Stop identifying with your ego & MBTI Emotional Stacks

I’m John Glanvill, author of The Calmness in Mind Process for Overcoming Anxiety, OCD and Depression.

In this video, we will explore how we can rise above identification with our ego – the thought that the voice in our head is actually us and that it knows what is best for us.

Because as you are so very aware – its thoughts are so often based in fear, doubt and control, which tend to pull you back from life – when of course, we are looking to step into the full richness of life in all of its expressions!

I trust you are starting to see – that for most of our life we were being run unconsciously by our ego, our protective personality, our programming, our domestication, our mind, our little eight-year-old or whatever label you feel comfortable using to name the collective conditioning of your identity by those external to you – who tried to influence you into becoming what they thought was best for you.

And remember, as I keep saying, to release yourself from anxiety or OCD, you need to become a new person – rather than trying harder to be the same person.

Now, we are getting deeper into the course – we are going to start having more conversations that are very likely going to push a few emotional buttons – we will be exploring perspectives that have always been clearly visible yet hidden in plain sight.

And one of these is the role schooling has played in the programming of our brains and the development of our ego, our sense of self and our identity.

I have been doing a lot of research recently about how (what we might call the modern-day education system) came into being, why it happened, and importantly, what were the objectives of the financial backers at that time of introduction?

And it seems to have begun over two hundred years ago during the time of the industrial revolution, where Industrialists – needed people to operate all the machines, populate the factories, grow the food, mine the resources, transport the goods, then to sell and support all those products.

Not only did they need a vast quantity of people, but they also required those people to be able to follow orders, do as they were told (rather than think for themselves), to be respectful of authority, be agreeable, to see being dependant on an employer or the government as normal (or to be expected).

Therefore via the introduction of factory schools – which later became government-run schools, there evolved a system designed to educate (or shall we say indoctrinate) little worker drones, who could pop out of the system, with the appropriate, limited mindset and restricted critical thinking.

Because, if you think about it, schools don’t teach thinking outside of the box, how money works, they don’t talk about entrepreneurship, how to question authority, they don’t teach confidence or self-esteem, or how to stand up for yourself, or how to question (or develop) your own belief systems – they tend to program belief systems into you.

Now I’m not trying to be anti-government or conspiratorial – this did happen and still continues to this day – this is a fact!

If you don’t believe me, here is a quote from Joel Mokyr, a Northwestern University economist of that time.

“Much of this education, however, was not technical in nature but social and moral. Workers who had always spent their working days in a domestic setting, had to be taught to follow orders, to respect the space and property rights of others, be punctual, docile, and sober. The early industrial capitalists spent a great deal of effort and time in the social conditioning of their labour force, especially in Sunday schools which were designed to inculcate middle-class values and attitude, so as to make the workers more susceptible to the incentives; that the factory needed.”

This education system has hardly changed to this day; it has just become more effective at producing good little citizens who do as they are told, regardless of how they feel (or what they think) on the inside.

Compliant citizens who look to the government, science and authority to tell them what to do and how to do it.

But many people are waking up to the realisation that just maybe there are other ways to live, and this cognitive dissonance between the person’s beliefs and behaviours can often be felt as anxiety.

But if we flick back to before schooling was introduced – before the industrial revolution, before capitalism – workers were farmers or trade-specific artisans, who worked out of their homes, set their own hours, came up with clever solutions to whatever problem arose before them, they did what they loved doing and had developed the appropriate personality that allowed them to do it from their families and peers, rather than the state.

And this is really funny to me – as it seems the population of the world is slowly waking up to the fact that they want to go back to that (more natural way of being), whilst governments and corporations are trying harder (and more forcibly) to herd them to continue down the same old worn put paths of consumerism – which is causing much anxiety, depression and exhaustion.

At least once a week, somebody says to me, “John, this stuff you are teaching – it should be taught in schools!”

