Aurora Eggert Coaching

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for doing this for me. And yeah, let’s dive into today’s episode

called the ego, or the monkey mind, who is the monkey mind

what is the monkey mind. And whereas the monkey mind,

I will post a couple of videos to illustrate. But for you, I

want to

Yeah, put it into words, your ego is part of your mind that

identifies and attaches to things that is very opinionated

and judgmental. We need our ego to a certain degree, to feel a

sense of self.

Although I think

most of us are very ego driven. And we could listen a little

more to our hearts and our physical body. And put the

monkey mind the ego a little more. Yeah, into a corner into a

little positive time out.

You can observe your ego especially well, when something

out of the norm, or super annoying is happening to you.

It is, for example,

I can only come back to my phone issues here. How I tried to

problem solve and the assumptions I make all my phone

is broken. Because

I didn’t do updates and I’m just very neglectful with my devices,

I always expect them to function, yet I don’t take

perfect care of them. Hence, I’m

neglectful person. So something happens that is super annoying.

And then you make an assumption about yourself, and this is who

you are.

and The bad thing about us is that it holds you in that

assumption and it makes you be that person that you assume you

are and that’s never a good thing because every morning we

wake up we can be a new person. Every moment in this life we can

decide to make different decisions than we made in the

past. And if we are stuck in a certain way that we think we

are, it is not good.

Now look at other people, when people do something that is out

of your norm that is different than your monkey mind usually

jumps into an s very harsh and judgmental and opinionated.

Look at comedians look at YouTube videos where you know,

other people would laugh and you don’t really think it’s funny.

And there as well you become judgmental. You say, Well, why

is that funny? Why is that person so? Yeah. Silly in this

moment and thinks that this is funny. So this

The SEO, monkey mind when we feel jealous,

the monkey mind is highly active and judges and compares and

makes you feel small and then you want to make the other

person feel

inferior are shitty, and you want to kind of change

the thoughts around that person in order to make you feel

better. So this is also the ego and the monkey mind.

And it’s very interesting to observe because the most secure

people have the least amount of monkey mind activity, or they

know how to not take it too serious. So they hear the

thoughts in their brains, that a one brain they don’t have two

brains. And then they can maybe smile about it, laugh about it,

but put it in the corner. They don’t identify with the monkey

mind. They see it as a maybe even separate entity that does

its thing. But they don’t let it distract from what is really in

front of you. What is reality

skews me. So next time you see yourself being jealous, it’s

very easy to do when you go on Facebook or Instagram or Tick

Tock or whatever. Observe your judgment, your opinions,

your negativity, maybe even. And no, this is not you versus your

little bit of insight and security. And if you could maybe

guide your mind to feel and think inspired

by what is making you jealous by being happy for the other person

even by knowing that the other person achieved a goal or as

successful, because they put every little cell of their body

and mind into that project. And are so dedicated and are so

focused. And this is why they are succeeding. And not because

you’re dumb or young, or whatever excuse you want to

have. And they’re not successful because they were born into a

successful family or they have your money or whatever. They

have a healthy mindset and are okay to reach the goals that

they set themselves. Because there’s tons of people out there

who are born into rich families.

And they absolutely don’t make anything out of what is given to

them. And that’s totally legit. They go their own path. So your

ego is also the part of your brain of your mind. That comes

up with excuses. Oh no, like I can’t do this because I was

always bad and math or Oh no, I can’t learn that

language because back in school, I had bad grades. So your ego

can also really keep you stuck with what I said at the

beginning what you think you are,

and it can

really manipulate you out of beautiful things like love

relationships. Yeah, when you’ve been hurt when you had to go

through a heartbreak and now you meet that new person and you get

to know them and they are just being themselves and your mind

your ego keeps coming up with all one gonna get hurt again, I

will have to have my guard up and I cannot be intimate or

close with that person. Because I might get hurt in the future

again. So your ego is a very good thing it wants to it wants

to protect you at all times. And this is also why it makes it a

bad thing. Because

life is meant to be messy. You will always get hurt and

disappointed and you just got to learn to make healthy

assumptions and conclusions about sorry about yourself and

life in order to be happy and your ego when it is left

unchecked will prevent you from enjoying life to the fullest and

having deep relationships and

Yeah, loving life and people and all the adventures that you can

have. So for the next couple of days, I want you to notice your

monkey mind and befriend your monkey mind, that’s a good part

of your brain. But sometimes it’s just a little too loud,

it’s too active. And it’s trying to, yeah, push you into a

direction that is not oriented towards growth and health. It

keeps you in unhealthy small spaces, sometimes even

disconnected from people and isolating. So have a look at

your monkey mind and have a look at my little videos on

Instagram, and YouTube. Maybe not yet, but Facebook for sure.

And then you will have a different angle on this topic.

Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for

listening. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day. And

yeah, please share my little podcast here with people that

you care about. And I will be out there for you again

tomorrow. Bye bye. Until next time, Aurora with the Borealis