3 Things Your Ego Doesn't Want You to Know and Will NEVER Tell You

Aaron Doughty explains three things the ego hides: that your identity is temporary and masks your true spiritual nature, that the ego's only job is survival through resistance and self-sabotage, and that you contain multiple personality facets that shift depending on context. Breaking these patterns starts with observing your thoughts instead of controlling them.
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This video, I'm going to be sharing with you 3 things that your ego does not want you to know and will never tell you. Once you know these 3 things, it can dramatically change your life. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing with you those 3 things that your ego doesn't want you to know. It's things that are a lot of times in the background that unless people become aware of it will continue to run their life over and over and over again. Now the reason this is so important is because many times in life in general, when people are using the law of attraction, when people are intending to create what they want via their goals, what they're doing it from is they're doing it from the point of the identity and the attachment to the ego. Now this isn't inherently bad, but the thing is is when we become too identified with it, What we do is we keep ourselves back from experiencing higher states of consciousness because we think that who we are is that ego. Now, what I'm going to share with you in today's video could be what helps you to create a shift in consciousness, what helps you to shift your level of awareness from things are always happening to me, from the identification with the ego, and to that of a new way of being and a new understanding for who you really are. Now, if you haven't heard me speak of this kind of idea already, what I've been doing lately is I've been moving more into understanding how our thoughts work, how we work with that of consciousness, and what I'm actually creating right now is a whole step-by-step program called the Shift Experience. The Shift Experience is going to be something unlike anything you have ever seen before. It's going to help you to move from that of things happening to you, from identification to the ego, to that of a new way of being, of being free from all the social conditioning and really creating a transformation within your own level of consciousness. This is something that I experienced back in 2012. This isn't necessarily enlightenment, but this is definitely a big jump in consciousness where you go from feeling the lesser emotions, the lesser vibrational states of consciousness, to the higher ones. So this is something I'm creating called the Shift Experience, and it's going to be coming live here within the next few months. If you want to sign up for updates, you'll see a link in the top of the description box below, and it's also going to be something I travel the world doing seminars and workshops on. So that's there for you as well. So when it comes to the ego, let's first off understand that the ego is not something that was meant to— when we decided to have a life on earth wasn't something that we necessarily were meant to be completely identified with. Now, part of the purpose of life, one of the purposes of life is to understand and to wake up to who we really are. And the reason this is, is because when we come to earth, the thing is, is we forget who we really are. We are in actuality unconditional love and bliss. We are higher states consciousness and we are immortal spiritual beings living very temporary human experiences, and in most places or in many other places in the galaxy, I believe that we actually remember, we retain that memory of who we are. But when we come to Earth, Earth is a unique kind of game. When you would come to Earth, we forget who we are because one of the purposes of life is to remember who we are, to literally remember, to reconnect to who we are and to have that kind of connection because it's a very empowering feeling. In 2012, when I went through the experience, it totally transformed my own life because then I realized that there is so much more than I probably thought that there was. I was always trying to interpret things through past experience. I remember being identified with things that happened in my past. I was identified with the past experience. I was identified with the labels that I had, the definitions that I had. I thought I had, uh, I always identified with having ADHD. And I thought the only way to cure that was to take Adderall. I thought that the only thing, and I had a lot of painful past memories of my childhood and I thought that I wasn't worthy. These were all something that as I began to shift my level of consciousness, I became aware of the real purpose of those and then I was able to transmute them and it was through understanding the separation or the shift from the ego's perspective to that of a higher level of consciousness. So the first thing that your ego doesn't want you to know and will never tell you is that you, the you that you are, is not the ego. It is your avatar self in life right now, which you are experiencing even as you hear me speak right now. You may be having thoughts in your mind like, what does this all mean? What is going on right now? Every single thing that you hear is a tape. It is an autopilot. It is a repetition. It is something that continues to run itself out over and over and over again. And in actuality, this body is an avatar. If you've seen the movie Avatar, you'll know that the guy is able to project himself in a way or connect and go into this kind of like this sleep