Manager to Leader in Your Own Life

The ego, Sarah Alexander says, is the ‘manager’ of our lives. It is described in many ways: ‘who we think we are’, the ‘us’ that does the thinking, the ‘me’ that chatters away in our heads, the ‘I’ that we use to describe ourselves. It is also our false sense of self, derived from all that we perceive about ourselves based on our lives so far. Underpinning all this is the ego’s belief that it is separate — a body, mind and nothing more. At its core, it has one basic emotion: fear, that manifests as anger, grief, shame, guilt, etc. The ego has an endless list of wishes. It believes that our happiness and fulfilment can only be found in the supply of these things, which it will never find.

 

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