Ego Insurgents are the super-villians of our minds. They blind us to the truth about who we really are. When you start to learn about which Ego Insurgents have splintered your mind from childhood you can begin to dissolve the power of their egoic defences that wreak havoc on our personalities. Once your Ego Insurgents are discovered, healed and then transformed you begin to awaken. You awaken dormant faculties and talents within yourself that you may never knew existed. We can heal our personality disorders, remove our masks and profoundly heal ourselves from all that once may have held us back from our true potential.
DEFEATING THE SUPER VILLAINS
Neurologically our limbic systems are activated and actual, palpable chemical changes occur in your cells, in the body and the mind. Emotions are thrown into a storm. Homeostasis is all but lost. Ego insurgents demand answers from life. They use the weapons of control, blaming and denial to stay alive. This is how the attitudes, moods, traits and personalities become disordered. Personality disorders, depression and the like are usually created over long periods of time. By the time we wake up to the fact that we suffer any of these conditions we can be drowning metaphorically in the dark seas of the soul’s dark night. Feeling like we are trapped just below the surface of a raging sea, battling to breathe underwater.
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival” Aristotle
Ego Insurgents were created by your minds’ ego defence mechanisms from birth. Master Insurgents are the 3 major defensive systems we have in our heads. These are the 3 main categories of your 10X Master insurgents of personality. They are Distrust. Fear. Drama. Once you become aware of these Master insurgents that run on fight, flight and freeze, you will be able to instantly see them at play in yourself and then in others. This skill will give you a competitive edge like no other and will help you to be on top of your game in all of life’s situations. Wisdom is power. A far better and valuable asset than money or material things. Your 10X ego insurgents are developed to defend your persona with the impenetrability of a Sherman tank. They are not you. They are the minds outdated operating system.
Your ego insurgents were so important that they kept you alive all this time. They are hard wired into our brains to ensure we survive the perceived chaos of life, growing up and finding our way in life. The ego insurgents are the container for our early emotions, thoughts and behaviours. When we are older and more capable we no longer need them to protect us. They can easily become just like the overprotective parent – smothering all uncertainty as it appears, driving fear into our hearts instead of away from it.
They steer our minds and souls away from anything that appears remotely unsafe. This works for children, but not for those who have matured into purpose seekers and world changers. If we don’t even know these insurgents have created these false maps we will be left feeling empty, lost and devoid of direction. An example of one of the 10 X ego insurgents is The Judge Insurgent. Developed in childhood. It is a supercritical voice inside your head, that keeps you away from gratitude and in judging mode, where you can never quite rest. It reminds you how you are never doing it right. Through negative reinforcement your Judge Insurgent will tell you that it is not good enough and that you are not good enough. It pushed you to always do better, using the art form of finger pointing, ridicule and blame it learned from parents and teachers to get you what it thinks you want. This internal critic is highly un-empathic and is strongly rooted in the physiological and our most basal needs for safety, food and shelter.
Your 3 Master Ego Insurgents
It is important to Know Thyself. Equally important is to know thy enemy. The enemies and the self we speak of today are the personas or masks we have created to become who we are today. These personas have developed ten prominent ways to protect you. These ten dominant protectors are your Ego insurgents 10X, they can be divided into three main Insurgent categories. These we call your 3 Master Insurgents. You need to know your true personality before you can transcend it, personality disorders and traits and all. These three categories simplify it all into three areas with a few The Power of Contemplative Intelligence (CQ) Page 38 ego-insurgents that fit each category. In this way you will be able to not only know by becoming aware of and then defeating these person-villains we call insurgents.
Fear Distrust Drama
These 3 Master Insurgents have been protecting you all your life. They are like the guardians of your mind’s galaxy. They have been around so long that they seem natural to you. As a teenager they also blossomed with a growth spurt as they helped you navigate the external world. You hear their voices talking to you all day long and have become so accustomed to these internal tenants that you’ve forgotten they are renting space inside your head.
Your 10X Ego Insurgents
If you can become aware of these ten little personas that cause big trouble for most people you can really turn things around fast! If your 10X ego insurgents are not kept in check, you will be able to accept them and then integrate them. You will be able to get them to work for you and not against you. Like anger they can be turned into a motivational tool to tell us that things are happening and that we need to take higher, new action, rather than the lower actions we used to take when we were signalled to do so. Let’s identify the ten ego-insurgents you need to become aware of now.