And I agree with them; if we did, people would be happier, more confident, they would be following their dreams, standing up for what they believe in – they would be creative and independent – probably they would have less anxiety and stress.

But how would that help any government or corporation – if they had a workforce that thought for themselves and put their own needs first?

Twenty years ago, I thought people who homeschooled their children were hippies or radicles – but these days (knowing what I know now), if I could go back in time – I would very seriously consider homeschooling my children – or at least to have a serious plan to teach appropriate life skills, and emotional self- mastery, to balance out what the education system was teaching (or not teaching) my children.

Now, remember, this course is about removing anxiety, OCD and depression – and, to do this effectively, we must understand that anxiety comes from fear, and fear comes from internal belief conflicts and brain/body conditioning.

So, we need to ask ourselves – are our beliefs, actually OUR BELIEFS? Or were we conditioned to have a set of beliefs that we think are our own – but are not – and does, by clinging to them, cause us internal conflict?

Like believing working for the government will offer job security and is good – whilst being self-employed will be unstable and volatile, which is bad.

When the truth may be totally different – most self-employed people I know, love the freedom of working for themselves and could never go back to being employed and told what to do.

Are our beliefs serving us well? Certainly, if calmness and happiness are the new goals in our life rather than following rules, being nice and looking for security – which were likely programmed into us from school or from our parents who also got programmed via school.

So, that is just one example of how our mind, our ego or our little eight-year-old was conditioned.

Let me drill down deeper – and as ever, keep an open mind; let’s try to put facts and science to one side for a while (not to dismiss them), but to ask, from which perspective (or in which context) is that fact relevant, or who paid for that scientific research? Or what scientific research may be hidden from us?

What if science had already found really cool things but was hiding them? Because if they were known, whole industries would become redundant, like if a person invented a way for energy to be harnessed for free.

There would be thousands of corporations and governments that would go out of business – if fuel became free – So, what would the funders of that science do with that information?

What if our deep dependency on science was (in some small part) programmed into us during our ‘factory schooling’ – Where we were trained to just ‘blindly trust’ the science?

When the really important stuff like happiness, love, creativity, connection, family, friendships, fun, joy playfulness, identity, personality, intimacy – these are totally unscientific and unprovable – but, these are the things that anxious and depressed people want – but are looking towards science to give it to them, but science is hardly researching these things as nobody is prepared to fund it – and nobody makes money from you just being happy for no reason!

Just take this course, I think it is pretty sensible, quite logical, reasonably effective, certainly more effective than what mainstream medicine is providing, yet I am being de-platformed from social media because my work is not in line with that of the scientists.

Don’t get me wrong, I love science; however, I split it into two realms – that which is linear so can be proved – like; a this causes a that – therefore, it is repeatable and true.

And that which is unprovable, but may still be true – and therefore, no less scientific, but science hasn’t evolved yet to the place where it can measure that non-linear experience.

We can’t prove there is a God, yet many scientists believe in God, we can’t prove that love exists, yet people will give up their lives for love.

Scientifically measuring atoms is a provable objective experience, yet measuring love is a subjective and unprovable experience – but no less real, and certainly very desired, which is also an emotion, therefore unscientific because it is not repeatable – emotions are very fluid.

So, let’s not get caught up in all those perspectives and stories; let’s keep an open mind and use sensible models to create new belief systems within us – that may lead us into more emotional calmness.

OK, let’s get back on track – the title of this video is; rising above identification with our ego. It’s not about getting rid of the ego; it’s about better understanding it and befriending it rather than fighting with it.

And to do this, I would like to reference Dr David R Hawkins, whose work has changed my life enormously and give my interpretation of his version of how he describes the ego.

And once again, I am taking you down the path of realisation that enabled me to free myself, from myself – to calmness and just the OKness, of discovering that what is happening right now is what’s happening right now (whether my ego likes it or not) and that my sense of self is not my ego, I am the Observer of that ego – or what you may call conscious awareness – which is separate from the body although deeply entwined with it as I discussed in video thirteen.

