Moving Beyond The Ego Barrier.

it! I finally had the courage and saw it through. I neverHow do you tell the difference between ego and
thought I could. It worked! I can’t believe itintuition?
worked!”Your intuition is relentless and cannot be budged from
These are the words of a woman I had been talkingits position whereas the ego can be talked into and out
to about the behaviour of her teenage daughter. Herof anything. An example would be if your intuition told
child had become so difficult that the mother wasyou to pursue a particular career. No human on earth
desperate. I saw the solution quite clearly. It came tocould truly talk you out of that feeling. They may be
me so strongly and firmly, controversially but I knewable to talk you out of following that feeling but never
from the deepest part of me it would work and theout of recognising that feeling.
two of them could resolve and have a brilliantIt 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 egoactions. Many of our fears operate without us fully
works in harmony with you it is easy for you to linkparticipating 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 itsdifficult for the ego to take control. This is why many
boots, it hinders the natural path of intuition, intuitivepeople on the psychic path find it increasingly difficult to
instinct and psychic ability. The ego self will deny thedeny their truth. They find it challenging to: stay in
presence of intuition and rely heavily on logic, reasonsituations or places that no longer suit; tell someone
and emotional fears rather than embrace higherthey 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 orfor the past five years. These are all signs that they
another, people go through a period of time when anare getting a handle on the ego self and its control
argument erupts between the inner ‘ego’ andover them. It starts to operate in the form it was
‘higher thinking’. The ego doesn’t likemeant to and begins to work in harmony with, rather
change; it is a creature of habit which is there tothan against, the deep, never-ending knowledge of
protect the physical existence of the human body. It isyour instinctual intuitive self.
the part of you that knows stepping out in front of aToday the woman and her daughter are talking again.
moving bus means you get squashed. That is itsBoth are equally respectful of the other. It took less
purpose: it is there to remind you to protect thethan a week to fix. She had previously been trying for
physical. The all-knowing part of you, however, ismonths, even years. She did not have to sit down and
aware it is eternal and forgets it must look after theread her daughter the riot act. She simple followed
vehicle it travels in during this lifetime.something scary and out of her everyday mindset.