through you.
Vigilance through self-observation only increases as your responsibility to divine intelligence deepens.
It’s what purifies you as a conduit…the constant emptying out of your own ego.
These are things I’ve made a habit of becoming aware of in myself so that I’m constantly in a position to notice them and do something about these motives.
At this stage in my journey, doing something about these motives looks like noticing ego’s desire to be right, to judge, to do something that’s boosting itself versus seeing the good in what is occurring in the person’s journey (or group of people’s journey) that ego is trying to judge.
Usually the observation in conjunction with my desire to see the good that is occurring and how perfect that particular movement of soul growth is for that person or group is enough for me to release ego’s motives.
If it doesn’t immediately drop, I pray to purge it from me. I pray for purification. This is me showing my willingness to let go. And then it’s just a matter of time before the energy around the judgment passes through and dissipates and I genuinely see the good in what my ego was previously judging for it’s own purposes.
This process is available for you no matter if you find yourself judging yourself or another. It’s about your openness to see and let go of what is occurring in favor of coming from a more pure state within yourself. One based in love, light and wisdom.
For some reason, this is the message that wanted to come through today.
May it meet you wherever your are and serve you in the highest.
And before I let you go, I wanted to recommend a new podcast to you!
Conversations To Flourish is hosted by Katie, a woman who has recently gone on a deep transformative journey through an intense commitment to her self-healing. In her own words she went from “a rose with thorns to a rose without thorns”.
She shares and speaks with a sweet purity that delights in what healing has offered her and encourages others to open up to their own journey knowing this joy is available to all who choose themselves through their personal healing journey.
She’s relatable (her opening story likely resonates with every woman who has dated the wrong guy but didn’t want to let go), funny, open (vulnerable…something that she hardly allowed herself to be prior to embarking on this path), full of faith (creating this podcast was her stepping out in faith), love and hope.
This podcast focuses on our shared journey of self-forgiveness, self-acceptance and self-love while also being open to creating a life in alignment with our heart’s desires.
It’s dedicated to her two young nieces and the generation of girls they represent (which includes my niece!) in hopes that they always know their innate worth and listen to their inner voice. I thought this was such a beautiful context to create the podcast in!
Have a beautiful week and…
Always Shine Brightly,
Shanna
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