Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] What's going on, you beautiful human? You're listening to the spiritual show podcast from thespiritualroom. Co. This podcast is a space where we blend ancient wisdom with new age teachings around spirituality, awakening, quantum physics, astrology and more. Join us for weekly episodes where we dive deep into this truth and expand our consciousness as a collective. Hey, what's going on, you beautiful light being? My name is Danielle Grant and I'll be the host on today's spiritual show. Today on our show, we will be discussing the spiritual evolution, also known as spiritual ascension, and we are going to be talking about the ego aspect of the human. I cannot wait to dive into this one with you today. And if you enjoyed today's episode and you'd like to help support the podcast, please share it with others, post about it on social media, or leave a rating and review. Without further ado. Let's kick this off. Here are your upcoming events for the spiritual room. 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But those are our upcoming events and offerings that we have available for you. Click the links in the show notes to grab your copy of the playbook or register for the ultimate journal Experience. We are going to kick things off today talking about spiritual evolution and if you are new to the podcast, what is up? We are pumped to have you here. If you are not new and you are a returning listener, what is up? We are grateful you are back here with us on another episode today. We want to talk about spiritual evolution because the last few episodes we've been talking about soul contracts. We've been talking about the energies of the planets. We've been talking about the spiritual awakening. And I want to really ground us in what we're doing, which is ultimately we are evolving as humans into a higher, dense frequency human, right. That's what we call the spiritual awakening, spiritual ascension. And so the human is actually evolving into a higher spiritual being of itself. And some people call this spiritual evolution. Some people call this spiritual ascension. They're both ideally talking about the same thing, which is meaning you are ascending, right, or you are evolving into a different thing, a different version, a different frequency. And that's exactly what's happening right now. And that's exactly why you're listening to this podcast, is because we are in a spiritual awakening. We're in a spiritual ascension. We're in a spiritual evolution. But just calling it that is not enough for us to actually activate the evolution or the ascension within oneself. We need to understand what is going on, and we need to talk about what is going on so that you don't actually get lost in the journey, because it's really easy to get lost in the journey. There's a lot of information out there, there's a lot of teachers, guides, there's a lot of things out there that you can purchase that support the spiritual ascension and evolution journey. But quite a few of those things are not grounded in actual evolution and ascension. They're just grounded in the feel good awakening that we have come to realize as a society. And so that's why I want to talk about it today. And before I get any, any further in this conversation, I just want to acknowledge that we here on the spiritual show, podcast and in the spiritual room are not about saying that we are the only people here with this wisdom. We are about having you more, so not having you, teaching you. We are about teaching you discernment so that you can understand which teachers are in alignment with you and which teachers are not in alignment with you. And if that's how we can support you understanding what's for you and what's not for you, then we here on the podcast and at the spiritual room have done our job. We will always be looking to bring the highest quality teachers and conversations to not only the spiritual room, but to this podcast. And we just wanted to share that, that it's not about pointing out who is better than or not better than. It's about helping you understand that you understand where you're going. And it's up to us here at the spiritual room, and Danielle is a spiritual guide to help you get into alignment and resonance with where it is that you're going. And that's what we're going to do here today. So what is a spiritual evolution? As I just said, the spiritual evolution is us waking up. It is us realizing that we are first and foremost a spiritual being before we are a human being. And we are awakening to that. And our job is to evolve. And for thousands of years we have been evolving, but we've been evolving into a third density, into a third 3d reality, which is of lower frequency. And so as we've been evolving, the aspect of us that's actually been evolving the greatest has actually been the ego aspect, the human aspect, which we're going to get into later on today's show. But that aspect has been predominantly the one that's been evolving, which is why this whole caveman conversation and like the ego and the limitation is so predominant, because that's the aspect that's been growing and expanding.
