How is EGO formed and how to control it? Some aspects from babies to adults.
Learning about how to control the ego leads to a state of permanent enquiry, a mature state. In school we get an emotional reward from the teacher or ourselves as to success or failure, we attach to those emotions and this also becomes part of our ego – and is the basis of our “learning” process at school. But first we need to understand conditioning and how this builds up ego . There are political aspects of our conditioning, and words we might use are indoctrination, manipulation propaganda etc . Conditioning is a natural process that we all go through in our education and upbringing , and it is far broader than any political description. In his books (The Four Agreements and The Fifth Agreement) – App A, Don Miguel Riaz describes this conditioning as agreements – a far gentler term. We go through our education and upbringing until eventually we agree with what society and our parents want us to agree with. I prefer to call this process “conditioning” beca...