Held In A Great Esteem

It is no coincidence that the Solar Plexus Chakra derives its name from Solar: “relating to or denoting energy derived from the sun’s rays”. The Solar Plexus Chakra is the energy centre for our bodies. It is the ruler of Prana or Ki which is life force energy just like the sun is the source of life for our universe. With out the stream of life force energy originating from the sun we and every other living thing on earth would perish. The universal energy animates us and everything in our lives is directly related to how much or how little Prana or Ki is available to us. Why would some have more and some have less? That would depend on the alignment of the Solar Plexus Chakra as equal universal energy is available to all. Should the Solar Plexus Chakra be blocked in any way it diminishes the energy available and thus diminishes the quality of life.

If the Solar Plexus is running on low it will lead to multiple issues in the physical plane that then further will debilitate the whole mind/ body/ soul system. The Solar Plexus Chakra controls our digestive process and governs over the upper abdomen, liver, gallbladder, spleen, kidney, adrenals, small intestines, and stomach. Problems converting food into energy can be seen in conditions from I.B.S, gallstones, stomach ulcers, intestinal tumors, diabetes, pancreatitis, indigestion, anorexia/bulimia, hepatitis, cirrhosis, adrenal imbalances, arthritis, and colon diseases. All of these conditions will in turn perpetuate further depletion of energy available to the body and further dis*ease or dysfunction which can lead to fatigue, lower back pain, depression, weight gain or loss. It is a terrible cycle to be trapped on.

How do we get off this depressing merry go round? What is at the core of all of this or the initial trigger for blocked or misalignment in the Solar Plexus? SELF ESTEEM or more accurately LOW self esteem. The life lesson or spiritual lesson associated with the Solar Plexus is acceptance of our place in the life stream (self-love) and if this lesson has not been learned we literally can not stomach the circumstances of our lives.

When there is a shift in ourselves allowing for true acceptance and radiant esteem, energy is free to flow downward and upward leading us to be able to both stand up for ourselves without fear and consciously awaken to our higher Self. Our higher self knows we are more than the limitations of our beliefs. Our beliefs are not a mind construct. They are actually rooted in our Solar Plexus. The beliefs surrounding our sense of worth, personal power, personality, sense of belonging, our place in the world, and knowing are programmed into us through out our lifetime and are housed right at the centre of our being. Right at the Solar Plexus. These beliefs influence EVERY contact you have with EVERYTHING outside of you.

If you believe you are small with not much power, then every aspect of your life will reflect that belief. You will see yourself as a victim to the circumstances of your life. Dis-empowered and retaliating to an unfair world. If on the other hand, you hold yourself in high regard, accountability, and esteem than your life will equally reflect that reality. That is not to say that challenges and life lessons stop occurring but how you respond to them will dramatically reflect the Self Esteem you hold your self in. No longer the Victim, you become equal in power to the circumstances of your life and understand you are powerful enough to stand up for what is right, speak your truth, and learn therefore co-creating life in a constant interaction.

A common thread I see amongst most of my clients is a lower than healthy self esteem. On a far larger scale the issues that I see surrounding the world are a lower than healthy global self-esteem. Recent history shows the imbalance of power, retaliatory action of war and colonization, economic bullying and abuse, and inequality. All issues of an imbalance in self esteem. Over compensation for a lack leads to bullying, aggression, manipulation, and over justifying power grabs. The global society clearly represents time and time again the archetypical drama of the victim and the victimizer.

Many write about the massive global awakening as was predicted by the Mayan Calendar and vibrational change as a shift in consciousness. I see not only a conscious awakening but also a massive global Solar Plexus Clearing. Are these solar flares burning through the blocks in our solar Plexus Chakra? What ever the cause, I look at the global movement of peaceful protests as a global Solar Plexus expansion. No longer does the little guy feel powerless. Each individual standing up united promoting not only their individual betterment but for the betterment of all. What a beautiful and courageous expression of self esteem. This is an energy exchange that is no longer based on competition but it allows for Prana or Ki to flow as it is meant to - co-operative and striving for the highest potential of the greater good for all.