And which action, in this moment, is the best one for my wellbeing regardless of what my conditioned mind and body are trying to tell me – because that is just the ego, the protective personality, my little eight year old – trying to keep me safe.

So, Hawkins says that the best way to see the ego is as the residual security system from the animal (our pet, our little horsey), which evolved over millennia and whose memories and learned patterns of security were passed down through our DNA.

He explains it by saying we started off as simple cells who pulled nutrients in through our cell walls, then (as we evolved) we developed to have a mouth, so it was easier to access nutrients, then, perhaps we developed feelers to grab and guide things towards us (or to protect us) then we developed eyes to see food, a stomach to process it better, then a brain so we can outwit other creatures.

At each moment for our survival, we were continuously sampling everything; sensing, tasting, watching, examining – selfishly, violently and cunningly, choosing (in any moment) that which was life-enhancing and avoiding that which was life-limiting.

It worked pretty well – as we are still here all these millions of years later.

What he implies is; our cells intrinsically have knowledge from the whole of evolution to be able to discern what is life-giving and what is life-limiting – like when we grab some milk from the fridge and sniff it, and our cells give us the feedback – no way man, that seems off.

Our ego is the residual animal safety system, watching, sampling and second- guessing what is best for us in any moment. It uses anxiety to get our attention to warn us of what it thinks are dangerous situations, like being rejected, failing or looking stupid.

The ego arose as a survival mechanism in the animal world, it then became refined by the intellect. So, the intellect evolved to be the instrument of animal instinct.

The ego is still up to the same old tricks it ever was, it just became more sophisticated in the ways it tries to make you feel safe, in control or top dog, like what car you drive, what clothes you wear and what job you have.

So the intellect has merely become the servant of the animal and expresses itself in more and more sophisticated ways.

And if you can see that the ego is no different from the animal, and its motivations are no different from the animal, carnal, selfish, survival, violent – then you can stop feeling guilty about those internal animal thoughts and desires – and stop making it wrong.

The ego is just the remnant of the animal within – responding to biological drives at the price of a more evolved human type of love.

To move above anxiety – is to accept the bodies innate intelligence, then rise above our animal instincts.

This course is attempting to teach you how to transcend dominance of the animal drives – it doesn’t mean you don’t have the old animal drives… But it means you won’t be dominated and run by them.

You could call this the growth of conscious awareness from the animal to the advanced human.

Becoming overwhelmed with anxiety to the extent you can’t think straight or lose emotional control – suggests that the animal within has dominated your faculties in that moment – which is fine, but of course, what we are learning to do is interrupt, override and reprogram those responses.

Back when I had my OCD and anxiety (and before I knew all this) my sense of self was identified with the animal’s ego – which meant that if I had horrific intrusive thoughts or lost emotional control – I felt that I was a bad person – and that to become a good person or a successful person I had to be able to overcome these limitations – and because I couldn’t I was a failure.

Looking back on this I can see what a ridiculous rut I was in and how that was a battle I could never win – no matter how hard I tried.

Now, here I am these days – a totally different person – where my more advanced human Observer says, “Hmm, interesting the old animal ego is running an instinctual biological program… But I don’t need to respond to that or let it define me in any way.”

I can watch it come and go, and yes, the body may have an emotional reaction, and yes the mind may offer a crazy thought – but they are not my problem anymore – and I can choose what action to take in this moment that will suit the advanced humans needs rather than the animal in that moment.

Many people who can’t control their animal emotions end up in prison through acts of violence or murder – they say things like, “It just happened” or “I don’t even remember doing it!”

If you were in prison and you challenged such a person, perhaps pushed them a little, you’d probably get a punch in the face – their (ego) their animal would bite back, defend itself – I guess (evolutionarily speaking), this is what we are programmed to do.

