Ego is the part of our mind that keeps us
wanting which in turn produces pride, sadness, anger, worry, insecurity
and judgementalism towards others. The source of any negativity can be
traced to the ego. It literally is a heartless taskmaster that drains one’s emotional energy.
For the ego, the answer is always “out there”. We subscribe to its edicts in hopes that it will fill the void in us that we so desperately want to be filled. “Follow my prescribed path, for then, will you receive that which you seek for”,
says the ego. But to our chagrin, we discover that the happiness or the
freedom promised by the ego is nothing but an unreachable mirage.
The simple fact of the matter is that, the ego is a bully
and bullies are epic weaklings within their core. It thrives on
imprisoning the heart, but it does so by not realizing the fact that the heart has the power to rewrite the mind.
Freedom begins
when we realize that the heart is infinitely more powerful than the
mind. Authentic emotional freedom has nothing to do with anything that
comes from without. Nothing and not one human being can grant us
freedom. Freedom is experienced from within.
One way to experience that freedom is by loving unconditionally.
Love is a power source that transforms our mind. It is similar to the
water gushing out of a hose. Before the water hits the plant, it
saturates the hose from within. When we meditate and speak negativity,
no matter how justified we think we are with our assertions or how
factual we think the thought is, the negativity soils our mind and binds
us. But when we proactively and unconditionally love, it saturates us
first and sets us free, free to be ourselves and to be effective
conduits of Love.
