Healer's Note

* Decided to include two links to 'sister' posts titled: Food for the Soul & Sky Dancing
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2013/10/food-for-soul.html

www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2013/10/sky-dancing.html

Some  folks  who are aspiring to be spiritual have the wrong idea of 'ego's' role in their development.  It is vital to properly  understand what 'transcending and including the ego means'. I like how  Ken Wilber described it:

The ego is the executive function of the mental levels. Egolessness does not mean absence of a functional self (that is a psychotic, not a sage). Transcending ego doesn't mean destroying ego, it means plugging it into something bigger. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind, they do not erase them.
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Vanity and jealousy must die,  unresolved psychological wounds and developmental needs, must be faced and healed.  Everyone has ego but it has to be purified and transformed before one can successfully progress along the spiritual path.
Over the years I wrote several posts which focused on psycho-emotional healing.  Today, I want to more or less repeat what I wrote already with the intention of injecting a shot of inspiration.
May you find inspiration within the word's meaning.

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Guided by our unshakable commitment to the highest goal is a Gift you can give yourself. Your peace of mind depends on this since it is easier to endure life's strife and struggle when we know that the pursuit of the highest Will, will lead to positive outcome and directly reveal your spiritual depth.  Often times in sleep state, the darker niches of your psyche releases scary images and our instinct is to run away from it in the same manner we turn away in waking   life from our insecurities. Who wants to admit there is selfishness, that we harbor within our mind-heart resentments, that we thirst for power and desire to dominate another.
Still we are unflinching because our Heroic self compassionately looks at those uncouth traits, and admits "this is my karmic lot" -  and decides to give itself permission to not blame others for those not (yet) exactly white as freshly fallen snow personality traits.
Don't wait for others to change first. They maybe pushing your sensitive buttons, but this is your life, your Soul's journey, so wait not for others to do the heavy-lifting for you. It is up to you to take responsibility for your psycho-emotional healing.  If you can afford it, seek out a good therapist who can help you sort things out.
The Master in you--your highest representation of the Ineffable Value / Goddess / God--waits for your co-operation. . .When you recognize the significance of this message, you will move forward with a Song of Gratitude in your heart.
Be aware,  that our egoic 'contraction' feels threatened by the ever-increasing role the (infinite) Soul plays in our life. The  'surface' ego is a very cunning creature and will do everything in its power to persuade you that you need to protect yourself when someone  presents a different/more evolved picture/mode of being.  It will give you many reasons why you and others shouldn't pay any attention to the "nonsense".

Sri Aurobindo's words on same (nonsense) theme:
"The vital ego hates being opposed in its desires, resents dissapointment, is furious against the wound to its pride and vanity: it does not like the process of purification and it may very well declare satyagraha againt it, refuses to co-operate, justify its demands and inclinations, after passive resistance of many kinds, withdraw the being from the path of spiritual endeavor. All this has to be faced and overcome for the temple of the of being has to be swept clean if the Lord of our being is to take his place and receaive our worship there." intyoga.online.fr/diffpath.htm

Releasing old patterns feels scary. Releasing rage (once owned not projected elsewhere) seems uncouth to one who thinks 'I'm too evolved for such barbaric emotions'. . .
But when we know that psycho-emotional growth is the greatest gift you can give yourself , that this is the greatest Treasure you deserve to have, you will keep going no matter what!
Don't blame others for the way you feel, but instead look within and ask what harmful patterns and beliefs must be examined and released. Be grateful for this opportunity. Grateful, you can, without self-judgment  and tons of compassion allow feelings of sadness, rage, or fear flow out of your nervous system.
Old fears will surface when higher (Soul) frequencies take up residence in you. Be nice to your 'wounded'  self and observe  your thoughts and feelings from a newer, more detached perspective when stagnant energy flows out of you.  Acknowledge these moments with gratitude.
 Accelerated growth happens more easily when we accept and love ourselves as we are right now.
Never assume that those of us who are at higher levels of consciousness,  to one degree or another, didn't have to deal with same issues.  This is why we can't help being compassionate. We identify with pain/suffering and have no desire to shame or judge another.

Last, but not least. . .remember that within our soul's 'virtual memory bank'  are encoded  past life traumas.  Their energy/causes set in motion in one incarnation are driving the  present-day incarnation. This is why the healing process can't be breezed through in a weekend.