But as our species is developing (in the context of living as a human, rather than an animal), that animal response, to punch a person – will actually cause him more pain through solitary confinement or some other punishment.

So this is what I mean by saying the animal ego thinks like an eight-year-old.

If we compare this to a special forces soldier – they have been trained to recognise the animal’s ego is being triggered, but to ignore it, to keep a cool head, to minimise the release of stress chemicals.

This way – they can make sensible decisions in that moment and not be hijacked by the body’s fear responses.

Hawkins advises that we should be aware of our animal ego and to consider its inputs – but not identify with them.

The animal ego, the eight-year-old responses are limited by content rather than the more advanced human options that reside above the ego (as the Observer), which can factor in perspective and context (as well as content.)

For example, an anxiety programmed ego says, “those germs will make you sick, so move away”, whereas the advanced Observer considers, “through exposure, my immunity will be enhanced, and therefore it’s better for survival in the long run, so move towards.”

I never once tried to avoid catching Covid as I know that through having it will develop my natural immunity. But in my defence, I am fit and healthy; if I were over eighty or had other illnesses, I would try to avoid it – can you see every situation has context and perspective, as well as context.

The ego says, don’t ask her out because you will be rejected (which will feel bad in that moment), whereas the Observer considers – loneliness is not what I want for my life; therefore, I must keep exposing myself to opportunities that take me closer to people.

So, we start to see our ego as the old animal protective personality that still resides within us, within our body, and we befriend that little inner self – “I know you’re scared, but we are going to make that phone call – I know you think you are keeping me safe by staying at home, but we are going out as I need, connection, intimacy and creativity.”

So, don’t fight, harass or try to eliminate your ego, your little eight-year-old – start to love her and accept her – but realise she is an echo from our animal past who has become hyper-vigilant and is stuck in content (rather the more powerful perspective of context).

The ego may fire off with stories or emotional reactions, but you don’t have to give them any meaning or ask why they are happening, or even need to stop them.

Hawkins calls this moving from the self (with a little s) – to the Self with a capital S – The true Self or Higher Self which is more than just the animal body and brain – to something of a higher order – perhaps a more spiritual perspective – and I like that.

Once again, I am just sharing models with you – science can’t prove we have an ego (yet we all intrinsically know that we do!)

So, if what I am saying is reasonable and sensible (though not scientific), what models can we consciously use to understand ourselves better and live our lives from – over and above what our old egos have been doing all unconsciously these years?

The first step is to realise how programmed our brains are and that much of what our brains think is quite irrelevant and can be ignored.

Consider this; if we were looking at a flower and a bee flew past our ear – we probably would have some instant emotional reaction.

Of course, we would, because through thousands of years of evolution, our ego has learned to keep us safe, by monitoring all our senses, guessing what is about to happen, then readying us for the best execution of that expectation, even it is wrong – which of course, when taken to the Nth degree is what OCD is.

One person may run away from the bee; another might become a little startled, someone else might hold out their hand hoping the bee would land on it, another may get an amygdala freeze reaction.

Somebody else might calmly accept what is happening, be OK with any inner distress, let the energy of that moment escape and placebo themselves back into calmness “It’s OK, it’s just a bee, he won’t sting me if I am calm – and its OK if he does, it’s only a sting!”

Our emotional responses come from the ego’s interpretation of that moment, based on data from our five senses, pattern matching, our expectations, our

beliefs, and whether our amygdala stored past experiences in the safe or unsafe database.

Once the emotional response has fired off – the ego then jumps to adding a “story” about what just happened, who was to blame? What should you have done? What will people think of you as you flapped your arms around during an anxious bee freak out moment?

And these are the elements we are transcending by moving above identification with the ego as us – rather than that of the conditioned body.

There could be so many responses from one simple little situation – a flower and a bee – let alone life, work, relationships, family issues and all the unnecessary fear we are being exposed to through the media.

