Consciousness

Please Live From a Soul Level Instead of the Ego

You’ll be happier and we will all be happier

Your problems will fade if you allow yourself to connect beyond your worries, beyond your fears, and beyond your mind. Your soul gives you wisdom about every situation. Your struggles and doubts come from your ego-mind. Stresses can be transcended through the constant connection with the soul.

When you remember that you’re a soul that is here to learn, then you accept hardship as a great learning experience. It even becomes entertaining to see how life unfolds in its great comedies and tragedies.

Your relationships get better, too. As you begin to see people as souls simply struggling to shed the karmic cycles they’ve picked up instead of individuals who are out to get you, you can navigate difficult situations better.

Living from the ego level is exhausting. You’re constantly in a battle to protect yourself against pain. But pain can happen any time in life and beyond our control, so it’s a neverending battle you’re fighting. It will be draining for you.

So, how do you live from the soul? I’ll explain.

Identify truth from within.

You have so much wisdom within you and all you really have to do is feel from the heart. In any situation, shift your awareness to your heart and let it do the thinking for you. Your anxieties will melt away when you get really good at this — you’ll be able to cut through them to the truth.

The truth is never truly scary. Because truth is love. The truth is that you are fully supported by the universe and everything is exactly as it should be.

The truth you’ll find in your heart is that any interaction or situation that seems undesirable is really because there’s some fear underlying it. For instance, the person you are speaking to has fear so they may lie to you. Your own fear is creating a barrier between you and dealing with reality, so you may feel unable to move forward. You may be afraid of getting hurt, so you close your heart to people and struggle with trust.

But in your heart, you can hear what’s true and what’s not. The things you fear aren’t real. They’re what your ego is holding onto in order to protect you from harm.

But you can’t really be harmed because you’re a soul.

Understand what you truly are: a soul.

Your ego-mind has made you believe in yourself as a human with status in life, relationships, a past, possessions, achievements, and failures. It gives you an ability to be attached to trauma. It makes you believe that your identity depends on these things instead of the fact that you’re an expression of divine love.

Your ego gets in the way of your connection with pure, divine love. It makes you forget that you’re a soul.

I like to think about myself as an eternal being experiencing a human life that is a single point among infinite points in my existence.

Once you remember that you’re a soul in most parts of your day, you will find that things get easier. Your existence starts to make sense. Things that feel difficult will become lessons for your soul development. Blessings and joy become great achievements of human experience that you shine out into the rest of the universe. Everything you do becomes a lesson.

See the big picture.

As a soul, you are part of the oneness of existence. Understand that life is an orchestration of beauty that interprets the great love of the universe into a physical manifestation. We are all learning and growing together.

We’re individual souls moving through a great sea of oneness in a symphony of evolution.

When you take in every moment of life as a manifestation of this great love and great consciousness of the cosmos, things start to make more sense. Things get easier because you see where you fit in among all the “other” souls. We all have a purpose and we all experience life so we can teach each other.

You can save yourself great hardship by staying aware of the greater purpose of all life and its expression of great love.

Learn to live from the wisdom of the soul.

It’s not an easy feat, but it’s one of the only things you should really try to do. Stay in awareness of the spiritual existence you live. Your existence, your mind, and even your ego are divine expressions of love. As a soul, you have come into creation in order to discover, express, and be love.

Forgive others for their mistakes because they, too, are souls on this journey. They are also trying to figure out how to express and embody love.

“Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.”

— Ram Dass

Hi, I’m Emily. I write about consciousness, philosophy, and deep considerations of existence. For more about me, have a look at my website.

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