The Three Beliefs of Ego // Spiritual Intelligence 012

[Music] namaste my friends and welcome back to spiritual intelligence so i'll be honest i'm very excited for today's episode because i'm going to be sharing a teaching with you today that i've kept exclusively for my master class and for the first book that i'm working on for over the last two years but recently i've felt a big pull from the inner voice saying that it's time to release this teaching to the public so that's what i'm going to be doing today so this is a sort of a model or an understanding of how the mind

works that came to me many years ago during my dark night of the soul when i was really suffering deeply from depression and just crying out for answers to why my mind was causing me so much torment and looking back this was sort of like a ray of light from heaven that shone down upon my darkness during that time and began to extinguish it and for the last two years i've been teaching this model to my master class students and watching it do the exact same thing for them as well and so today i'm going

to be sharing this teaching with you this teaching is something that i refer to simply as the three beliefs or alternatively sometimes the three beliefs of ego and i truly believe that this is an invaluable resource to humanity's spiritual ascension because as we are going through this planetary shift into the fourth density more and more of these simplified models and understandings of higher consciousness are going to be given to humanity to aid in this transition and i firmly believe that this is one of them because when this understanding is applied consistently it becomes a direct

path for cultivating a quiet peaceful mind in a very short period of time as it gets directly at the heart of the ego's thought system so please join me for this 12th episode of spiritual intelligence as we explore the three beliefs of ego [Music] now i want to stress that what i'm going to be sharing with you today is just a cursory overview of this teaching that this isn't the kind of thing you can just hear it one time and understand it intellectually and then have it start working for you this requires diligent practice and

consistent contemplation to allow this understanding to really sink in to the deeper levels of mind because these three beliefs are so deeply pervasive in the human mind that we don't even realize we have them we don't even realize that they are running the show behind everything we do that causes us to suffer and so it does require a lot of depth of understanding and practice to allow this awareness to really start integrating and so if this teaching is inspiring to you or resonates with you today and you'd like to go deeper into this practice i

have an eight-week master class called master your mind that is singularly focused on drilling in this perspective and integrating these practices and that is available as the first course in 4d university which you can sign up for in the link in the description box below if you're interested so with that being said let's dive into it as many of you are familiar a course in miracles defines the ego as the belief in separation and this is the most accurate definition for the ego that i've come across because it shows us that ego is not an

entity that exists independently or has any objective reality it's just a belief system and this belief system we can say causes certain activities or functions to happen within the mind we can say that when the source projects itself into the dream universe of space-time and it veils itself from its memory that it is the source then what naturally happens is the source looks out through the eyes of this body-mind and says wow i must be a separate individual self that's existing inside of a separate world and i have to interact with this world and fight

to survive within it this is the essence of the belief in separation so incarnation into third density automatically comes with this belief in place and this belief in separation we could say causes three fundamental activities within the mind which i call the three beliefs so if you have an ego then it believes these three things and only these three things it has no independent existence apart from them because again ego is not an entity that exists or can be gotten rid of it is a belief system that one must see through it is a realization

one must come to so if you work towards eradicating these three beliefs from your mind then the ego itself is eradicated and that is the power of this teaching as i mentioned before this understanding came through for me during a time of my life when i was suffering severely from extreme bouts of depression for many many years and i've been doing every spiritual practice in the book that i could think of to try and eliminate this depression and nevertheless it just kept on returning again and again with a new story with a new twist or

a new reason why i should still be hopeless about my life and so my frustration grew more intense towards the universe that i felt something was unfair about this experience that i know at the core of what i am is peace and happiness and freedom i know this depression is an illusion so why can't i get rid of it and it was through this intense crying out for answers that this understanding came through literally in the course of one night and the dots were connected easily and effortlessly all of my suffering was actually created not

from stories but from three fundamental beliefs that every human being holds about themselves and operates life through that the ego creates all of our stories out of it's like the clay that ego uses to create new pottery new stories out of once this understanding was firmly in place for me then my entire approach to healing my depression changed dramatically i just began committing myself to this one practice of stopping in any moment i felt suffering and identifying which one of these three beliefs is this story built out of and then correcting that belief with the

truth and within a matter of months my depression was gone without a trace so i can't say that this practice will work this effectively for everybody but what i can say is that it has worked this effectively for hundreds of my class students who have applied this teaching to their life now you may be thinking but come on aaron the ego crafts its stories in such clever ways how can we possibly be sure which one of these three beliefs is behind any specific story or thought and that is the beauty of this practice this system

