The ego expresses itself through imagination and thoughts
by Atman Nityananda
The ego uses thoughts and imagination to express itself and to experience pleasure and pain and, in general, vibrations that correspond to its nature.
More specifically, to experience emotions and feelings of joy, happiness, satisfaction, pleasures (sexual, gustatory, etc.) or painful emotions (anger, fear, jealousy, etc.) by remembering or imagining unpleasant, pleasant or pleasurable sensory experiences.
The ego projects and superimposes on thoughts and imagination the pleasure or emotion it wants to experience, creating at the same time the illusion that what we experience is an objective reality.
If, through mindfulness inquiry and discernment, we distinguish and dissociate emotion (impulse, feeling, desire, pleasure) from thoughts and imagery then we prevent projection, superimposition and identification from occurring, and our ego will not be able to live what it wants as it wants. We further realize the illusory character of the experience that projection, superimposition and identification are creating.
The more we prevent the ego (in the form of pleasure, desire, impulse, emotion, lasciviousness, gluttony, anger, fear, etc.) from projecting itself, and the more we are aware of this mechanism and the illusory nature of the experience, the more this mechanism of projection, superimposition and identification will weaken, and the less we will be fascinated and identified with the emotions and projections of the mind. And to the extent that we stop identifying with them, the energetic field of emotions and pleasure will diminish.
But, according to my experience, to advance firmly and decisively in the elimination of egoistic tendencies, it is necessary to use various methods to stop identifying ourselves with them and eliminate them with prayer and/or mantra (which I consider the most effective, especially to use them moment by moment) and others such as EFT (tapping) and the dissolution of egoistic tendencies in the 49 levels of the subconscious mind.
The ‘secret’ to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
🌺 Peace, Love, Harmony
atmannityanada 