Conviction ...

The ego is poorly valued, in fact when they talk about a person "with ego" they do it to criticize him. It has even gone to the extreme of making a whole mythology as to how bad it is.

I don't agree with that. Why? Because the ego is the "me".

The inner self has to do with self-awareness. It is related to self-esteem.

How is that? I have an ego, I have a self. That self has an ability, it's called meta cognition no, and what is that? The ability to think about one's own thoughts. I'm thinking that right now I'm thinking. See? That is the ability to think.

Now, I think about myself, and when I think about myself, I qualify myself (self-esteem) and that whole process is EGO, which in other words is the SELF.

Complicated, right? Let's make it easy: We all have ego fights every day.

When?

When we criticize someone. To criticize is always from the ego, from the (self). Even when you criticize the ego, you are having ego. Also when you praise yourself or praise someone, it is Ego.

Is it bad? No, not at all, it's just the exercise of a capacity that we have, the self.

For example, when you look in the mirror and judge yourself, remember: the opinion that matters most is yours, and you can change it.

It is not so difficult to ask for help, when I have a mini-ego struggle, I grab a mini-phone, call a mini-therapist, make an appointment and wait for my turn, and I just do it this way, because I understand that many times I can't do it alone, what's more, the one that makes me believe that I can, is the ego and the EGO is the only one responsible for the suffering.

So if I want to improve, I have to overcome the EGO, be humble and ask for help. For me, the therapy I've had for the last 30 years has really helped me transform my life.

The change is made from the inside out, I've done it with intelligence and feeling, discovering myself. This is the only way to achieve peace, through the journey of self-knowledge.

Life is a mystery in itself, we live it and it lives us and the mystery multiplies with death, which is the one that ends up giving a meaning to life.

I still do not get out of the amazement of this certain fact, between the pain of loss and the consolation of an eternity to share. Death, end and beginning according to faith.

It's hard to understand, but when we finally do it, it's liberating. And existentially there remains the conviction...

Janitze 🌹