So, let’s try and break down what happens in that fraction of a second moment – which invokes within you some sort of autonomic response – because if you want to change how you react to anxiety or OCD – it makes sense to know what you are dealing with – even if the metaphor is not very scientific.

Remember, our brain sits in the darkness of our skull awaiting input from our senses, so it can decide what is the best course of action at any moment via the release of various chemicals and learned behavioural responses.

Our senses work something like this, but all in a fraction of a second…

Our foveal (or central vision) part of our eyes is taking in the beauty of the flower in great detail – but then it gets evolutionarily trumped by our low detail peripheral vision, as something (as yet unidentified) the bee, attracts our attention – because that is the unconscious response that had evolved to keep us safe – by constantly monitoring and pre-empting danger.

Another sense, hearing, jumps from the stillness of being with a flower – to sampling the vibrational noise of this intruder – in a fraction of a second – that signal is forwarded to the brain for pattern matching and identification, it’s then matched against the safe or unsafe amygdala database – and the appropriate autonomic response fires off – nothing or danger!

Perhaps aaargh, it’s a bee – or AAAAARGH, IT’S A BEE!

At the same time, signals from our hands and sensory skin are being sent to the brain, I don’t know about you, but I like to touch things, textures of leaves and petals. And although I may not be touching the flower, I may be imagining what they feel like – but I don’t want to touch the bee – and these thoughts affect those sensory inputs to the brain.

Then we have our sense of smell, I might like to smell the flower – or perhaps I have hayfever, so the thought of that flower may make me sneeze? But I don’t want to smell the bee.

And finally, taste – I don’t want to taste the flower, but the bee may fire off an association to honey (even though there is no honey there) which I may love, hate or even be allergic to!

Can you see how many inputs, variations and conditioned responses our brain is bombarded with – in that brief encounter between just a flower and a bee?

But here is the point I am trying to make – all those sensory inputs, be they real, referred, imagined or associated to past events – all flow into the brain – where a sixth sense puts them all together and decides what action is best for you in that moment – this is unconscious and automatic – and it has been finely honed through your lifetime.

And maybe it is serving you well, like in a calm person, or perhaps it is sending you on a merry dance like within an anxious person – or maybe nothing happens – like within an exhausted and depressed person?

So, if we could learn to decipher how our unique brain has been wired up – or at least learn the fundamentals of how this works – we have the chance to reverse or rewire some of these brain patterns.

Knowing your real personality from MBTI Emotional Stacks from Myers and Briggs

One process that helped me enormously – was through personality profiling.

I have already introduced you to the simplistic (yet powerful) model for Warriors, Settlers and Nomads, and now I would like you to explore MBTI – the Myers and Briggs personality test – based on the exceptional work of Dr Carl Jung on archetypal characters.

Now bear with me if you have already profiled yourself or been profiled at work – because I want to bring in additional information that is often overlooked.

The test is free, and there is a link in the notes below.

The test separates people into one of sixteen personality types, eight of which are extroverts and eight of which are introverts; it then subdivides further through exploring if you are a thinker, a feeler, are judgmental, how you perceive, intuit or sense the world.

Finally, a role is classified, be that a Guardian, an Artisan, a Rational or an Idealist.

Now I won’t be going into all the science behind the test or explaining all the different types – because once you know your type, there are hundreds of brilliant videos online that you can watch.

But I do want to guide you to where you might like to focus your research and why.

Each personality type has something called an Emotional Stack – for example, I am an INFJ, and my emotional stack looks like this.

As you can see, I am in the idealist group; my title is Advocate, Counsellor or Protector – the I means introverted, the N intuitive, F is for Feeling and J judgemental – and each of these modalities will either be introverted (internal) or extroverted (external).

So, let me drill down deeper because it is important to understand our default brain settings – so we can either accept them or knowingly override them.

So, my primary emotion is Introverted Intuition, or you might say unconscious or inner Intuition.

