What is Ego?

Another word for Ego is Small Mind, which is sourced in Survival Consciousness that experiences Fear and Scarcity. Freedom will not be achieved by trying to kill the ego or the small mind.

Ego or Small Mind isn’t something to be critical of and fought a battle against. More we fight it, shame it, resist it; more it will grow through a cyclical inner drama rotating between Helpless Child (Victim), Critical Parent (Fighter) and Over-functioning Rescuer. All these 3 roles in our emotional body are expressions of the small mind and the hole in our soul.

It’s only in moving towards our Light, our whole soul - made whole by filling the hole in our soul with our spiritual values - that we can break free from this inner drama, which is the source of all our misery, to be a Peaceful Warrior, an expression of our Thrival Consciousness that experiences Love and Abundance.

What are our Spiritual Values? These are our inner resources that we deeply value. We may not be able to vibrate with the energy of these inner resources all the time as yet but they have a deep resonance with us. Some examples of Spiritual Values are - Love, Gratitude, Reverence, Integrity, Mastery, Excellence, Authentic Vulnerability, Authenticity, Connection, Humility, Equanimity, Kindness, Generosity, Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy, Abundance, Gentleness, Inner Strength, Courage, Stillness, Peace, Calmness, Light, Truth, Honesty, Beauty, Balance, Harmony, Grace, Ease, Wisdom, Tranquility, Respect, Trust, Freedom, Contribution,

The outcomes we create is a function of which consciousness our actions and words are sourced in - Survival Consciousness (hole in the soul, small mind, Fear, Scarcity, Trapped, Struggle, mad / bad / sad emotional energy) or Thrival Consciousness (whole soul, big mind, Love, Abundance, Joyous Freedom, Ease and Grace, glad emotional energy).

The same actions and words with a different consciousness will give us different results.

Each human being is on a journey from Survival Consciousness to Thrival Consciousness, at their own pace, probably over many lifetimes, to maximise their human potential and be the highest version of themselves to make a massive difference. The difference we have made is the only way to measure how much of our potential we have realized. 

Why should we care about realizing our full potential? Because how fulfilled we are is a function of an experience of our own growth. Our maximum growth lies in realizing our full potential. Since our potential is limitless, the sky is the limit for our growth. That means there is no destination. Joyous fulfilment of experiencing our growth lies in being on the journey itself. It's when we stop in our Comfort Zone, that we fall off the journey and experience the emptiness of lack of meaning, purpose and fulfilment.

Our pace of growth is our choice and other people’s pace is their choice, not for us to judge them for their choice because when we judge, we fall off our path to our highest self. Yet, when we accelerate on our journey from good (Survival Consciousness) to great (Thrival Consciousness), we create space for others to accelerate on their good to great journey. When we step up to Gear 5 consciousness, people in our space step up to Gear 2 consciousness because a raised consciousness raises consciousness all around.

This journey from Fear to Love, Survival to Thrival, Good to Great is our Purpose each Lifetime and playing for 'Having it All' using the 3 growth levers - Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery, Business Excellence - is a beautiful game to enable this transformation.

i. Deeply fulfilling, successful, profitable business supporting us to live our purpose of life; gifting us with impact, contribution and financial freedom
ii. Loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work and at home
iii. Happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed
iv. Nourishing, nurturing ourselves to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being -physically, energetically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually
v. Making a massive difference through the work we do

Whenever we are feeling mad or bad or sad, we are judging ourselves or people around us. And, when we judge, we have fallen back to Gear 0 consciousness (Fear Consciousness). 

That does not mean we push the Bad / Sad / Mad feelings, which is an expression of our small mind and hole in the soul, under the carpet. What it means is that we acknowledge and embrace these feelings as our guardian angels as they are here to lead us to our higher consciousness by leaving us with no choice but to do our inner work for raising our consciousness to escape the misery and tyranny of these bad, sad, mad feelings.

It does not mean that we continue to suffer silently or complain loudly because suffering or complaining both mean that we are in Gear 0 consciousness because if we truly loved ourselves and experienced ourselves as extraordinary, we would take affirmative action to better our situation. 

Tough words and tough actions can come from a place of Love, Abundance and Joyous Freedom. And, when they do they can serve the other person’s evolutionary journey as well. Though, be aware of which energy you are acting and speaking from because the small mind can very easily masquerade as the voice of Inner Wisdom. Therefore, do your daily RYD Transformative practises like Yoga, Meditation, Journaling, Reflection and others based on the Leadership Gear you are at to increase your levels of self-awareness which is what consciousness means.

Keep being Love, Abundance and Joyous Freedom to joyously lead yourself and your businesses from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way 💜

Loving you,
j.