The 5 Biggest Lies Your Ego Tells You

Ego by Zuzana Ridzonova

In the past six months, I’ve spent a lot of time in my head. This was all necessary. I needed to learn about how past trauma was influencing current perceptions. I needed to understand how ADHD (and its related dopamine deficiency) was influencing impulsivity and decision-making. I needed to know how neurology and biology impacted my reality. All of that was helpful and insightful for creating frameworks and skills. However, there was an unexpected side effect to doing all of this headwork: the re-emergence of my old nemesis, the Ego.

I was not aware of the Ego’s return. It recently came to sudden and shocking awareness when I got offended and lost my place on the map of what’s important. Peace and tranquility and flow were all jarringly disrupted. In my version of a post-incident analysis, I quickly saw the influence of Ego and began to immediately re-claim authority over my mind and being.

In this process, I came to the conclusion that there is an ego and there’s an Ego. The first is part of the neocortex and is related to competition, resource allocation, and ambition. In many ways, it keeps us alive. The other Ego is when you over-identify with your mind and are disconnected from your Soul. While the first ego can be rational and fact-based, this Ego is a liar.

In examining my Ego, I have discerned the five biggest lies it tells me. Everyone’s mind works differently, but I thought you might derive some usefulness from my self-analysis.

Lie #1: The Ego has power.

The Ego has no inherent power. Any power that it has was taken from the Soul via coercion, accusation, accusation, and aggression. Because the Ego can’t generate its own power, it is only consumptive. This Ego thinks it is sensitive to injustices and inequities but is actually only concerned about power dynamics. On a mass scale in organizations, cultures, and society, this Ego becomes authoritarianism. Power is held (and acquired) at all costs.