Ego vs Inspiration

What is intuition?

Intuition is the direct perception of truth. The underlying assumption is that you are perfectly safe and secure as you are.

Intuition knows that you live in a world of abundance and you need not look for happiness outside of yourself. It assumes there is plenty to go around, and that when you gain, so does everyone else.

Intuition comes from the inside out. It urges you toward joyful self-expression.

Intuition is heart-centered. It doesn’t bother with justification because it expects you to recognize it as truth. If you attempt to debate with it, it will merely give you the same answer again.

Our intuition always comes from a place of love and security. The focus will be on expressing yourself, not on gaining control of a situation.

Your intuition speaks to you about information that is always encouraging you towards living your best life and experiencing more love. The ego only speaks of information that is judgmental, analytical, and lacking. Again using the example above, your intuition would respond favorably if your passion project is part of your highest path and will lead you to learn and grow and love yourself more. Your ego would respond in a judgmental manner, listing examples why it’s not reasonable to be devoting your time to a passion project.

Your intuition speaks to you about information that is always encouraging you towards living your best life and experiencing more love. The ego only speaks of information that is judgmental, analytical, and lacking.

An identity of your own construction

The ego is a false identity that is rooted in fear. The underlying assumption is that the world is unsafe.

The ego assumes you live in a world of scarcity, which means you must compete to live the good life. In the eyes of the ego, the world is comprised of winners and losers, rich and poor, successful and unsuccessful.

The ego’s focus is from the outside in. It must have external results to feel good—I will be happy when I have money, success and the house of my dreams.

The voice of ego comes from your head. It needs to justify itself to you through logic and it will engage you in a mental debate to prove that it’s right.

Ego is of this physical world and our belief in the manipulation and learnings are what keeps it fresh and in our faces. Inspiration is of the spiritual world we originally came from, and thanks to ego, have forgotten.

Ego is defined as your idea or opinion of yourself, especially your feeling of your own importance and ability.

Ego is however defined as self-esteem itself. Yet, this term is used in the negative; i.e. ‘you have a big ego’ or stop being so ‘egoistic’ or ‘your ego is the size of an elephant’.

The ego always assumes the world is an unsafe place and it will do anything to keep you safe! Protecting us and creating boundaries is important but the ego tends to go a little overboard and keep us paralyzed rather than taking action even on things we truly want to do! The ego creates a false sense of control, which can be difficult to let go of!