[00:05:29] Now, it's not to say the spiritual essence within you hasn't been evolving as well, because naturally they both have to coexist with each other. So while I say that you're human has been evolving into a certain aspect, at the same time, your higher self, your conscious self, God, source, infinite intelligence, has also been evolving and expanding and getting ready for you to be ready, to be ready to be ready, like Abraham Hicks talks about, right? So the spiritual evolution is about us awakening to the fact that our human has evolved itself into a lower state of frequency, which is the world. And we are now understanding that we get to evolve beyond that place. Greater to that. It's not even that we understand it, it's that we understand that we actually hold the power to make that happen and that we are capable of it. And it's not the governments that tell us what to do or teachers or books or anything. It's actually us. As the individual within us has the power to evolve beyond the third density and shift into the fourth density and fifth density. And if you're like, what is the densities? Danielle, don't worry about it. I am going to be doing an episode on the densities, breaking them out and showing you exactly what they look like. So be a really good understanding of what densities are and what we're talking about. So that is the spiritual evolution, ideally that we are evolving out of our human entity into more of our higher conscious state. Now, obviously, your human doesn't just dissolve, your human stays here. However, your awareness and your wisdom and your ability to comprehend things increases, which is actually what creates the evolution, right? It creates the evolution from out of the ego and into the highest aspect, the conscious self. So the spiritual evolution is just us waking up. And how do you know you're in the evolution? Well, you're listening to this episode. You're listening to this podcast.
[00:07:10] But if you truly want to know, how do you know if you're in the evolution? If you're someone who is seeking change, if you're someone who's seeking answers, if you're someone who, maybe you're not even taking any actions to make any changes, but you have a very strong desire within you to actually make some changes, you're in an evolution. If there's any part of you that is seeking change or transformation, even if you're not taking action but you're seeking it, you are in the evolution, which means you're aware to you are wanting change or something different. That is the evolution. That is the ascension. Right. So how do you know when you're in it? Well, most likely, if you're listening to this podcast, you're in it. And if you're listening to this podcast and you're like, no, I'm not, why are you listening to this podcast?
[00:07:48] Right? You're listening to this podcast because you want to evolve. You want to get new wisdom, and the spiritual show is giving you that information so that you can evolve into a greater aspect of yourself. Yourself.
[00:07:57] So you are in the evolution, and we as a collective on planet Earth are in the evolution. And that's what we've been talking about on this podcast, is that we are collectively shifting. And so everybody is in this evolution. There isn't anybody that isn't here right now listening to this and not listening to this. That isn't in this evolution. It is here and it is now. What kind of things can you expect in your evolution? Spiritual evolution. Right away, the first thing that you should expect, but you have to be cautious with this one because an expectation and a truth are two totally different things. So you should expect a truth that there is going to be chaos, there is going to be resistance, there's going to be limitations, there's going to be negativity. There's going to be things pulling you backwards. Now, when I say that someone's ego, listening to this, might take that and think, I need to expect that these crazy things are going to happen, or I'm not in an evolution or an ascension, it's like, no, no, no. That's not what we're talking about. We're never expecting for negative things to happen. That's ego. That's low vibe self. We're going to get into that shortly.
[00:09:00] What we're expecting is that the truth of it is, is that there's going to be, what I like to call a threshold. There's going to be an energetic aspect of yourself that has to shift. And just like you go into the gym, when you lose the weight, the body has to lose the weight so that it looks a different way. Right? Same thing here. When you do the spiritual work, the energy has to change. Therefore, the change looks like the chaos. It looks like the resistance, because that energy of once was, of the version of you that is stuck or limited or holding back or not sure, whatever it is, low vibe. That aspect has to change. And so when you change that aspect, that's when things get a little bit chaotic. And I'm bringing this up because, again, it's not an expectation that I have to have chaotic and limitation and negativity occur for me to be in an evolution. That's not what I'm talking about, which is why I'm very clearly creating a distinction between the two. I am telling you that you should not be sitting in a place of thinking. I've just decided I'm going to change my life. I've decided I'm going to create my awakening. I'm going to go all in, and this is going to be rainbows and butterflies and sunshines and rainbows and just. I've already said rainbows. But like anything that's happy, that is not the realistic truth. That is not the expected truth of this, this conversation. The expected truth of this conversation. And what you should expect is that it's going to be messy before it becomes better. It's going to be uncomfortable before it gets comfortable. That is naturally how we actually move through energy. And at our core, if we remove our physical essence, we are energy. And so we need to look at that. So when I say what kind of things you should be expecting, you should be expecting experiences that challenges you. You should be expecting conversations that challenge you. You should be expecting things that you feel like you're just like, are breaking you down. You should be expecting those things because that is the evolution.
[00:10:46] Again, you can't evolve if you don't change. And so for us to sit here and think like, everything has to be perfect for us to evolve, there's no change, change happening.