What this means is – my unconscious mind offers my conscious mind intuitive thoughts about what it thinks will or won’t work – or what outcomes it thinks will happen in any moment.

However, it doesn’t reveal (to my conscious mind) the data it used to support those intuitive thoughts.

Having this as my primary modality but not knowing it – plagued the first half of my life with anxiety and doubt.

In business meetings, I would be listening to my peers, and every sense in my head would be saying “that will never work”, but when I raised my concerns – I could never give a clear reason – so my objections were overruled, however, nine times out of ten my concerns turned out to be true – and people would look at me and say “why didn’t you say something?” When in fact, I had tried.

When I discovered I was an INFJ and my leading modality was, in fact, the true power of my unconscious mind, I had to learn to just trust myself and believe in myself – even if ‘the science’ or logic and reason seemed to be pointing in another direction.

This course would never have happened, and I would never have recovered from OCD – if I had just followed conventional medical science – but something inside me told me there was more to it than that.

I’m told INFJ’s make good teachers, and I think that’s because they have to reverse engineer their Intuition to put that knowledge into a format that can be shared and understood – which is why I like metaphors.

Now the second modality is External (or extroverted) Feeling, which means that my personality or my unconscious operating system seems to default to focussing on and caring more about other peoples feelings than my own.

I have always been able to pick up on how other people feel, often before they do and tend to prioritise their emotional needs over mine.

These days – now I know this, I can consciously choose where my energy goes, to them or on myself – whereas before, I just felt like I had to make them happy before I could be happy, and that was exhausting.

So, my default setting is external Feeling, but I can now choose to manually override it and say things like – “in this moment their emotional wellbeing is not my problem, I will force myself to focus on my emotional needs and won’t feel guilty about it.”

The third modality down – and of course, these modalities become less powerful as you drop down – is internal thinking – which means I think a lot (in my head), but I don’t need to talk to anybody about these thoughts as I keep them in my

head – and should I wish to share them, I will get them in order before I say anything.

And because this is my third stack down, my thoughts are not academic or deeply philosophical – they are more childlike and simplistic as I try to make sense of my unconscious Intuition.

Then my final modality is External Sensing which means that I am, by default, more attuned to sensing what is happening around me rather than within me.

Just sitting here writing, I can hear people outside my home, I can hear the rain on the window, the whine of my central heating system – my senses are more externally focussed on what is happening around me than within me.

We often unknowingly cling to our default programming without realising there is much we can do to change it.

So, if I zoom out from my own profile, it becomes quite clear how it works – due to my external sensing I am consciously aware of all that is happening around me, with specific attention to other peoples feelings, behaviours and needs.

All these copious reams of data are sent to my unconscious mind for storage and interpretation, which arises as unconscious intuition that is usually right based on so much data.

Then, my internal thinking tries to make sense of it all so I can share my thoughts in a way that makes sense though I don’t have conscious access to all the data – therefore, metaphors and stories seem to fit the bill.

But we are all different – if I jump to another character, let’s say an INFP – The healer, idealist or dreamer – their modalities are similar but in a completely different orientation.

Their primary modality is Introverted (or internal) Feeling – how they feel in each moment is the starting point from which they start their day or any new project, relationship or act of creativity.

If they wake up feeling sad or anxious, it can be overwhelming, and they may get caught in the trap of believing that they need to feel better before they can start something.

As you can imagine, this causes lots of procrastination, doubt and regret.

So, this is their default setting, but just by knowing this, it can be consciously overridden – “though I feel sad right now, that doesn’t have to mean anything or stop me from taking action.”

Their second modality is Extroverted (or external) Intuition – which means they are really interested in understanding the world around them and taking that external information, bringing it inside, then doing something creative with it.

Can you see how immediately an emotional conflict might arise – if you have all these great ideas (external intuition) but feel bad (internal Feeling) so feel you can’t take action.

Equally, if your feelings are good, your ideas are good – you will be in an incredibly productive mindset.

