Are You Human or Just an Animal? – Being Dad with Phil Lower, September 16, 2022

Biologist define a living thing as “an entity that makes autonomous decisions.”

Autonomous means automatic but determinative. In other words, you make a decision for life automatically and intentionally.

But, what if you could be put into a sleep and kicked into autopilot at will?

What if that meant you could be manipulated into buying things, believing lies, or voting in a particular way?

What if there was only one thing that separated you from Koko the Gorilla and that was your Soul?

What am I talking about? In Psychology it’s called your Observing Ego.

Observing Ego is what gives you the ability to exercise Free Will.

Let me give you an example. Why is Porn so addictive to people? Because they are imagining themselves being in the situation shown in the video.

What if you could take that skill and develop it to watch your reactions to things, and then to find the necessary resources in your environment to solve a problem, while you’re still in the problem?

Remember now an argument you were in and ask yourself several questions.
How did it make you feel?
How much of it was due to a misunderstanding?
What might you have said differently to resolve the fight sooner?
What benefits could have come from resolving the fight sooner?
What could you do in the future to clarify things before they become an argument?
Are there any materials or resources you could study, watch, or listen to so you can grow more skillful in dealing with that situation?

Now Observing Ego is simply the ability to ask these questions at the same time you are in the situation and bring it to a resolution sooner and more safely.

It cannot be used in the Past or the Future. It can only be used right now in the current situation.

When you watch a horror movie, a comedy, or a romantic comedy, it’s the same thing. You are in the movie, right now.

Imagine your lens is watching your personal boundary, your emotional energy, your data processing intellect, and your decision making. What is it seeing? That is your Observing Ego.

Today I want you to start observing yourself and continue practicing it. The better you become at it, the more powerful you will become.

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