The more we awaken and expand ourselves, the more the whole of humanity is improved. True courage is facing not only the outer fear but those fears lodged deep within. When the inner self is clear it can face any outer fear with integrity, honesty, and honourability. We are no longer limited as we hold ourselves equally accountable to the same level of esteem we want seek from the outside world. Self entitlement is replaced with self responsibility. We let the golden ray of confidence inspire change, not through aggression or dominance but through clear assertive expression. Energy flows from the Solar Plexus through the filter of the heart allowing truth to be expressed in love. This is the energetic path towards peaceful change. We don’t need more guns to change the world. We need Self Esteem.

Do you hold yourself in Healthy Esteem?

1. Do you value yourself? Is there someone you think is more valuable than you? What do they do that you aspire to be like?
2. Do you constantly critique yourself and others? Are you judging to see who is better or worse than you or can you accept differences without the use of scale?
3. Is the voice in your head running a negative commentary or do you hear positive reinforcement reminding you you are lovable - flaws and all.
4. What area’s in your life do you feel unworthy, undervalued, or under appreciated? Do you seek regular praise, acknowledgment, and recognition?
5. Do you hold your posture in a collapsed manner or an over inflated stance? Do you routinely cross your arms over your Solar Plexus?
6. Is your Solar Plexus over active? Are you demanding, aggressive, manipulative and like to over power others with your will?
7. Do you suffer from lower back problems, digestive problems, or fatigue?
8. Are you a People Pleasure who secretly hopes your actions will prove your worth or struggle to say “No” then resent having to do something you didn’t want to do?
9. Do you routinely attract the attention of Bullies? Do you feel like the victim of the circumstances of your life?

Are you ready to take responsibility in your life and allow for change? By changing your beliefs about yourself you will in turn change the dynamics of every area in your life which will ripple outward, benefiting everyone. Unity begins with U.

Anger As An Ally – Revisited After The Riots

I recently published an article entitled Anger As An Ally wherein I spoke of anger as a “powerful natural resource that can not only be harnessed but directed to create lasting and powerful change in our own lives as well as the world as a whole”. While I still firmly stand behind that idea, I am compelled to write a follow-up part to this article after the horrific explosions of community anger which morphed into riots witnessed most recently in England.

While the theories behind why such riots occurred vary from economic disparity, political, lost family values through the disintegration of the traditional family structure, dramatic changes in educational responsibilities, moral guidance by churches disappearing, and self entitlement rife due to social mores minimizing accountability and responsibility norms of the past; the one thing that can’t be denied is that these people were ANGRY! I am not here to argue whether their anger is justified or what really is the cause. I am here to point out that it is simply human nature to respond with anger to circumstances that are perceived to be an infringement upon their rights.

Over thousands of years we can see countless examples of people revolting and rioting against a real or perceived threats against personal or communal rights. Is this a predisposition of humans? If so, we have a certain responsibility as individuals and communities to utilize the power of the emotions and harness them in positive and productive means. Whether this is seen through peaceful protests, writing the powers that be, using social media to promote change, or individually altering your behaviours through consumer spending – You do have the power to make change without burning your neighbours’ houses down.

For the angry rioters, it is sad that one loses what might have been an empathy towards their cause because of how grossly they misdirect the energy of anger. I have often said one loses the argument regardless of how right they are as soon as they lose their temper or swear. I am not saying it is an easy undertaking to remain calm when faced with injustice, inequality, or even horrific cruelty but this must be the goal of all people if they want change to work in their favour. Without public support of your cause, change will happen – only it will happen against you.

Instead of laws to bring about more social equality, the peoples in these communities will now be faced with an even greater infringement of their rights through a police state. One does oneself a disservice when over taken by the animalistic aspects of self driven by an uncontrolled anger. So, as we move forward into tumultuous times of economic uncertainly, fear mongering, political maneuvering, environmental and climatic devastation, social disparity, and absolute uncertainty, I ask you all to step into the driver’s seat of your self. There it is YOU that controls and directs your emotions towards positive and profound change.

Each of us is responsible and accountable for staying grounded, being guided by wisdom, and controlling our emotional impulses so that they may be directed outward in a beneficial way. No matter where you are in the world or what it is you face, move forward with grace and courage.

Namaste.

