Transcending the Ego by Honoring the Present Moment
Becoming consciously aware of your ego when facing each challenge in life is necessary for ego transcendence. Calmly and patiently being vigilant to each challenge as soon as it arises, will allow the challenge to play itself out, and eventually dissolve. Your only concern should be what is happening now, in the present moment.
Becoming anxious, stressed out, or obsessively worrying about each challenge that develops is the way that the paranoid ego projects the mind into the future, and as a result, completely ignores the present. This is when problems are manifested. The more you become stressed and worried, the worse the problem becomes. This is when you’ll be creating unnecessary suffering for yourself and others.
Don’t put your challenges on the back burner and ignore them, hoping they will just go away on their own, because they won’t. The challenges will dissolve, one by one, but you have to give them the attention they deserve. The key is staying focused in the present moment. If you’re unable to do this right away, that’s understandable. Begin by living in day-tight compartments. In a week or two, strive to live in hour-tight compartments. Then minute-tight. Then second-tight. Eventually you’ll find yourself living in Now-tight compartments. Honoring the present moment is essential for ego transcendence. When you observe the mind projecting itself into the past or into the future, bring your attention back to the present moment. An expert Ego Transcendence Counselor can teach you how to live every moment in the eternal Now.
Tragedy and catastrophe are effects playing themselves out on your life stage, brought on by your higher Self so that you can grow and evolve into a spiritual being. Becoming more and more present to life and giving life the attention it deserves is the only way to prevent problems from occurring. The Self-realized will deal with challenges as soon as they arise, not sweep them under the carpet. After all, the U.S. Treasury didn’t accumulate $15 Trillion worth of debt overnight.
The only way to stop the cycle of “one damn problem after another” from repeating, is for you to stop creating them. Once you begin to become aware that you’ve been the manifester of your own problems all along, you will no longer be asking, “Why are these things happening to me?” You’ll instead be asking, “What have I done to create this reality?” An Ego Transcendence Counselor can help you to initiate this shift in consciousness.
Spiritual Counselor, Jason Lincoln Jeffers is the founder of The Art of Transformation, a company with a mission to teach Spiritual Enlightenment to the masses. His Spiritual Counseling practice uniquely combines spiritual wisdom with ego transcendence, wellness coaching, life path astro-analysis, pain-body counseling, heart-based manifestation, and relationship coaching.