[00:10:56] There's nothing that's moving, right. You're just staying where you are. And so if you're like, okay, I, right now in my life, have awareness that it's a little bit chaotic, it's kind of crazy. In my life right now. I feel like there's negativity anywhere. I feel like I can't talk to anybody, anything. I feel like every time I look, something goes wrong in my life or my business. If that's how you are feeling right now, then I want you to get grounded in the fact that you're exactly where you need to be. And as weird as that sounds to your human self, you are literally exactly where you need to be. Because without the place that you're in right now that's so uncomfortable, you cannot even create a change. The change can't even exist. So if you're in that place, yes. It's not about. It's not about getting stuck in it. It's about having awareness that you're in it. Right? So what kinds of things should I expect in a spiritual evolution? You should expect change. You should expect discomfort. You should expect things that are chaotic. You should expect these things. They are expected truths.
[00:11:50] The next thing that you're really going to want to ask yourself is how can you get grounded in your spiritual evolution? So if I'm telling you right now, hey, you should expect some negative things occurring in your life, then you want to know how to ground yourself in that. And one of the fastest and quickest ways to ground ourselves is, honestly to close our eyes and become one with our breath. You don't need some fancy meditation music. You don't need any of that. You just need to become one with your breath. And so one of the ways that you get grounded in your spiritual evolution is realizing that if you're in a chaotic place or an unsure place, you're in it. Therefore, once you're in it, you want to ground yourself in that truth, right? You can close your eyes, connect to your breath, and say out loud to yourself or in your mind, I'm in this evolution right now. And as much as it may seem chaotic around me, I'm extremely grounded. I know what is occurring in my life, and I'm very much looking forward to what is on the other side of the shift. This transformation, this evolution that is so simple for you to do. It doesn't require anything other than you to have a conversation with yourself about showing yourself where you're at in your spiritual evolution and how what you might be perceiving as negative is actually part of the evolution. Grounding yourself in that truth is what you need. Now, you might hear people tell you you need chakra meditations, you need to do journaling, you need to do all of these things to ground yourself in your spiritual evolution. But the truth of it is you just have to ground yourself in the awareness and understanding that the spiritual evolution at times can be chaotic, at times can challenge you, at times can feel resistant. And when you're in those places, you're exactly where you need to be. That's how you can ground yourself in the spiritual evolution. It's not something externally out of you. It's within you, where you get to ground yourself that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. I'm going to repeat that. There's nothing externally outside of you that's actually going to ground you. Okay? There's not an ayahuasca ceremony. There's not a healing tactic. There's not a chakra meditation. There's none of that. Those are all modalities and tools that serve what is ever going on within you. So for you to actually get grounded in your spiritual evolution, you want to be grounded within yourself and the truth and knowing of what the evolution is, that is what you need to be doing for yourself. And on that note, if you're like, danielle, I want to know more about how I can do that. Then you are going to want to join us in our private community on Facebook. I go live in there every single Tuesday. I allow you guys to ask questions, give me topics to talk about. We've definitely been talking a lot about soul contracts and past lives and like, all of that stuff, which I totally get why everyone's exploring it. But if you're like, yes, I want to know more how to ground myself in this evolution. And I understand that it's more about me inside of me than the external tools on the outside. Join us in the Facebook community. Start to engage in the community. Let us know what's coming up for you. Ask questions. We have prompts in there. We have tons of things that are supporting you in this specific conversation and topic. So you can go ahead and click that link in the show notes and you can join us in the spiritual room community on Facebook. Wrapping up this conversation about spiritual evolution. We talked about what is spiritual evolution? I talked about how, you know, you're in an evolution, which you are. We talked about what kind of things you should expect, and we talked about how you can ground yourself. The other part of this conversation is also recognizing that part of the evolution is a very positive experience. Right? Like anything, duality, yin and yang, positive and negative, right?
[00:15:08] The other side is the positive aspect. So in your evolution, it's not just all shit and negative and resistance. It is at the beginning. And that's the part that most people get stuck on because then the ego shows up, which we're about to talk about. And that's what stops people from moving forward.
[00:15:22] But the other side of you moving through your limitations and doubt and all of that stuff is the positive, is the evolution, is you being in a different place, is you having those things that you want, is you having more awareness, is you not being stuck in your ego self. Right? So as much as we expect things that you should expect the chaos and the limitations and the resistance, because that's part of it, you should also expect that the other part, the other half of it is that you will receive the positive side. You will receive what you want. You will receive the evolution. And so that's something to remember as well.