is laser accurate and extraordinarily simple because the answer is we can know exactly which belief is functioning by listening to our emotions your emotions are a built-in guidance system that is always telling you whether your thinking is correct or incorrect and the mistake that we make in regards to our emotions is that we believe that they are speaking to our external circumstances and this is exactly what ego wants you to think but the truth is that your emotions are only ever speaking to one thing in particular and that is your self perception i have a

video on the emotional guidance system that i can link to if you want a further breakdown on how the emotional guided system works and this is also a core teaching that we go in depth on in my master your mind course but for the purpose of this video all you need to know is that your emotions are only ever letting you know if you're perceiving yourself correctly or incorrectly meaning when i perceive myself in a way that is in alignment with the way that the source sees me i will feel a positive emotion joy love

peace etc and when i perceive myself in a way that the source does not perceive me then i will feel a negative emotion specifically a form of sadness some form of anger or some form of fear so not only does our emotions let us know when we are perceiving ourself incorrectly but they also tell us exactly what kind of misperception we're having and so this is the beauty and the simplicity of this system that you don't need to play mind games with your thoughts and stories because your mind will distract you and confuse you by

jumping around from thought to thought and story to story and it's very hard to track with but your emotions will never lead you astray they will take you right to the heart of what the error is and then allow you to correct it so a lot of people say well you can't trust your emotions because your emotions will lead you astray and quite the opposite is the truth by the time you feel a negative emotion you've already gone astray somewhere in your self-perception so let's go ahead and dive into these three beliefs now and discover

exactly what they are as we've said these three beliefs are sort of like the three natural activities of the mind once you believe that you are separate so each of these three beliefs kind of flows downstream from one another meaning that the first belief implies the second one and the second belief implies the third one they're all seamlessly connected so we can say that the first belief that manifests from separation is the belief in lack if i am separate then i am lacking i am inadequate i am incomplete there's something inherently missing that needs to

be completed in me so i call this i am incomplete and this belief is generated from the root chakra as we know the root chakra contains all the energies of survival the need to survive and the need to survive is based on the need to fulfill lack in the animal kingdom survival of the fittest is basically determined by who can fulfill their lack the best there's always something lacking that needs to be fulfilled i'm either lacking food or water or shelter or a mate or the ability to defend myself from attackers and predators but this

constant need to fulfill lack is pervasive in the human mind because it stems all the way back to our animal brain sadness can come in many shapes and sizes right we can feel depression we can feel self-loathing we can feel grief loneliness hopelessness bitterness disappointment rejection and so forth but if any variation of sadness is being experienced you know for certain that the belief in lack is at play in your mind and so when we feel sadness we don't need to go into the stories and get lost and why am i feeling this and let

me find the reason we already know the reason immediately fundamentally i believe that i'm incomplete that something about me is missing and so that belief needs to be questioned and corrected with the truth only what i do not give can ever be lacking because i am the source of everything that i want virtually every action people take is secretly motivated by this unconscious belief that i'm incomplete i'm lacking something whatever it is and it needs to be fulfilled and so the body just acts out this desire to complete itself which is why people can't be

present with their life they're on a search to fulfill themselves and this is also why when the belief in lack is transcended the mind becomes very quiet and still and peaceful because what is there to do if you're not lacking anything so the second belief of ego is just the logical conclusion of the belief in lack and it is the belief in outcome happiness or external fulfillment i like to call it my happiness depends on outcomes if i am lacking if i am incomplete well then the logical conclusion is i have to go complete myself

with something and we could narrow down the something that ego wants to outcomes whatever kind of outcome it is the acquisition of some kind of object or experience or acceptance or approval or whatever but an outcome is what i am missing right now and if i can just get that outcome then i'll truly be happy and this is what creates attachments or desires personal desires or attachments are generated from the second energy center the sacral chakra and this energy center contains all of the energies of our relationship to our self how we perceive ourself and

how we think and feel about ourself so all personal desires for fulfillment are generated from this energy center and all the blockages that result from this attachment are manifested in the second energy center we all live our lives with this uninvestigated assumption that outcomes are really what we're looking for in life positive pleasurable outcomes are what actually satisfy us and so the next thrill the next high the next achievement the next vacation the next thing whatever it is that's what i'm really looking for when i just achieve that outcome then i'll truly be happy and

so this triggers the fight response in us of anger because if somebody blocks us from achieving that outcome they must pay and this emotion also comes in many varieties like hatred envy resentment frustration and irritation somebody must be punished for a missed outcome whether myself whether somebody else or maybe even god itself but somebody is guilty and must be punished so there is this primal force within us that drives us to seek after outcomes constantly and yet the very second that ego gets an outcome that it wants it hardly even slows down to enjoy it