Anger As An Ally

It is strange to me how bad a rap certain emotions get. It’s as though they are the distant awkward cousins that nobody likes that occasionally come for a visit. You can’t just kick them out, but you are happy to see them go. As a woman who is very tapped into her emotions, I can tell you there have been some visitors that have been far less pleasant than others. Anger isn’t particularly nice, nor is frustration or sadness. But this is the human condition. We were not meant to be happy ALL of the time in spite of our yearning for a perpetual state of bliss.

Emotions are eMOTIONS. They are there to create motion. Like bumpers in a pinball machine, they bump you back into the game, redirecting you to change the course of your life. Without them, we would stay fixed in a direction that is not meant for us or not for our higher good.

Let’s say for example we have a hidden talent as a singer that has laid dormant for most of our lives. Maybe it was lack of encouragement or low self esteem that kept that talent from coming to life. Who knows? The why is not relevant. We spend our life working away at some dreary job and carry on this course. Over time, we become more down, depressed, and bored. These emotions begin to stir a longing inside of us for change until one day BOOM you are motivated to audition for America’s Got Talent and your life is irrevocably altered. Back on course to destiny! Would we have gotten there without the emotions leading up to action being taken?

My favourite motivator is actually the dreaded ANGER. Poor Anger gets a really bad rap. It shouldn’t. Yes, it is powerful and for that reason it scares people. Anger uncontrolled is like a volcano. Yet, anger itself is not to be feared. If directed and harnessed responsibly it can create momentous change. Did peace protestors protest peace because they felt peace? No! They protested because they were angry with the war. The same can be said for any major movement. The Black Movement came from an anger at inequality, just as the feminist movement did. Protests across the globe can come from an anger against lack of liberties and freedoms or from repression. Even Ghandi himself, motivated by anger, harnessed that energy to change the world and he left an indelible mark on human history in doing so.

“I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can move the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

In our personal lives, we may not be called to change the world or maybe we are. Maybe the injustices we live will call us to fight for Father’s Rights. Or maybe you are called to Save the Whales. Or maybe your anger is not meant to be manifested in such a dramatic way. Maybe you are simply being bumped to step into your own power and learn to be the master of your own ship. Maybe your anger is directed inwards and you are being called to learn to let go of something you desperately want to stay stuck on because familiar is easier. Whatever the resolution, the initial motivation that brought forth a desire for change was anger or some equally unpleasant emotion.

Once we accept that anger is actually a powerful natural resource that can not only be harnessed but directed to create lasting and powerful change in our own lives as well as the world as a whole, we can welcome its energy as something we no longer need to fear. With fear out of the equation, the question becomes how? How do we harness that which feels so out of control? How do we contain and direct it to create positive change and result?

How?

1. Allow. Rarely do we even allow ourselves to feel unwanted emotions. “How are you today?” Answer “Fine.” We are not fine. Unless, you are using the Acronym (F.I.N.E. = Frustrated. Irrational. Neurotic. Emotional.) We often don’t want to admit to ourselves how we are truly feeling and distract ourselves with computers, T.V., and endless activity to prevent us actually letting the emotion be. Deny, distract, and repress. That is a sure fire way to land yourself in sickness and then you’ll really have something to be angry about.
2. Meditate. Take the time to sit with the emotion and ask “What are you trying to tell me? What needs to change? What action can I do?” The answers may come quickly or they may not. You can’t rush change no matter how much you want to. If the questions are too big, make them smaller. “What is one thing can I do today to make my life better for tomorrow?”
3. Just DO it. One of the best Ad campaigns of our time says it all. Don’t get caught up in fear, procrastination, and doubt. Kick your “Yeah but’s” out and JUST DO IT. That can range from doing a simple chore in the home to taking the time to write a letter to your Prime Minister/ President. If something isn’t right, you absolutely have the power to create profound change.

Life isn’t a walk in the park. Life is a intricate landscape of hills & valleys, light & dark, justice & injustice, good & evil, right & wrong. It is complicated and tricky at times to navigate. Thankfully, we have the gift of emotion to help guide us and alter the path.

May you have a productive day!

Namaste.

