Loving the F

Dannielle Bryan | Ego

Episode Summary

Shamanic Twist Founder Dannielle Bryan is back to talk about the ego.

Episode Notes

As always,  Shamanic Twist Founder Dannielle Bryan is engaging, provocative and funny. In this conversation there is a lot of laughter sandwiched between layers of information about the ego. Dannielle suggests the ego may have a purpose, so don't be too quick about trying to incise it from your beingness.

• The thing about the shadow is not stuff we don't want to own. It's disowned parts of our self. Its the part not fully in the light. (01:19)
• There are parts of ourselves that we have disowned. There are elements that we'd rather not admit exist but there are also elements of ourselves that we think we don't have and we do... that too exists within us and if we don't see it within ourselves, its held in shadow.  (01:57)
• Everything in our life experience is divinely orchestrated. There are gifts in all of it and when we can see the gift, and fully integrate it, from there we can let go of the pattern that no longer serves.(03:20)
• What I've come to be known to be true for myself about the ego...it is nuts. .That part of that mad mind, that nonstop voice that goes on in the back of our beingness, a lot of that is the ego. And what is the ego? It's part of our personality that  we identify with but it is not who we are. (04:37)
• If this is an aspect of myself, what's in there? (06:34)
• I love what Michael Singer said in his book , The Untethered Soul, "It's not loyal." (07:43)
• If we're only seeing the parts of the ego that don't serve, or that we judge to not serve, and that exists too, there are those parts...if we really look at what's happening in there, its information for us. (10:41)
• Sometimes the journey of our evolution feels counterintuitive and it feels like an oxymoron...the medicine was that I actually had to identify with it. I had to believe I could do it. (12:44)
• When we're willing to look at what's driving the behavior and what's underneath it, then there's a place where the ego, that part of our personality, can actually can become in service to the essence of who we really are, living from that higher state of our consciousness. It actually can be in service.  (14:26)
• The ego part of ourselves is in some kind of relationship with our individual personality and who we are. And if we're to look at that as being bad and wrong and just drop it and "kill the ego," what are we really doing? (15:23)
• It's to look at all the parts of ourselves and say, "Yes, that too exists in me." (18:47)
• That experience lives in all of us. To recognize that on one level offers forgiveness and compassion and it also helps us to recognize that we are made up of all kinds of possibilities. (19:59)
• Is there a part of ourselves that we can recognize that we're perfect just as we are? (24:06)
• We all want to start at the place that says, "We're perfect just as we are." But that's just a saying until we actually get to the place where we know it and believe it. So it is cliche' until its not. (24:59)
• What if we just fucking stop that insanity and start with where we are and say, "Can I love and accept myself, right here, right now, exactly how I am?"  And then the next line of thought or questioning can be, "If something is no longer working for you, what is in there that needs to be honored and recognized and integrated  so that we can stop doing the behavior that doesn't work and we can choose into something else?" But to get in this place of, "I've got to fix all this stuff and get perfect," that is a never-ending, lifelong, exhaustive marathon.(25:37)
• If I ask you to step into the energetics and I ask you to not think, but to feel and tell me what is the gift  of this," its a different level of engagement. (29:58)
• And we look at where do we get on the triangle with ourselves? Where do we get on the triangle with ourselves? And that tends to be the insanity of the mad mind. Of that voice in our mind that is always telling us something about what we are not doing or should be doing. And that is your own personal bully. (35:27)
• When we can own the gifts, it becomes one of our greatest strengths and one of our greatest resources. (50:32)
• If you're unwilling to look at all those pieces about your stuff, its still in play. (51;38)
• If anyone says, "Oh, I've done my shadow work," BEWARE. As if its all done. As if one quick gander into the land of shadow ends it all there. Lets be willing to grow, to accept, to be introspective, to say, "What's in there? What's going on?..." (52:27)
• So much richness comes from that place and so much of our ability to stand in our power and to be co-creators of our life and create more of what we want comes from that place and willingness to go to those places we say we'd rather not. (54:10)