If thinking about Reason and Ego are new to you, it can be helpful to think of ReasonReason is a mythological character and symbolic guide who shows you how to think and behave in a Right-Minded way. As your Right-Minded teacher, Reason helps you differentiate and choose between Right-Minded and wrong-minded attitudes and behaviors. More as your positive intuition and EgoEgo is the negative, wrong-minded teacher who continually tells you how difficult the world is and how you must constantly fight to survive. More as your negative, arrogant, and sometimes vindictive intuition.
At different times throughout our lives, we all have listened to and followed each of these teachers.
Stop and remember when you had a hunch or a feeling as to what you should do or say in a particular situation. Did you ignore your intuition? Let’s say you did not follow your instinct, and it turned out to be a mistake. What did you say to yourself and others?
I wish I had trusted my intuition!
As this memory illustrates, you already know how to listen and be mindful of your intuition. It is your natural, pre-separation state of mind [See OnenessOneness is a psychological state of mind. It can be described in many ways using phrases such do no harm, and work as one. Separateness is its opposite. More vs. Separateness].
You just need to do it regularly.
To learn more about Reason, Ego, and the Decision-MakerThe Right Choice Model uses the term “Decision-Maker” to describe the part of you that chooses to listen to Ego or Reason. More, pick up the book Reason, Ego, & the Right-Minded Teamwork Myth: The Philosophy & Process for Creating a Right-Minded Team That Works Together as One.
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