Everybody Needs A Break Sometime

Lately, life has been an unyielding struggle for my partner and I who are facing the beast that is family law in Ontario. As we try to navigate through a seemingly nonsensical and very stressful world, I am most amazed at the transformations it is having on each of us, as individual souls set on a predestined path. As I distance my mind and alter my perceptions I see the workings of much larger meanings at play. I watch as previous limitation of beliefs about each of our personal power and abilities are met and broken through. Even in destruction there is the beauty of a hint of something new and wonderful awaiting. I was reminded of an old piece of writing I did and pulled it up from the archives:

I can imagine the last couple of days leading up to a chick breaking through the egg, is rather cramped, uncomfortable, and even in somewhat of a cranky mood. Here the safe and protective comfort of the egg has shifted into a restrictive prison. Yet, the egg itself didn’t change. The environment itself remained the same. What changed or shifted was the chick. The chick grew. The chick developed and with it the perspective and sense of the enclosing environment went from comforting and safe to restrictive and debilitating. Just when the chick can’t take the pressure of the walls closing in anymore, the chick breaks free. The chick is born to its new life, in a bigger environment, to experience a vast amount of challenges its developing form.

The chick didn’t analyse leaving the comfort of what is known for the discomfort of the unknown. The chick intuitively knew it was time to break through the barrier because to remain would be certain death. The simplicity of this example of rebirth is a great lesson to me right now. I can see in my own life, the walls were closing in on me. At least, that is the perspective when it feels like the stresses of life are overwhelming the joy that once existed there. But perhaps, like the egg and chick, it wasn’t what was going on around me that was shrinking, it was me that was growing. Perhaps, as we grow on a spiritual level we come to the point of break through only when our spirits out grow the circumstances of our lives. Then, just like the chick we experience irritation at the cramped, unmoving prison walls of circumstance until that moment comes when we just can’t take it anymore, and CRACK, we break through the barriers of limitation to a vast new world.

This is certainly true for me in the last couple of months, as more and more previously limiting beliefs came up and each one calcifying the egg that held me encased. It is easy to get angry with the barriers, irritated and even blame them for being there but, I also remember it is those walls that kept me safe, until the time that I was big enough and strong enough to break through to something new. So, while I believe that understanding why or where our limiting beliefs come from is useful, I also think that we need to love them for the function they served at the time. Forgiving the past and forgiving ourselves is part of it. Accepting that things happen all in the perfect timing is part of it. Surrendering to the process is part of it. Everything has purpose. Everything is a natural evolution. Everything has the power of grace locked within it.

Once there is conscious awareness of where or what you are. There is always the ability to grow, gain strength, breakthrough, be reborn often, in an endless cycle of new beginnings. Even if there isn’t conscious awareness, eventually the cramped existence we create for ourselves will intuitively push for you to break free.

Play with words:

Breakthrough
Break free
Breakdown
Break point
Breakout
Any way you break it apart being in a state of break isn’t such a bad thing in a world of cycles, sometimes it needs to break to rebuild it better.

Living Through The Wisdom Of Others - Part 3

This is the final installment of my three part article and it is the most special to me because the speaker was none other than Caroline Myss. This woman has changed my life in more ways than one. Over ten years ago, I came across her book “Anatomy of the Spirit” and finally a light was turned on so brightly inside me that I had the means to start walking myself out of a dark grey cloud of depression. If you haven’t read this book, DO! It might just change your life! I have continued following Caroline Myss’s writings through the years and her most recent book “Defy Gravity” is equally transformational and inspirational.

I love Caroline Myss’s no nonsense approach to healing and teaching. Her ‘tell it like it is’ charisma dispels the lovey-dovey or airy-fairy view of the stereotypical New Age Teacher. She can be abrupt and sharp in the delivery of a truth so deep that it cuts through the ego’s illusion of nicety. Her message isn’t a sugar coated “it will all just be better with positive thoughts.” Hers is a message of responsibility, accountability, and WORK. If you want out of the dis-ease (emotional, mental, or spiritual), you are going to have to be truly under your own power and do the work yourself to get to a place of genuine authentic living. If you happen to be stuck in a place of victimization, she will call you out on it. If that is you, maybe you should read, “Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can.’ She will also put into perspective your place in this vast universe.

This is why it came as no surprise to me when she stated, “You are entitled to NOTHING.”