Your 10X ego-insurgents are developed to defend your persona with the impenetrability of a Sherman tank. They are not you. They are the minds outdated operating system. Your ego-insurgents were so important that they kept you alive all this time. They are hard wired into our brains to ensure we survive the perceived chaos of life, growing up and finding our way in life. The ego insurgents are the container for our early emotions, thoughts and behaviours. When we are older and more capable we no longer need them to protect us. They can easily become just like the overprotective parent – smothering all uncertainty as it appears, driving fear into our hearts instead of away from it. They steer our minds and souls away from anything that appears remotely unsafe.
This works for children, but not for those who have matured into purpose seekers and world changers. If we don’t even know these insurgents have created these false maps we will be left feeling empty, lost and devoid of direction. An example of one of the 10 X insurgents is The Judge Insurgent. Developed in childhood. It is a supercritical voice inside your head, that keeps you away from gratitude and in judging mode, where you can never quite rest. It reminds you how you are never doing it right.
What you really need to know about your Ego Insurgents?
What you really need to know about your Ego Insurgents is that they exist. We walk around blind with issue to issue and from discontentment to hopelessness. We need to be aware that it takes as little as 90 days to change a lifestyle when we work neurologically with a heightened awareness of our defences, projections and masks. When we discover these Ego Insurgents exist, we are able to defeat them. If we are unaware of their existence subconsciously then we can walk around suffering the same negative consequences in our careers, relationships and even our spirituality over and over again. With the Power of your own Contemplative Intelligence you are able to go beyond your persona with relative ease and discover your sacred self within, a side of the self that we kind of know is there from childhood. However as we become blinded by these ego insurgents, we start to believe the stories the mind is running. We follow the narrative blindly and become stuck, lost, burnout out and afraid. Once we embark on a journey of self discovery beyond the personality we rise up to life and live authentically and harmoniously with life itself.
When you come to understand your ego-insurgents properly through contemplation practice and as you get to know they enemy, your life will begin to transform as you slowly free yourself from the traps of a childhood past. For more information on your ego insurgents start our therapeutic course on developing the Power of your contemplative Intelligence. Read the book as well and heal your life once and for all.
Return to your Sacred Self
Your Sacred Self is your Highest Self which is at odds with your Self concept and ego. Until you do the work and awaken to a side of you that is often called your Higher-Self, your spiritual-Self, your authentic or true self the ego will rule the roost as it did from childhood. A midlife crisis styled event occurs when your self concept starts to fall apart. Albeit, in order for you to truly transcend yourself and find meaning and purpose in life.
We awaken to a sacred Self within us that finally lets us arrive in life and live from a place of peace, joy and fulfilment. A sacred place where the ego defences are not invited. In fact, the ego normally only becomes aware of the sacred self much later in life. It surfaces when our childhood defences no longer serve us quite as well as they used to. Sacred self comes calling like a thief in the night to rip the persona’s mask from you to show its authentic features to the world. When the ego-insurgents pick up arms in retaliation to this uninvited occupation an existential crisis or war within is usually one of the first signs that the change from masked to unveiled is underway.
The 10 Pathways back to Sacred self are accessed when the personality’s ego insurgents are removed. They are :
- Empathy
- Wisdom
- Self Regulation
- Gratitude
- Love
- Courage
- Presence
- Surrender
- Connection
- Resilience
Creating a Paradigm Shift
The Paradigm Process offers you a 10 step program to heal your life. Backed by scientific evidence we have accumulated from real case studies since 2012, we have developed a way through whatever holds you back. How we found it was profoundly interesting and was the breakthrough we needed for seekers – people looking to actualise their full potential. We jumped into psychology, dipped into philosophy and then studied all the religions around the world. We began to understand how the brain controls the body and how emotions, memory, imagination and potential are all linked.
We then started applying and testing all the principles of healing and life transformation that we discovered and then started applying what worked and began removing what didn’t seem to help cause effective change. The Paradigm Process helped us at our inpatient treatment centre double the speed of healing in the people we were helping. People from all over the world, suffering all sorts of different emotional and psychological and sometimes physical problems took part. What we found through the work and research was incredible.
