Have you said "E........Go" then keep the 'I' out!

In today's lock down period when all of us are so used to wearing of face masks, there is another mask which people like to wear it is called your 'social mask' or EGO, it thrives on approval and public acknowledgement, Ego is always sustained by power to 'use' and 'abuse' people around you, it is a 'fear of insecurity' what you want to feed all the time. We are today commonly talking about 'social distancing' which means we need to 'keep away' from people physically to stop the virus from spreading, however Ego is such a face mask that automatically keeps people away from us all the time.

Albert Einstein once said "More the knowledge, lesser the Ego and Lesser the knowledge more the Ego". whereas Osho had said "Nothing kills Ego like playfulness, like laughter when you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore"

The ego is our mind's 'false identity' of our own construction. We are more than just the mind. ... When we have thoughts about our self that we agree with we construct our self-image. Your ego is getting in the way of relationships when you're more worried about what others will think if they find out you need you help solving a problem; You fear that your reputation will be at stake if you ask someone for help; Or you believe that if you've come this far on your own, you don't need the help of others to go further you are feeding your ego and nothing else.

The ego has been perceived as the centre of consciousness, whereas the Self is defined as the centre of our total personality, which includes consciousness, the unconscious, and the subconscious; the Self is both the whole and the centre of our personality. The ego is the aspect of our personality that must strike a balance between these basic urges, the moral standards, and the demands of reality.

Whereas pride has some positive connotations, pride means having a feeling of being good and worthy ego has negative consequences. The word pride can be used in a good sense as well as in a bad sense. In a good sense it means having a feeling of self-respect. People can feel proud by being satisfied with their own achievements but ego feeds the mind with the feeling that only 'I' am capable of doing this kind of achievement.

As long as Ego is there inside your mind, there is no place for humility and for learning to be humble each person must try and inculcate these behaviours: Learn to spend time listening to others points of view, we need to practice mindfulness and focus on the present moment only, we need to be always grateful what we have got, we need to ask people to help us whenever we need it, we need to say good things about others and we should never use the word "I" but always use "We", this will review and revise the actions against the use of pride or ego.

Famous Psychologist Sigmund Freud had used the "id, ego, and super-ego" as the three distinct, interacting agents in the psychic apparatus of an egoistic person. Freud had given example of the "ego is like a 'man on horseback', who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength, while the ego uses borrowed forces. The analogy may be carried a little further. Often, a rider, if he is not to be parted from his horse, is obliged to guide the horse where it wants to go; so, in the same way, the ego is in the habit of transforming the id's will into action, as if it were its own".

The Boxing Great Muhammad Ali had once said, “It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.” This is the attitude we foster when ego takes control. We become so self-absorbed with our own greatness that we completely isolate ourselves from the real world. But when we remove our ego, we uncover our humility. While some may define humility as low self-esteem, it’s actually emotional neutrality or balance. It’s an attitude where we don’t need to put ourselves above others, but we don’t put ourselves below them, either. We have to have confidence in ourselves yet recognise that everyone makes a contribution. Humility allows us to behave and react from a sense of purpose, and not from our emotions.

Be humble and always ask the E.....to go....keep the "I" out of the door, so that as a team we can open the door to humility and encourage all those who deserve to be complimented for their own contribution to the team. WE becomes a stronger team because "Together Everyone Achieves More.".