This quote may seem harsh to some in the healing community where we try to immerse ourselves in positive thinking, self-esteem building, inner child work, and love & gratitude. We teach ourselves how important self care is and it is! Her quote doesn’t actually disagree with any of those philosophies. It simply cuts through the illusions or stories we tell ourselves to prop up the grasping ego self and strips us bare to our core truth. On a surface level, we may say we are entitled to this day off, or this spa treatment, or we have earned the family holiday. And on a surface level or egoic level you would be correct. You do deserve as a person to treat yourself well and indulge in moments of pampering. But, are you entitled to it?

In more ways than one, society behaves like we have entered the entitlement era. We think we are entitled to health, wealth, happiness, bliss, material things, careers, status, security, success, relationships, etc… Society with its television and celebrity focus in our First World nations prop up this delusion that somehow just being born entitles us to education, freedom, liberty, food and shelter. But what happens if you are born in Africa where poverty is predominant? Where is the entitlement to food? Or what happens if your town is swept away by a devastating natural disaster? Where is the entitlement to security and shelter? What happens if you, yes you, gets Cancer? Where is your entitlement to health and even life?

When you rip the layers of real entitlement away, what is left? Nothing! What does these mean? Is this a nihilist attitude? No. Actually this is an argument for the fundamental truth of absolute GRATITUDE. When entitlement is no longer the driving force, the truth that EVERYTHING is a blessing comes into our awareness – from every breath we breathe to every single thing we get or experience we have. It is for this reason we should be grateful and thankful for all that we do have. This is living not only from an authentic place but a place filled with true grace.

So here is a deep truth I gratefully learned from another - I am entitled to nothing and very blessed by everything.

Learning Through The Wisdom of Others - Part 2

“Embrace your inner Stupid” - The second of the many remarkable quotes I heard at this year’s I CAN DO IT Conference in Toronto was spoken by Debbie Ford, Author and co-creator of “The Shadow Effect”. In her speech, Debbie proceeded to tell the audience an amazing story that must have absolutely shocked many mothers. It certainly was a very new perspective for me. The story was about how her son came home from school very upset because another one of the kids had called him “stupid”. We all know how cruel kids can be. Our knee jerk reaction would be to deny that there is any validity to the comment and stroke our child’s wounded spirit. Stupid is also a word that I have seen many a parent react to like it should be stricken from vocabulary all together. “Don’t use that word! That is a BAD word”. Reject. Deny. Forbid.

I have never felt that strong an aversion to the word Stupid or any other word for that matter. Words are just words. It is the energy or the intent behind the usage of the words that has made me react or, as a mother, monitor how or in what usage words are delivered. I have heard myself say “It is not nice to call someone stupid” because I saw that the intention was to hurt someone’s feelings. But when describing a thing or an activity, I saw no harm in the word. So my guidepost became – Reject the usage when dealing with people, accept the usage when dealing with things – thus attempting to minimize the “taboo” of negative word usage and dis-empower the word Stupid.

What was amazing to me was that Debbie Ford did not try dis-empower negative words -she EMBRACED them. Wow! This was pushing the concept of acceptance well past comfort levels and into the place we fear to go. When her son proceeded to tell her how he had been called “stupid”, she didn’t jump to the place of refusal. Instead she completely accepted the comment without restraint. When her confused son asked her if she thought he was stupid also, she responded by listing off all the stupid things she had done that week and lightened the situation from a place of darkness and negativity to make it light and even jovial. She explained to her son and to all of us in the audience that we all have the capacity to be stupid – just as equally we have the capacity to be brilliant. One cannot exist without the other. Further, it is necessary to embrace that shadow side of ourselves we energetically work at repressing. The very thing we repress, mask, or deny is the quality that will become greater in power and influence in our lives.

“That which we resist – persists!” ~ Carl Jung

“The lady doth protest too much” Shakespeare.

Not only accepting but actually embracing our shadow qualities means we no longer live in a reactionary state. We live in a greater state of flow as we are truly balanced between negative & positive, shadow & light, and greatness & humility. I love this idea. It is so freeing. If we are in a state of embracing all aspects of the self, we no longer need to prove ‘what I am’ or ‘what I am not’. You no longer buy into the worry that you are limited or defined by one person’s opinion – negative or positive. Therefore, the opinions of others become something you no longer fear, reject, or even need to respond to. The next time someone calls you “stupid” or “selfish” or any of those choice 4 letter words, let it wash over you with the acceptance that ‘I am that and I am also the opposite of that’.