[00:15:52] And again, if you want to join us in this conversation, then go ahead and click that link in the show notes and join us in the Facebook community, or go ahead and join us in the ultimate journal experience as that is actually going to take you through a spiritual evolution over six weeks. I'm just not particularly positioning it that way, but that is what it is. Over six weeks is I'm taking you through a spiritual evolution, a spiritual ascension of where you are right now and where you want to be, leveraging a tool called journaling. No matter if you're new or you've been journaling for decades, this is actually about your spiritual evolution. It's a six week experience to do that. So if you want to join us, click that link and grab your spot. But let's go ahead and talk about the ego aspect, the ego aspect of the human.
[00:16:36] Okay, for those of you who don't know a little bit about my background, I actually previously to the spiritual room, had a company called your mindset mentor that was predominantly working with entrepreneurs in helping them in mindset and business strategy. I happened to just basically fall into your mindset mentor. At the time that I was deciding to try this entrepreneurship thing, a lot of people kind of had guided me into that way. But the real reason why I ended up in that way, guided into mindset, is that mindset is my jam. What's not really my jam is I'm not really here to serve the entrepreneur in the business strategy and to make more money per se. I'm more here to help them on the vibrational side of making more money in business strategy, which is all the reason of the spiritual room and my own personal offerings.
[00:17:20] And that is why your mindset mentor didn't really work for me is because it wasn't what I was here to do. I'm clearly here to do this. But the point of this is that this is my jam. And the reason why I own a spiritual company today is because this is my jam. And I got into mindset when I was 14 years old because of my own personal experience. And what that led me to is to seek books and understanding in libraries and just experiences that would allow me to receive higher wisdom. And because I was extremely passionate about understanding the thoughts that were going on in my mind, which is mindset, right. I became very attracted to anything that I could find that was helping me understand the ego, the subconscious and the conscious self. I was very intrigued by understanding how we created our own thoughts, how at that time, I had created thoughts in my mind to make me believe that I didn't want to be here. I wanted to take my life. And so from that point forward, I became very curious about that aspect of me. And I was like, how, one, what is that aspect of me? And two, how did I create those beliefs? Like, I come from this absolutely beautiful family. How could I have created those beliefs for myself?
[00:18:29] And so that is why mindset is my jam. And that's why I'm super pumped to be talking about this topic today. Because this ego aspect of us is the one aspect I have honestly been able to pinpoint as the aspect that we have to awaken within our conversation, within our society.
[00:18:46] Because this personal development world distorts it greatly. It skews the ego into thinking into us, thinking that it's something, that it's not actually worse than it really is. And the spiritual side of it, it basically blankets right over it, unless you are actually seeking it within Buddhism, because Buddhism does the best of explaining those mindsets, which is ultimately where I found myself at a young age. And 20 years later, here we are. But this ego aspect is the human aspect that you are actually seeking information about. And if you're listening to this podcast, like the whole spiritual conversation and astrology and chakras and energy and manifestation and the whole thing is all rooted in conscious energy. Well, everything is conscious energy, including the ego. But no one's really talking about the ego. No one's really talking about the human aspect. No one's really talking about the operating system in which is controlling all of those spiritual things.
[00:19:40] And this is why most people suffer with getting not suffer, too, but most people struggle and suffer to make changes in their life or to ascend or to evolve, because they don't actually understand this aspect, because like I just said, we don't really understand it. And so the ego aspect is one, first of all, conscious energy. Okay? So it is of spiritual conscious energy, but it is only available to us in our physical form to actually experience it through the lens in which the ego was created, which is to offer duality, which is yin and yang, positive and negative. We can only experience it in physical form.
[00:20:17] And so while ego energy exists in non physical form, at that point we would just call it conscious energy or even part of our akashic record.
[00:20:28] But when you come into incarnation, into the human, you instantly activate the human. And in the human is the ego aspect, and in that ego aspect is that duality. And so you come into your physical existence, and now you, you are in the operating system of the ego, while your higher self, your conscious self, your spiritual self, God, infinite source intelligence, is always right beside you. All your angel guides, all that good stuff, is always right beside you. You are actually here in this physical essence, me. Right now I'm recording. This is a physical being, right?
