Dr. Ray Catania argues that most people live trapped in ego, which is just inherited beliefs and mental noise. Real freedom comes from pausing to access your deeper awareness instead, a shift he says can transform your life.
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But it's not until you break free from the egoic mind and go to your awareness. Your awareness is your highest level of consciousness, uh, according to Eckhart Tolle, and I believe this as well. Your awareness is your higher self. It's connected to the collective. Now, every time we make a decision, we make it from one of those two places. It either comes from the ego or it comes from your awareness. Most people go to the ego because that's all we know. That's that chitter chatter. It's always there. It's abundant. And we believe that that ego is us. It's not. It can't be you. So when you start accepting the fact that the ego are other people's beliefs that were given to you, and you realize that the awareness is the real you. And if you can just pause for a second and let the conscious mind catch up, You can change your life.