I am.

Once we bring stupidity out of the shadows and into the light, we can begin to laugh at our folly and our oxymoronic nature. I am brilliantly stupid and stupidly brilliant. Loving our sillier and darker aspects allows us to remain unfazed by the opinions of others. Maybe from their vantage point, they can only recognize that shadow quality in you. That shadow is, in fact, serving you in some capacity. My inner ‘b*tch get’s things done. My inner lazy demands I take time to relax. My inner critic pushes me to improve the circumstances of my life. My inner judge navigates choices with greater discernment. My inner fool flies by the seat of my pants and has filled my life with great adventures. And my inner stupid reminds me not to take life too seriously.

Living Trough The Wisdom of Others – Part 1

Learning Through The Wisdom of Others

This past weekend I attended the Hay House I CAN DO IT conference again. Just like last, year it was an inspirational and uplifting weekend. I could go through each speaker and rave about how enlightening they were but instead I think I am going to write about the most profound quotes I heard that have stuck with me and altered something in my consciousness. I will write a 3 part article.

The first quote that struck a cord with me was “I wrote this book to heal myself” spoken by Joan Borysenko, PhD, when talking about her most recent book “Fried! Why You Burn Out And How To Revive”. This particular quote leaped out at me because it so clearly outlined the path of the Wounded Healer Archetype and disposed of the myth that healers, now transcended, live in some permanent state of bliss. No, as long as we are alive, we are challenged and put under stresses. Each time we experience that pressure, we are pushed further along the path.

It has been my experience and the experience of many others I have observed that those that suffer in their suffering are given the greatest gift or opportunity to become great healers. In helping others through the same condition, not only do they give healing but so too do they receive it.

All of us struggle at some stage, whether it be health, relationships or work. The lesson is not in the what but in the how – the how we get out of the darkness.. Sometimes we may feel so lost and confused that, in trying hard to get out, we only lose ourselves even more. However, should we be called to the service of others, in helping them become found we too become found. The healer is healed through the process of healing others.

This relationship between people redefines the idea of hierarchy of healing as understood in the western mind (such as one would see in a doctor/ patient relationship) and opens the world of healing to everyone regardless of educational limitations. If you have experienced something, you therefore have obtained a glimmer of wisdom to pass on to others. I am in no way discounting the essential usefulness of medical professionals, Eastern or Western. I am simply suggesting perhaps we all can be empowered to heal not only ourselves but others. Or more specifically heal ourselves BY healing others.

Maybe you can look within and see that thing that holds you in its grip; that disease in your body, that emotion in your heart, that career that just seems stuck. Instead of trudging through, you might stop in your tracks and look outwards. Find someone else you can help, Maybe they have a similar problem and they just need someone like you who understands and validates them. Maybe you can advance their career somehow by a connection you’ve made. Maybe, you can show them compassion and love. There are hundreds of volunteer opportunities or simple acts of kindness that can elevate and empower people.

We learn that through giving – we receive.

Embrace the Wounded Healer in you and reach out and touch somebody.

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All Paths Lead to ONE

Where language may differ and cultural practice may differ, the united thread holding the patchwork quilt together is the lesson of love and compassion. Whether you practice meditation in the lineage of great Buddhist Masters or practice Prayer according to the lessons of Biblical Saints and Prophets, or even if you practice Sacred Ceremonies passed down through millennium by tribal vocal heritage… All is indeed ONE.


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Outsmarting Ego

There is that moment in life when something triggers an awakening in us that brings about a change in movement from walking blindly in darkness to venturing forth into light. This isn’t something that happens over night or finalizes a bliss that for ever after we are happy and without trials. This is only one moment of a long string of moments that are strung together like pearls on a necklace spaced with knots. It is an unrealistic goal for most of us, that from the moment awakening begins we are in one split second enlightened and continuously tapped in to a higher conscious state of being. For most of us, it is intermittent moments of awe and awareness that come after hurdles that we overcome.

Our Ego wants to get involved at the moment of awakening and point out how you should be further down the path. Or, your Ego may want you to become complacent by taking on the thought, “Well, look how enlightened we are now. No need to keep working at it”. It is almost humorous the lengths the Ego will go to distract you from the the process. Why? Because the Ego ran the show when we lived in the dark. Continued...

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