Then comes Internal Sensing – and this third modality is often called the child modality, whereby it is looking for gratification and enjoyment on the inside. What does my body need to feel better in this moment, be that food or some other pleasure?

Now because this personality type has lots of internal conflicts and emotional clashes, they can very easily get stuck and emotionally overwhelmed – however, because they see the depth of life and because on a good day they can feel deeply – they have the capacity to be profoundly creative through music, art, writing or philosophic ideologies that support those around them well.

So, can you see, you may be unknowingly tieing yourself in knots via the identification of these patterns as you?

You may be waiting for the imaginary emotion of motivation to come before you start something, or waiting for the fear to pass, or for thoughts to stop –

rather than accepting, its just the way you are wired – and getting on with life – which of course, with repetition will rewire you!

Finally, in this example, the inferior modality is External Thinking – which, very crudely stated, are thoughts that help to make decisions for actions in the outside world.

And as it is the inferior modality, it is not very good, not that they can’t make good decisions – just that they almost need someone to get them to talk aloud, and that act of talking aloud enables them to understand themselves better.

So, you need to go and take the test (or retest yourself if it’s been a while) read all about that personality type and how they tend to be.

Then I would strongly encourage you to spend as much time as you can studying your emotional stack – what your default settings are – so you can learn to optimise them or override them at any moment.

I promise you this is a powerful process if you do the research and put the effort in.

So, a bit of a recap – our senses send data to our brain, our sixth sense (our animal ego) compiles, collates and responds – and these become our behavioural responses in any moment.

And for those of you taking this course, those responses have been tuned towards fear and anxiety – and we are looking to reprogram them back towards calmness.

How you have been programmed can (loosely) be categorised through pattern matching via personality profiling – and represented in these emotional stacks – which will give you a simple model to understand yourself better.

Assuming you put the effort in to learn it – and remember how sabotaging our little ego can be to try and stop you from taking action…

Once you know your personality type and the function of your emotional stacks, it makes a lot of sense to sit with your partner, your children or other important people in your life to share with them how you operate – and to explore how they operate.

That way, you can treat them how they want to be treated, and they can treat you in ways you will respond best to.

So your homework is to consider… Could we be more programmed than we might expect from our schooling and domestication?

Were our beliefs given to us, trained into us – rather than ones we would choose to adopt as an adult now?

Were you taught self-esteem, self-respect, how to speak up for yourself, how to benefit from science, yet still apply critical thinking and explore who funds science and why?

Can you see your ego as the residual protective personality of the animal – befriend it, and rise above it as the Observer?

Can you explore how your senses feed your sixth sense, which is your programming – and we might call that your personality.

Then by understanding your personality traits – you can see they are only traits and can be accepted or overridden – even reprogrammed via exposure therapy.

Take the test – then study the emotional stack for that personality through watching online videos – and I will put links in the notes below to get you started.

And finally, I would like to close with an observation.

Let’s say we went back 20 years, and you were taking this course back then – and you started to feel better – you would have been feeling better in a relatively easy-going world with only a slow pace of change, so your growth in emotional calmness would be very noticeable.

However, though your awareness has likely been expanding, and you are probably doing well – our world is changing at an unprecedented pace.

This makes it hard for you to find a comparison you can use to see how far you have come.

Everybody is getting stressed and anxious with all this economic uncertainty and disruption – even I have to take time each day to keep resetting myself and

making sure that – the conscious programming of my own unconscious mind and body I do each day – is greater than that thrust upon me from society, mainstream media, governments, religion and family.

These days you need to be a superhero to be calm – but you won’t find calmness in social media, three minute online memes or watching the news – or clinging on to your old stories about yourself.

Change comes from self-mastery, relinquishing the ego, meditation, changing perspectives, moving from content to context, exposure therapy, repetition – having clear intentions, stopping doing drama – and learning to be nice to yourself.

Thanks for watching – let’s get exploring those emotional stacks!