[00:20:55] That operating system is the one that we need to be looking at, because that operating system is the one that controls our thoughts. It controls our subconscious. It controls what we do. It controls our habits. It controls all of it. And so the first thing we need to understand is, what is the ego aspect? The ego aspect is the human aspect of us that experiences duality, and that offers us the ability to make decisions and to have positive decisions and negative decisions. That is what the ego is. And so everything that you're doing in your physical essence and physical life is all, first and foremost, being deployed through an operating system of the ego. So anything that you or I do in our life is instantly going to go through a lens of the ego. Anything that I do is going to go through a lens of the ego first. And for me to find my conscious self or the positive aspect in it, I have to pull it through, through reflection or affirmations or mantras or writing, right? Because the first part of me that shows up is an ego. So let me give you a really good example of this. I most recently created the ultimate journal playbook, right? The physical aspect of me was super doubting. It was like, this isn't going to work. How do you know how to do this? You don't even know how to create this. You don't even know how to publish this. Like, none of this is going to work. So immediately, my ego self, my human self, my operating system, when I thought about taking action on something went to a very limited and distorted place. I can either choose to stay there in my ego aspect, or I can stop and say, but wait a minute here. I also have a conscious aspect to me. And what is my conscious aspect saying?
[00:22:19] My conscious aspect is telling me, now is the time for the book. You do know how to do this. Everything that you need will be. Will flow to you. Everything is going to work out. Now is the time to create the book.
[00:22:30] So that is me showing you that first and foremost, anything that I want to do is coming through my ego human lens, which is already going to be most likely negative and limited because that's how we've reincarnated and evolved, right. Evolved over the years into a lower vibe version of ourself. But I know I have enough discernment, and so do you, to stop and say, wait a minute here. I don't want to. I don't want to believe that to be true. What do I want to believe to be true that would support me and serve me? And then I ask that, and I ask that question, and then I hear the answer and I repeat it. And there now I've dropped out of the ego aspect, and I'm into my conscious aspect. I mean, to my higher self aspect. And this doesn't say that the ego goes away, because it doesn't go away. It's here in your physical essence. So for as long as you're here, right, even Buddha, you experience it. Are you able to actually minimize it by the amount that you spend within your mind and looking at your thoughts and your beliefs? Yeah, of course you are. That would be called enlightenment, right? You are enlightened to a place where you can liberate yourself from your thoughts and your beliefs and your stories that are keeping you in suffering. Right? That is the whole point of this. But understanding what the ego is first and foremost, and understanding that it isn't ever going to go away might actually set you up for change in your life right now than any other time you've been trying before. Because all the time our ego is trying to tell us, I just want this to be easier. I just want that voice to go away. I just don't want the doubt and limitation. And I'm not going to make a move until those thoughts go away. That's where we get into procrastination and overthinking, because the thoughts don't ever go away. You just have to know what they are and how to navigate them. So let's talk about how to navigate them first. Off. You want to ask yourself in any given moment of your day where you're feeling afraid or doubtful or nervous or procrastinating or overthinking or anything negative or low vibe, you want to ask yourself, am I in my ego aspect right now? Just asking that question will answer it for you and you'll most likely be like, yeah, I am. And then you want to ask yourself, if I wasn't believing what my ego is telling me, what would I want to believe to be more true? And this is something that I created in mindset mentor, which is called the three step mindset framework. And I think I've talked about it on the show before, but you want to ask yourself, like, am I in an ego low vibes aspect right now? Am I in a limitation or doubt right now? Yes, I am. Okay. If I weren't believing that to be true, what would I want to believe to be true? Right? Like my journal playbook. Well, I want to believe to be true that I can get this published. It is going to work. Everyone is seeking it, and I do know exactly what to do. And for the record, the book is self published. I did create the whole thing. It is working and it all worked out. You know what I mean? Of course it did. But to begin with, my ego wasn't. And so I had to learn how to navigate it. I had to learn that I was in an ego distortion. And then I had to be like, okay, I consciously want to navigate through this.
[00:25:14] So to navigate it, you want to ask questions, and then why do we navigate it? We have to navigate it because this goes back to the same conversation of personal development.
[00:25:21] We are, in it, bound to an operating system of the human. And so if we don't operate the operating system, the operating system operates us.
