The Battle Inside Your Mind (And How to Win It)

Within every person there is a battle between the ego and the soul. The ego desires to experience pleasure and to avoid pain. The soul desires to experience joy and fulfillment and to continuously grow and evolve. Their desires are often in conflict.

The ego wants to experience constant pleasure and comfort through things like food, entertainment, drugs, sex, social validation, and other forms of stimulation – and often pursues these things to avoid being with the painful aspects of human life.

The constant pursuit and indulgence of pleasure often has a negative impact on our health, keeps us stuck in habitual patterns, wastes our time and energy, and prevents our personal growth and development – and anyone that walks that path long enough will know first hand how it diminishes our soul.

On the other hand, the soul wants to experience a deeper sense of fulfillment. It wants to experience true joy and happiness, and it desires to experience continuous growth and evolution – which is one of the greatest sources of inner fulfillment.

This often requires us to go outside of our comfort zone, to move through discomfort, to be with our pain, to be honest with ourselves and our emotions, to heal our inner wounds, to learn from the things that challenge us, and to expand our limits beyond what we think is possible or beyond what is familiar and comfortable – all of which are things that the ego typically despises.

This battle between the ego and the soul is ongoing. Day after day it is taking place in the battlefield of our mind. Whether the ego or soul is winning the battle at any given moment is dependent upon one thing: choice.

We choose who we listen to and who we obey. The challenge is, the ego shouts while the soul whispers. So, to hear the soul, we need to quiet the mind, see beyond the noise of the ego, and listen deeply to what is truly present in our hearts.

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh once said “at any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.”

And it is our choice. 🙏

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