machine and then project himself somewhere else. And that is his body as his avatar self. Well, the only difference between that and actuality is that in higher dimensions we're doing that right now. We are asleep pretending that this is who we are. We forget that that's who we really are, that we are unconditional love and bliss, that we exist in higher states of consciousness. And what happens is we go around and we end up identifying with this life experience. We say, this is who I am. These 5 senses that I interpret reality through. This is what's real. You see, the ego is always identified with what it thinks is real and what your ego doesn't want you to know is that actuality, that's not who you are. That's the interpretation of reality is what you experienced through your senses, but in actuality, this is nothing but an avatar. This is something that we are creating. What science is showing us is that it's highly probable we live in a form of simulation. Now when you say that, some people get afraid. They're like, simulation? What do you mean? I live in a computer. It's a computer is a metaphor for it. The idea is more like the movie The Matrix, and not that that's going to make you feel any better about it, but understand you are unconditional love and bliss. You exist now. You will always exist, so there's nothing to worry about. It's just that right now you might be having an experience through the 5 senses of your avatar. The avatar slash the ego. But what happens is people walk around, they identify with the senses. Everything in society as well entrenches people into their senses. They're watching the news, they get triggered into lower emotions. Why do you think every single thing that you see on the news almost is of a negative, lower vibrational state? It puts you into anger, fear, guilt, shame, all of these lower emotions. Have you ever really watched the news or anything and then felt an increase in your vibration, an increase in how you feel? Most likely not. And the reason this is, is because these lower states of consciousness keep us identified with the ego self, not understanding that we are actually immortal spiritual beings living temporary human experiences. Now, the key to this is not to become mad at the government or mad at all the, the way that things are. Because that only creates even more of an identity. It creates more of resistance to what is. The key is to acknowledge it, but then to move past it, to understand that this is one layer of reality anyways. But what you begin to do is you begin to take your power back when you move from thinking that all you are is the avatar, or you are is this, is this physical self that's interpreting reality through the five senses, and you start to realize that you are so much more than that. That's when there is a shift in consciousness that begins to take place, and that's something that I experienced because I've realized through just simply observing my thoughts that my thoughts are just on autopilot. Science has shown this. Over 90% of what we think day to day is the same thoughts, the same emotions. We do the same actions. Therefore, we are constantly being the same person day in and day out, but that person It's on autopilot. So the thing is, is everything is at an effect. Everyone is always at the effect. It's like things are happening to me, things are happening to me, reacting, stimulus, stimulus, stimulus, response, stimulus, response, stimulus, response. The key is being aware that the ego self is not just who we are. When you're able to shift into this level of awareness, you realize that you can then observe the ego. You can observe the thoughts. I went through a shift when I learned how to observe my thoughts instead, not control them, because originally it was like, oh, I got to control my thoughts and I create resistance because I'm like, nope, can't think negative thoughts. It was also shortly after I learned about the law of attraction and I was like, oh, thoughts create my reality. Can't think negative thoughts, can't think negative thoughts, I would cause resistance. But then what I did is I learned how to observe them. Simply, they come into my mind, observe them, they go out instead of having to cut them, come in and then fight them. And then they just end up staying there anyways. So that's one thing that your ego doesn't want you to know because your ego wants to identify as a supreme being, as the one that does everything, when in actuality you are so much more than the ego. The ego is just your avatar in the reality. You— it'd be like playing a Sims game. You're playing a Sims game and you're identifying with just your Sim character. I go to work every day. I come home, kiss the wife, have the 2.5 kids and the dog, whatever you're doing in The Sims game and saying, this is who I am, this is who I am. In actuality, you are so much more than that. The second thing that your ego doesn't want you to know and won't tell you is that your ego just wants to survive. You may say, I want to be successful, I want to do this. All of this stuff that we want to do and all your ego wants to do is to keep you to survive. The ego is a survival mechanism. So sometimes you might be wanting to go into part of you. You may feel this split. You may want to go into experience more. Maybe your soul, who you are at a deeper level, wants to experience more in life, but there's these blocks that come up. There's these plateaus that come up. And these plateaus simply come from the ego wanting to survive. And you can feel it too because the ego will sometimes sabotage you. You'll, you'll find that you need to go do something or something you're gonna do