[00:25:30] And that is where a lot of people are living.
[00:25:34] So why do we want to navigate it? We want to navigate it because that gives you your power back. That gives you your awareness, that gives you your evolution.
[00:25:43] That is like one of the most powerful things you can turn onto in this lifetime. And this might be the piece of wisdom that you're seeking, because this is what people aren't talking about. We have to awaken the human operating system so that it stops operating us. We have to be the operator. We are the operator. We came in here to be the operator. And we've been reincarnating lifetime after lifetime to awaken to the fact that we are the operator, not the other way around. Right? So how can you really discern between the ego and the higher self. And if you don't, you know, discernment really just means people to tell between the two, right? Am I discerning between the two? But how can you tell between the ego and the higher self?
[00:26:24] One, like I just said, is you can ask yourself questions, am I in an ego aspect or am I on a higher self aspect? Am I in a low vibe self, or am I a high vibe self? Right. Those. That is just really easy to discern between the two, but the next level, and if you're into energy and you're into frequency and you're into that conversation, then the greatest way to actually discern between ego and higher self is how you feel.
[00:26:50] Because you know when you're in a doubting, limiting, fearful place, you can feel it, right? You could. Your being contracts. You can feel that anxious feeling in your heart chakra, in your heart center, right? You know? And you know when you're in your higher self, because you feel expansive, you feel aligned, you feel powerful. And might I just also add that when you're in your higher self, similar to the spiritual evolution or the. Yeah, the spiritual evolution conversation, it's not always negative and it's not always positive. So there's times where I'm creating my ultimate journal playbook, and I'm super in my high vibe self and I'm flowing and I'm doing this, but there's still problems and things and resistance and limitations that are occurring around me. But in my being, I feel less limitation, I feel less doubtful, I feel more alignment, I feel more excitement. And so for me, in that place, I'm able to discern, oh, well, I'm still in a very high vibe aspect of myself. There's still an aspect of me that is feeling afraid and nervous. But I am predominantly, predominantly feeling into my higher self. I'm predominantly feeling into what this looks like. And so that, for you, is the next level. And if you're not new to the spiritual conversation, this is what you need to start looking at. You need to start looking at how to discern in your feelings. You need to know what it feels like when you're in your ego self, your low vibe self. You need to really train your mental mind, that ego aspect. This is what it feels like to be in a low vibe self. And again, you don't even have to train it. You know what it feels like. Like you're probably listening to this right now, and you can feel it within you.
[00:28:17] Conversely, the other side of that is the higher self, right? You want to train yourself to know what it feels like to be in a place that feels aligned, that feels like you're believing, it feels like you're awake. It feels like you're aware. Once you can start to feel into each of those states and spaces. Now, you don't have to have these outward conversations with yourself in the journal or whatever. You can literally have the communication from the way that you're feeling because you've discerned between the two. You've told yourself, okay, I've identified this feeling as low vibe. I've identified this feeling as high vibe. So right now, where am I sitting? I'm feeling a little bit more high vibe. Okay, great. I'm discerning that I'm sitting more in my higher self, my conscious self, versus my ego self, my low life self. And honestly, I would probably say 80% of people actually sit in their ego self, and they think that they're in their higher self. And so if you are that person, I empower you to bring more awareness to this aspect of yourself.
[00:29:11] Because if you think you're in high, higher self, high vibe energy, but you're actually operating through your subconscious lens, through an ego aspect, a low vibe self, then you're not actually operating in a higher vibe self. And that is actually working against you. And that is why we need discernment. We have to know how to know what it is like to be in these experiences, because if we don't, then we don't realize that we think we're operating from a high life self, but we're operating an ego self, and we're just choosing to ignore it because the feeling within us is telling us that we're there, but we're just not listening to the feeling because we want to basically tell ourselves, no, I'm doing the right thing. I'm in the high vibe self, even though it's actually causing resistance for you. And that's why the discernment conversation is so, so powerful.
[00:29:56] And I know that everyone's famous question is, well, Danielle, how do I get rid of the ego? And I already touched on this. You cannot get rid of the ego. So how do you actually surrender to the ego? Is the question that you're asking me, because it's not a question of how do I get rid of it. It's how do I surrender to the ego? How you surrender to the ego is first you stop fighting it and pretending like it doesn't exist. Okay. You know exactly what aspect of you I'm talking about. You know exactly the voice within you, the feelings, you know what this aspect of you looks like.
