The Ego Protects Us From Threat

Ego protection, that old ego reaction of trying to keep you safe by being hypervigilant has no life in the present moment. The ego only has life in the past in your past traumas when it takes you in there or in your future perceptions and projections of worries. That's why the ego wants to keep you in the past. And if the familiar is threat, then it just keeps you in familiar threat as well. If we don't see threat, we're going to get blindsided. But we really need to make that conscious choice to start looking for safety.