before it's right on to chasing the next one so this belief in outcome happiness puts us on this wild goose chase this never-ending hamster wheel that we will run on perpetually until we see through the illusion in external fulfillment that nothing outside of me can make me happy or complete so what i'm looking for what i want is not an outcome what i want is peace of mind in this moment this is why the second belief can be summarized as attachment because if i project my future happiness onto an outcome or a moment in the

future then i have to be attached to that outcome and i have to do whatever it takes to get it so the second belief puts us at war against reality the mind is constantly in conflict with life as it is because life isn't delivering me the outcomes that i need to be fulfilled so life is my enemy and i have to control it and bend it to my will and that leads us to the third belief of ego i am in control the third belief of ego is the belief in personal doership because the ego

sees itself as separate from life it believes that it's always acting apart from the whole it is choosing its own actions in spite of life or independently from life this is the belief in personal doership but of course everything is an activity of life just like every wave is an activity of the ocean every person is behaving exactly as their environment their conditioning and their socialization has taught them to so the idea that there is an independent doer of actions is a total illusion that the mind projects but it is the most sophisticated of the

three beliefs of the ego just as the third energy center is the most sophisticated of the lower three it is the highest manifestation of the belief in being separate i am in control here so we have to strive to see that nobody controls life or turns the gears of reality what an arrogant assumption you are one of the gears that reality is turning right now you are being lived by life so non-viewership is kind of too big of a subject to tackle in this video but i have a number of videos on my channel about

non-dewar ship if you want to explore this understanding further but it is probably the one we spend the most time centering on in the master class because it is so sophisticated and so subtle in the way that it shows up but to the mind we can say control certainty and safety are necessities so when the mind believes it has control it feels certain and safe and when it believes it's losing control or doesn't have control it feels terrified so the belief in personal doership the third belief causes the emotional body to respond with some kind

of fear stress worry anxiety panic paranoia some variation of fear is the emotional body's response to the third belief that i am in control it triggers the animalistic freeze response that says i don't know what to do right now because i'm not in control anymore when someone has an anxiety attack or a panic attack it's always because they believe they're losing control over something over the situation over their ability to think or their ability to breathe or whatever it might be but the ego dreads the idea of not being in control of life it's basically

akin to death from the ego's perspective because ego does not trust reality at all it sees life as a dangerous enemy that it has to oppose and fight and dominate and control into submission it doesn't know that it's every urge and it's every action is being motivated by cosmic forces far beyond its control it's like a finger that scratches an itch on your body and then says i the index finger have alone scratched the itch and yet of course the itch itself came from the body the urge to scratch it came from the mind the

ability for the finger to move came from the muscles and the nervous system nothing the finger did was done independently but you can only fear losing control if you first believe that you had it to begin with and so that is why the correction for the third belief is i'm not in control i am being lived and so we have lack attachment and control the unholy trinity of the ego's thought system the three beliefs of ego if i believe i am a separate self then there is lack if there is lack there is attachment if

there's attachment there is control and every story your mind makes up every thought you think that causes you to suffer is just stemming from one of these three beliefs and so until you eradicate these beliefs from your mind the ego can always keep creating new stories and thoughts based on those beliefs for all eternity as long as the potential for thought exists within you thoughts will arise and that potential is what do i fundamentally believe about who i am remember these beliefs are like the clay that ego uses to mold its little figurines out of

and torment you with and so you can get rid of one of its figurines and it can just take more clay and mold a new one over and over again forever so what i say is stop wasting time trying to get rid of all the figurines and just get rid of the clay and that is exactly what this practice helps you to do so we're in the middle of this series on the ascension spiral and in our previous episode we talked about shadow work as one form of gross purification which is the cleansing of our

emotions and energetic blockages in the physical body this is the first level of healing today we're talking about one form of subtle purification with the three beliefs subtle purification is the cleansing of the mind and the thoughts and the blockages we're holding within the mind this is the second level of healing and so next week we're going to finish up our series on the ascension spiral by talking about causal purification the third and final level of healing on the ascension spiral and it is the cleansing of our karmic blockages which show up in our life

catalysts and the experiences we attract to ourselves and we're going to use this understanding we learned today of the three beliefs to get right to the heart of our life catalysts much quicker and easier so i want to thank you for watching this episode of spiritual intelligence have a blessed week and i'll see you in our next episode hey everyone thank you for watching today's video i hope that you were truly blessed by it and i wanted to let you know that i'm really excited to now be partnering with an amazing conscious supplement company called

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