Ego Conditioning and Our Souls

I choose to hold the idea that we are souls having a human experience. As I've written before, I think we muddy our souls' purpose in the muck of our human experience, and it's our job to clear the waters and get to what our souls are really here to do.

In order to do that, our first step is to recognize this truth (no matter what your religion or ideology), and begin differentiating your ideas of what the "self" really is.

In all our experiences, many of us feel there's a deeper meaning behind what it is to be human, and what we're supposed to be doing with this life we've had the privilege of living.

We're born unto wounded children, who were born unto other wounded children. As we awaken, we see our experiences from this perspective, and we recognize that we don't have to continue our journeys with the same programming that we've known all of our lives. There's a way to undo that programming so our souls can be given the chance to fully express themselves before we leave this earth. And trust me, nothing but GOOD things happen when our consciousness expands- allowing our souls to have full expression. Only love lives there.

But if we don't take on the responsibility of reparenting ourselves, loving the parts of us that we've learned to shove away in a corner somewhere because our parents (uh, em, wounded children of other wounded children) raise us with programming that they didn't have full awareness of, we can't harmonize with our soul's true purpose.

Our ego is our sense of self. When someone says, "Who are you?" and you respond with your name, what you do for a living, and your background- that's all ego. It's how you differentiate from the people and world around you. Our egos not only give us a sense of self, they help us facilitate the work our souls want to perform here on earth.

But our egos are faulty. They glitch pretty often. They have conditioning that must come undone. The conditioning we experience does more than just give us a sense of self, it separates us TOO much from the world around us. Incites reaction to stimuli that feel threatening. Sometimes those threats simply come through the way someone looks at us. Sometimes those threats are from memories past, that don't deserve a seat at our table as we explore what we want to do with our lives.

Once we recognize that we have layers of ourselves to peel back, to love, to heal- that's when we really hear our souls speak to us. Every familiar sadness, every fear, is an invitation to love parts of our humanness that need healing. When we heal, we free our souls from our wounded egos and we expand, and we get back to what really matters. And we often realize that all that ever mattered, was love.