Reconnect to your Core: A practical guide on how to feel good and be happy. by Nibe Kristian

Author:Nibe, Kristian [Nibe, Kristian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2015-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

Human brain vs mammalian/reptilian brain

It’s important to see the ego as impersonal. It’s not You, it’s not personal, it’s merely the chatter of the mammalian and the reptilian brain. Everyone’s ego is more or less the same. It’s main concern is survival and therefore it makes sense that it’s «thinking» thoughts all the time with this goal in mind. When you view the ego in this way it’s easier to appreciate the childlike and naive qualities it has.

Hawkins states that often times what people perceive to be their problems and symptoms are merely the result of thoughts that the ego produces which people find disturbing, are ashamed of, or that trigger anxiety due to feelings that were created by identifying with these thoughts.

For example, if the ego creates thoughts of getting, winning, and being right, it might trigger hostility and murderous fantasies, which fuels anger and hence unconscious guilt, which again trigger anxiety and defense mechanisms. Our feelings are often based on an identification with an ego-pattern, because had the person been identified with the observing Self rather than his ego, many feelings would not have existed in the first place. Had he instead been identified with his observer he would have had the ability to recognize his animal need for getting and being right as the primitive and impersonal thoughts that they are, and perhaps have had a good laugh and congratulated the primitive tiger inside him that just wanted him to get and survive.

The task then for the ego-identified person is to feel all his animal feelings so that they no longer trigger anxiety and defenses. By becoming totally accepting and comfortable with his feelings he becomes able to develop an observing distance to his ego that he wasn’t capable of previously when parts of his ego made him anxious. When he accomplishes this he may later transcend the whole thing (i.e. the animal ego) in favor for a higher level of functioning (i.e. the Self).

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