The Difference between Ego and Soul
1. The Ego voice is always the loudest
When your ego (fears, guilt, illusions) speaks to you, it’s always the first and loudest voice.
When we’re in ego, we’re ruled by our fears, which always leads us to limit ourselves and become less of who we are.
The ego’s voice is full of anger, resentment, withdrawal, fears, guilt, and insecurities. On the other hand, to hear our soul, we have to become silent and turn our awareness inside.
We don’t hear the soul’s guidance on the surface; it takes a lot of practice to become still at will. If you practice any form of meditation, then it becomes easier for you to tune inside and develop this skill of true listening.
2. Habitual response
When ego leads us, we tend to repeat the same response as if we were on autopilot.
Let’s say that someone gets angry at you in the office, and you immediately respond in an irritated, angry way too. This is a habitual response. If you’d allow your soul to guide you, then you’d know that someone else is mad at you, is nothing personal. Other people are driven by ego, too, and it simply loves to attack anyone for no apparent reason.
When we take things personally, then we’re surely in our ego part of the mind.
3. Staying in a comfort zone
The ego is part of your routine way of living; it loves staying in the comfort zone and playing small. On the other hand, your soul wants you to expand and grow. Always.
It means that your soul guides you to face your fears (ego) and grow beyond them. There are no comfort zones and limitations in the soul’s perspective.
4. Observe what makes you feel lighter
There is a straightforward way of how always to know which one of them is talking to you. When ego talks to you, you feel heavy.
It can be a physical sensation located anywhere in your body. I feel heaviness in my chest.
While the soul makes you feel light. When your soul speaks to you, you feel light as if some heavy burden (ego) dropped off you.
5. Aha moments
When your soul guides you, you feel as if your perspective is broadened. And it does.
Each time when you have aha moments, glimpses of inspiration, or merely any thought that breaks the old paradigm, it’s your soul breaking the heavy chains of illusions around you build by ego. As I said earlier, ego makes you think in the same old way. It’s not creative.
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