How to Free Yourself From Your Ego and Live From Your True Self - Your Spirit

Q. What do you mean by the phrase "True Self?"

A. Your true self is your Spirit. The part of you that has no boundaries - no limitations. To understand this is to live your life with no fear. Only your ego fears anything. Your True self - your Spirit - knows that in order to truly free yourself from your ego and its ceaseless mind games, you must face your fears.

A quote from Guy Finley's insightful book "The Secret of Letting Go" reads:

"Just dare to proceed even while being afraid. But remember, your new aim isn't to be courageous or to try to act strong in the face of fear. No. We've seen that this won't work. You simply want to be more curious about your frightened thoughts and feelings than you want to believe in them. If you follow this simple but Higher Instruction, not only will you start to see these habitual reactions that have been keeping you scared and running, you'll actually start seeing through them."

Try practicing this wisdom in your life. Try to step back from your thoughts and sense that you are the thinker of your thoughts, not the thoughts themselves.

Q. "How do I know the difference between my true self and my false self (ego)?" A. Ask yourself, "Which provides me more peace?" And sit back and watch and see how you react to your own routine thoughts and feelings. As you can do this, the light of your True self that once seemed dim will continue to brighten.

Q. "Isn't it better to just move on and not acknowledge the past or the pain?"

A. Trying to move beyond a problem without first understanding it is like asking for directions from someone who has never traveled the land you seek - and with no map. They have been using a map based upon ego - What I call the "map of the ego."