and then all of a sudden something happens. Maybe your body starts to like shut down and you're like, you feel like you're not feeling good all of a sudden because of something that you know is going to be a little bit scary. So the key to this is understanding what your ego is. One, your ego is the avatar. Two, your ego just wants to survive. So it's not like what you want to do is you don't want to fight your ego. I hear this sometimes, people like, the ego is the enemy, the ego is the enemy, the ego. And even at me right now, as I'm showing you these 3 things that the ego doesn't want you to know and won't tell you, it's not that the ego is bad. It's just about being aware. This isn't about good or bad. Good or bad is being caught up in duality and polarity. It's does this work or does this not work? Is this efficient or is this not efficient? It is efficient. The more that you understand your ego and that your ego is just trying to survive is the more that you can break out of that pattern because when you become aware of that, then you can see the patterns. You'd be like, well, I went to work the other day and I wanted to do this, but then this happened, or then I felt scared to do this. There's been many times where I've been afraid of doing something, but I stepped up and I did it anyways. And even though I had to push through the uncomfortableness of the ego, it ended up becoming stronger outside of it anyways. Because here's the thing, we have a self-image, the way that we see ourselves, the way we see our avatar self. We will always do everything we can to stay within this bubble, to be consistent to the way that we define ourselves. Now, in order to go beyond that, we have to be aware that wherever we are is a current limitation. Even if you believe that you can be making like even $1 million a month or something, That's still a limitation because then there is still that limit of only $1 million a month. But you see, the ego always wants more. The ego wants more. But the thing is, is when you're looking outside for validation or you're looking for things on the outside to change, saying when those things on the outside change, then I can be happy. It's an externalization of power. It's a hamster wheel. We will always be on this hamster wheel, but the idea is that everything is a limitation when we see it in the form of the self-image, how we see ourselves. But the key is not to, to taper on a new self-image to say, okay, right now I see myself as being able to make this much per month. I need to see myself make a little bit more per month. Instead, just let go of the limitation and then be. Move from having to doing to being. That's the secret of enlightenment. That's the secret. What's the difference between an enlightened person to an unenlightened person? An enlightened person is simply saying yes to the present moment. An enlightened person understands the truth that this is a form of reality that is very temporary, knowing that everything is the way it is and that even though the ego self is that stimulus response, stimulus response, the enlightened person may be at stimulus response, stimulus response. The difference is the enlightened person allows the moment to be. The ego, the avatar, is always trying to be somewhere else. You ever notice that the ego always wants to be somewhere else? I'm over here right now filming the video. It's like, no, I want to be over there. The ego always wants to externalize, always wants to think something else. The ego's in the shower thinking about what it's going to do tomorrow. The ego's in the gym thinking about what it's going to eat when it gets home. The eating, when he gets home, the ego's thinking about what it has to do in like 20 minutes after that. The ego is always externalizing its own power. So the key is to be aware of that and to move from doing to having to simply being, being present to the moment. Shift into that level of awareness. Now the third thing that your ego will not tell you and doesn't want you to know is that you actually have multiple personalities within you. Now this sounds like a scary idea, but think about it. Think about just simply this. When you're in different states of being, you have different levels of a personality. You have a different way that you define yourself. Think about— define personality like this as well. This is an easier way to understand personality. Personality is a combination of what you think, how you feel, and what you do. Now there's different parts of your day, there's different parts in different states that trigger you into certain different ways of being. It's different parts of your personality. Doesn't mean that they're not all you, but they're all different faces, different facets, like a crystal. There's different facets of a crystal. They're different facets of your own ego because many times you say, I have one ego. The ego is like the buffer in between physical reality and non-physical reality is what we use to interpret our reality through the five senses. However, there's a powerful shift that happens when we become aware there's different states of being that we're in that are different emotions. Maybe when you get out of the gym, when you— maybe when you go to the gym, you have a certain personality, a certain way that people respond to you when you're there. I know when I go to the gym, there's a certain focus I have. There's a certain way that I am becoming more present with my body. I'm pushing outside of my limits of what my body can do. And as I do that, there's a certain way that I am. I feel in a certain way, and then afterwards I feel a certain emotion. Now there's certain times when I