[00:30:23] Surrender to it. It's here, it's there. It's not going anywhere for as long as you're alive. So become friends with it. Become friends with it. And that would be the second thing that I would say to surrender to the ego is you need to become friends with it. I am in friendship with my ego. I communicate to it daily. I am very in tune with what it is thinking that I don't want to be thinking. I know very much what my ego is doing in a day to day basis. And this doesn't to say that I have control over it because you don't have control over the ego. But I do have control over whether my ego self writes it in my subconscious mind negatively or if I just allow myself to see it and be like, yeah, I know that you're there. I see what you're trying to communicate to me. Yes, I do feel doubt in this area. Thank you for reminding me that. I do. Right. But it's all about becoming one with the ego, which is the whole point of the spiritual evolution conversation, which is that you're awakening to becoming one with the self, one with the collective, one with source, God and intelligence. So how do you surrender to the ego? One is you accept it, and then two is you start being friends with it, right? Because if you're. If you think about you right now, you most likely have actually been trying to suppress it. You've been trying to push it away and not listen to it. You don't want to look at it. You don't want to listen to the limitation. You don't want to listen to the past stories. You don't want to listen to any of it, because who wants to? Nobody does. But that is called suppression, and that's actually stifling your ascension and your evolution. So look at it. And the only reason why you don't look at it is because you don't realize that you need it in your growth. Because, again, that goes back to the conversation of the ego, the subconscious and the conscious.
[00:31:47] We've removed that from our dialogue and our reality is that we actually need the ego awareness for us to evolve and ascend, and we need to become friends with it for us to become one with ourselves. You're not going to find that information very many places.
[00:32:01] So surrender to the ego. Surrender to the truth that is there and that it exists. And once you do that, you'll find that your relationship to it changes. But greater to that, you'll find that you can actually start moving beyond it quicker because you're. You're not allowing yourself to be a victim of the ego. You're actually seeing that you need whatever the experience is for your evolution, for your growth, whether it's positive or negative, you understand that you need it, it's part of it. And you don't try to separate it. You don't try to suppress it. Nothing. That's where the power comes in. So I'm so grateful that we got to touch on this ego aspect today. You will definitely be hearing me talk more about the ego, the subconscious and the conscious in this conversation because it really is all part of it. And it's important that you awaken to this. And if you have any questions on this, send us a message on Instagram at thespiritualroom Co and let us know. Like, hey, I'd love for you to riff on this topic a little bit more, or I really enjoyed that on the podcast. Could you share more about that? Or better yet, come hang out with us in the spiritual room community and let's really open up the dialogue about whatever it is that you're seeking, because that is what we are in the business for. And that, my friend, is today's episode. We touched on the ego aspect, what it is, how to navigate it, why you have to navigate it, how to discern between the ego and the higher self, how to surrender to the ego. And earlier in the show, we were talking about spiritual evolution, what it is, how to know when you're in it, what kind of things you should be expecting, and how to ground yourself in that evolution. Thanks for listening to the spiritual show with me today. I hope you enjoyed learning about the spiritual evolution and ascension process and the ego aspect of the human. Join us on our next episode where we have our first ever guest on the spiritual show podcast. And this interview is with a fellow spiritual guide and leader who is helping raise consciousness.
[00:33:47] We actually did about four different episodes, four different podcast recordings that I'm going to be sharing with you guys over the next few weeks. And honestly, one is I can't even wait to share them because they're our first interviews. But two, the conversation is a conversation that I've been wanting to have in a few different arenas, including conscious parenting and the dimensions and the struggles that we experience moving into the spiritual journey. And so I cannot wait to share these with you. And one of them is going to be released on the next show as well. Don't forget to click the link in the show notes to join us in the Facebook community, or grab your spot for the ultimate journal experience, which kicks off on February 7. That's all for the episode Beautiful Human. I'll see you in the next one. Thanks for joining us for today's show. If you enjoyed this episode and you'd like to help support the podcast, please share it with others, post about it on social media, or leave a rating and review to catch all the latest from us. You can follow us on Instagram at thespiritualroom Co. And on the blog at www. Dot thespiritualroom blog. Thanks again, and we'll see you next time.
