Today I invite you to contemplate a composite image. I came across this composite of mine from many years ago as I was exploring my vast collection of images. I think I remember when I took the original image of The Moon. It was a winter evening, when the moon was so clear and shiny that the details of it could be perfectly seen. Of course, as always, I used my longest lens to capture the original image, but when you are thousands of miles away from the object, you are happy with the outcome no matter what. Of course, the beauty of the Moon came through even better in a black and white version, then using a photo editing program I captured as it moves away in the distance. This composite is from 2015.
As we are exploring our inner world, often the ego is too quick to jump in, to remind us that it is in charge of us. Many times, when we try to make a change to our internal world, the ego pipes up and tells us that any change however small will be our downfall. The same ego sometimes makes us feel worthless, or over the moon, or anxious or loved. But no matter how we look at it, the ego tries to be in charge of who we are and what we do every moment of our waking moment.
So why the title fading away? What the ego fears the most is letting go, it fears most of all that when we let go of our preconception, of our limitation, of our shortcomings, of who we have been up until this moment, that it will disappear. The ego has kept us safe and alive for so long in our own delusions of self that just by the mere act of thinking of change, it shouts from the roof top it does not want to fade away. And so…as good little children we listen to the ego and we give up on what it is we need to change our inner world.
What is the message of your ego? How loud does is state its purpose and status?
My ego is shouting loud and clear, you have no idea what you are doing And I hear this voice in my head every day, every moment, every second and have heard this voice, projected within me and outside of me for many years. The other day I was meditating on this very concept of my own beliefs and I realised that often my ego ‘s message is that I am too little, too insignificant, too you, too inexperienced, too this too that, but never has it shown me what it meant to be who I truly am. And for years like most of you I have been listening to its stories, to its diversions because it is easier to appease the ego than fighting it, and telling it, it’s time to go.
This year the conscious choice needs to be yours and yours alone, are you going to continue listening to IT or are you going to take back control?
Are you ready to let the ego fade away in the distance, and be captain once again of your own path?
The ego has good HD resolution of your history, it continues to play the same story over and over again in the cinema of your mind. Are you ready to change the film, you turn on the lights, to change the image from black and white to colour or change the colour to black and white, are you ready to turn up the volume or maybe make it turn itself lower? Are you ready to be back in the director’s seat of your own mind?
Will you let it fade into darkness, so that you emerge in the light?