go do something else and something happens and I identify with what's happening or I interpret it in a certain way and based on that interpretation, I then get a certain type of effect in life and that's a different facet of my personality. Now there's people that I'm around, I have a completely different way of being because I'm just being, I'm just having fun. Maybe I'm just letting loose. It depends on what I'm engaged with in life. So for example, there's a business version of me that's focused on my business. That's a certain part of my personality. Then last night I was at somebody's houses because there was that Conor McGregor-Khabib fight thing going on. And what I do is we're there, we're just having a good time. I'm the business Aaron. The business version of me is kind of put on autopilot and I'm just having a good time. And then I'm there and then someone might come up to me and ask me about business or ask for my advice. And then guess what? The business version of me comes up and then what happens is I go somewhere else. And maybe someone's having trouble with relationships, so the advice part of me comes out when it comes to life advice. Do you see what I mean? There's different facets of who we are, and then I'm around someone else, maybe around a family member, and a very compassionate side of me comes out. You see, so it's something that a lot of people probably won't admit, but we all have different facets of our own personality that is also many times dictated by our state of being. There's been times when I'm in an amazing state of being and nothing can bring me down and there's times when I'm in a lesser state of being where things affect me more, but it's about being aware of these different facets of your personality and disidentifying with them, knowing that there are just certain perspectives. A lot of times those perspectives are in, are embedded within that of the state of being. So it's about being aware. Everything I'm sharing with you right now that you are interpreting, that you are soaking in that you are saying to yourself, what does it mean? Means nothing. Everything I said is meaningless and everything in life in a way only has meaning that we put into it. When we become aware of that and we become aware that the way reality has been projected to us is completely different than the way reality actually is and that there's never going to be an agreed upon reality anyways because everyone has a different perspective. We can then start to take our power back and then we realize reality is so much more flexible than before. We just have stories that tell ourselves. We tell ourselves these stories about the way reality is. We keep this hamster wheel going and the shift experience that I'm creating right now is an opportunity to get off the hamster wheel and to become present and to understand that not only can you get off the hamster wheel, but you can go outside of the cage. You go outside of the cage and you can go explore, but the belief system we have is the cage and the autopilot mind and the ego is the hamster wheel. And as long as you identify with yourself right now and everything that you think is true through your 5 senses is the— as long as you're going to be kept inside that hamster wheel, inside that cage. And what I'm encouraging you to do is to simply break out of it. To unleash the power of consciousness, not of just your mind, because you are not just your mind. You are even beyond that. So remember, these are 3 things that your ego won't tell you, doesn't want you to know. That is simply that your ego is your avatar in this physical experience. You are unconditional love and bliss. That secondly, your ego is just wired to survive. That is it. Not to thrive, just to survive. And the key is to observe that, to observe the survival mode. And then thirdly, to simply know that there's different facets of your personality. There's different versions of you. You can start to integrate them all, allow them to be, become aware of them because in the light of awareness is where all the power is. From this point going forward, you are forever changed because you understand these ideas. It has now planted a seed. Even if you think that in 2 or 3 weeks you forget about this video, you will always know from this point going forward that your ego is not just who you are and that there is this shift in awareness you can have and that you can get off the hamster wheel. You can go outside of the cage and you can understand that you can explore the world in a completely new way because that's what you have available to you. That's what you have when you stop reacting to life and you start engaging with life. When you stop thinking and projecting yourself to a future moment and you start being present to the moment. Enlightenment is not something you attain, it is something you realize and you realize it by letting go of things that don't serve, by letting go of the past and by understanding the truth. And that truth is within you right now and that's what you begin to tap into. So if you want for updates on the shift experience and when it comes live, Go ahead and you'll see the link in the top of the description box. I also will be doing more live Q&As on Instagram, so if you're following me on Instagram yet, you can follow me on Instagram as well. I also post daily content there. And other than that, I hope you enjoyed this video. Feel free to like this video if you liked it, subscribe if you haven't already, hit the little notification gear next to the subscribe button so that you could see the daily vids that I do. And other than that, as always, peace, much love, and namaste.










