| it! I finally had the courage and saw it through. I never | | | | How do you tell the difference between ego and |
| thought I could. It worked! I can’t believe it | | | | intuition? |
| worked! | | | | Your intuition is relentless and cannot be budged from |
| These are the words of a woman I had been talking | | | | its position whereas the ego can be talked into and out |
| to about the behaviour of her teenage daughter. Her | | | | of anything. An example would be if your intuition told |
| child had become so difficult that the mother was | | | | you to pursue a particular career. No human on earth |
| desperate. I saw the solution quite clearly. It came to | | | | could truly talk you out of that feeling. They may be |
| me so strongly and firmly, controversially but I knew | | | | able to talk you out of following that feeling but never |
| from the deepest part of me it would work and the | | | | out of recognising that feeling. |
| two of them could resolve and have a brilliant | | | | It is often difficult to recognise which parts of you |
| relationship. | | | | operate from the ego self. In this case we will use |
| How did I know it was the right thing to say? How did I | | | | ego’ to loosely describe fear or fear-based |
| know it would resolve their difficulties? When your ego | | | | actions. Many of our fears operate without us fully |
| works in harmony with you it is easy for you to link | | | | participating or recognising what is taking place. |
| with and trust your intuition and psychic perceptions. | | | | When we start to develop our psychic skills, it is more |
| When the ego is out of control and too big for its | | | | difficult for the ego to take control. This is why many |
| boots, it hinders the natural path of intuition, intuitive | | | | people on the psychic path find it increasingly difficult to |
| instinct and psychic ability. The ego self will deny the | | | | deny their truth. They find it challenging to: stay in |
| presence of intuition and rely heavily on logic, reason | | | | situations or places that no longer suit; tell someone |
| and emotional fears rather than embrace higher | | | | they are being mean rather than ignore it; suddenly |
| thinking automatically. | | | | change a job that they’ve been meaning to do |
| When developing psychic ability, at some point or | | | | for the past five years. These are all signs that they |
| another, people go through a period of time when an | | | | are getting a handle on the ego self and its control |
| argument erupts between the inner ego’ and | | | | over them. It starts to operate in the form it was |
| higher thinking’. The ego doesn’t like | | | | meant to and begins to work in harmony with, rather |
| change; it is a creature of habit which is there to | | | | than against, the deep, never-ending knowledge of |
| protect the physical existence of the human body. It is | | | | your instinctual intuitive self. |
| the part of you that knows stepping out in front of a | | | | Today the woman and her daughter are talking again. |
| moving bus means you get squashed. That is its | | | | Both are equally respectful of the other. It took less |
| purpose: it is there to remind you to protect the | | | | than a week to fix. She had previously been trying for |
| physical. The all-knowing part of you, however, is | | | | months, even years. She did not have to sit down and |
| aware it is eternal and forgets it must look after the | | | | read her daughter the riot act. She simple followed |
| vehicle it travels in during this lifetime. | | | | something scary and out of her everyday mindset. |