What is Ego?

Hello, I’m Meguru.

Since I’ve started using the voice streaming platform Voicy,
I received a lot of feedback about the blog “What is Ego?”

It’s a very basic topic, but I realized it would be great to turn this into a blog post too!

Going back to basics is always important, you know.

So here we go!

Ego Blocks Your True Thoughts

Manifesting through the subconscious works on one simple principle: “What you believe becomes your reality.”

When it comes to love, this means:
When you truly believe you’re in a loving relationship with him, that becomes your reality.” Isn’t that incredibly simple?

All you need to do is decide that you’re a happy couple and hold that thought.

It all comes down to your thoughts.
When you believe you’re together, you really are together.
You just have to think it.
Start by choosing your thoughts.
What you think becomes your truth—your own personal truth.
It’s a truth that doesn’t need to wait for the outside world to catch up.

But you still get caught up in “reality,” don’t you?
More precisely, it’s your ego reacting to “reality” that creates all the drama.

Ego is just automatic reactive thoughts when something happens.
In the outside world, all kinds of situations occur:

Your ego responds like this:

We react in all these ways—”This is awful!” “He doesn’t care!” “I can’t handle this!” That’s exactly what ego is.

Ego Never Stops Reacting

While ego starts as an automatic reaction to events, it has this nasty habit of reacting to its own reactions.

For example, when your ego first reacts with “How dare he ignore me!” after he doesn’t respond to your text,
does it stop there? Usually not, right?

“How could he be so cruel?”
“Does he really not care about me at all?”
“How can someone change so suddenly?”

And on and on it goes.

Like I keep saying, ego is just an automatic reaction to events.
It’s just noise.
Because it’s so loud, you think it’s actually you—but it’s just reactive noise.

It’s not who you are.

When you listen to your ego’s voice, you get trapped in endless thinking and worrying.

Right now, is there anyone reading this who’s been obsessively thinking about him?
Well, that’s definitely ego taking over.

I think one reason people keep thinking and worrying (even when they say they don’t want to) is that all that mental activity makes them feel like they’re actually doing something productive.

You know, when you get caught up in overthinking and merge with your ego, everything seems more and more complicated, and you feel more desperate in your thinking.
There’s this strong feeling of “I’m working so hard on this problem.”

I get it because I used to love getting lost in my thoughts too, but in the end, you’re not actually accomplishing anything. You’re just thinking in circles.

You’re just worrying. You’ve just become one with your ego.

When Ego Takes Over, You Can’t See Your True Thoughts

Does this mean you can’t manifest when ego shows up?
Absolutely not.

The key to manifesting love through your subconscious is simply to decide.

You just need to choose your thought.

However, as long as you keep listening to your ego’s loud voice, all you’ll hear is “This is terrible,” “I can’t stand this anymore,” “It’s hopeless.”

This makes it really hard to connect with the important thought that
“We’re a happy couple.”
Because you’re giving all your attention and belief to your ego’s voice saying “This is terrible,” “I can’t take it,” “There’s no hope.”

The Only Thing You Need to Do Is Ignore It

You get distracted by your ego’s loud voice.
Ego gets so close that you can’t help but merge with it.

I totally understand this.

Because you’ve always thought that ego voice was actually you, and

you’ve lived your whole life this way— constantly worrying about this and that. So when someone suddenly tells you, “That’s not you,” you might think, “Huh?” and feel surprised, right?

But honestly, it’s just a habit.
Up until now, when something happened and your thoughts got noisy and reactive,
you got stuck in endless worry spirals because that was your usual pattern. From now on, you can simply break the habit of responding to every thought and just ignore it.

On this blog, when we use words like “ignore” or “discard,” what we really mean is “Don’t worry about it.”

Don’t say “I can’t do it” just because you haven’t broken decades-old habits in a day or two.

You can do this. Just keep practicing.

We all find ourselves in the swamp of worry and sadness sometimes.

But whether you recognize it’s just ego or stay tangled up in it makes all the difference in the long run.

Don’t keep listening to your ego’s nonsense and throw away the most important thought—that you’re deeply in love with your special person!