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Understanding Survival - Part 2

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

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The Ego Is Absolutely Relentless

Survival is so important that you, the ego, cannot be trusted with it. Most of your survival functions are automatic because it's too important to entrust to your conscious mind. So for example, your heart beat. If your heart stops beating for even a minute, youre ging to be dead. It's all done auto ally for you. Likewise, most of your emotions work this way. They're acting you. This is how the body gets done. What needs to be done is by playing you. You're not playing it. It's playing you like a piano with these emotional keys and chords that it strikes every day to get you to do what it needs to do

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