Daily Inspiration: July 4. Declaring Your Independence from the Ego’s Rule

When you declare your independence from the ego, not only do you set yourself free, but you also help begin to set the whole world free. When you let go of the ego’s tools, such as judgment, anger and resentment, you no longer look upon turmoil, confusion and chaos, and proclaim them as your own. You instead free your brothers and sisters from them, and by doing so, break yourself free from the chains that bound you to the ego’s world. What good does it do to maintain a prison within your mind, if there are no prisoners that through judgment, anger and resentment you hold captive? What good are judgment, anger and resentment when you make the conscious decision to look upon everyone through compassionate, loving and forgiving eyes? Today, let us declare our  independence from the ego’s rule. We do so by choosing the opposite of what it demands we choose. When it demands judgment, we offer forgiveness instead. When it wants us to be angry, we instead show compassion.  When it wants us to sulk in resentment, we will instead be understanding. Today, let us offer our gratitude to anyone who helps us practice achieving our independence from the ego. The more we get to practice being consciously independent from the ego, the less need or use we will have for it. Thanks to free will, our freedom is always, even during our seeming darkest trails, a simple choice away. Rejoice, for if it is you who has unconsciously chosen along with the ego’s mindset, then it is also you who can consciously choose to free yourself from it. The power to release yourself from this foreign mindset resides not somewhere out there, but within you. Yes, it is in the end only you who can choose between judgment or forgiveness, anger or compassion, resentment or peace, and imprisonment or freedom.

You have fought long and hard to get to this point in your life. A point where you are awakening to the understanding that you belong aligned with Love’s energies and expressions. You have travelled long and far on the ego’s path, but having done so, you now know that it does not get you any closer to your desired destination. You have defended the ego’s mindset that always insisted that you are right and that they are wrong. Yet now, you are beginning to figure out that being happy is much more desirable to you than being right. You have sacrificed and ended relationships because the ego insisted that there was always someone more worthy of you out there. Yet now, you are seeing that in the present moment, whoever you are with, is your greatest gift. Let us today no longer fight on behalf of the ego. Instead, let us concentrate our energy on fighting the good fight, on retraining our minds to look upon this world through Love’s eyes. It will be by doing so that we will begin to dissolve the ego’s mindset from our experience. Today, let us no longer judge others, when all that they are in truth doing is offering us the opportunities to practice healing our own minds. Imagine, no longer having the taste or hunger for judgment, anger and resentment. Imagine, viewing the ego’s tools and mindset and deciding that they are no longer worth the heavy weight that its burdens would have us carry. How much longer must you log around your judgments, anger and resentments, before you realize that they are just not worth the effort, nor are worthy of you. How much longer do you need to hold unto them before you realize that they should not be worth more to you than your peace of mind and joy?

Today, let us practice feeling what it’s like to be truly free. Today, let us throw away the ego’s tools in the same garbage dump where all of it’s trinkets, in time, seem to end up in. Then let us turn away from its dumping ground and start walking towards a world were Love’s expressions such as forgiveness and compassion reign supreme. In such a world, free from judgment of self and others, anger and resentment, we are finally free to be who our Creator created us to be. Today, let us make in every interaction, the conscious choice for love. This way we model to those still lost in the ego’s ways, how to free themselves from the darkness and return to being One with the light within. As awakening beings, we no longer must drag the ego’s ball and chain around our hearts and minds. No longer must the ego’s judgmental mindset burden us nor weigh us down. No longer must we continue to toss and turn at night because such thoughts are not allowing us to fall peacefully to sleep. Today, through forgiveness, and by focusing only on our loving nature, let us make peace with the past. In doing so we set ourselves, and those we carry within us, free from it.  Let us also fret no longer over the future. Instead, let us recall that there is Someone much wiser than all of us, Who is truly in control. Fully placing the future in God’s hands, we return back to the present moment. The present moment, that holy instant in time where the ego’s delusions dissolve before our light, love and understanding. Today, any time that we are choosing our loving essence and nature over the ego’s tools and mindset, we are in essence declaring our independence from the ego’s rule.

Today, let us become more consciously aware of what actions keep us imprison within the ego’s mindset, and what actions help us declare independence from the ego’s rule. A few of the actions that keep us imprison within the ego’s mindset are those of judgment, anger and resentment. When imprison within the ego’s mindset we experience conflict, confusion and chaos. When we declare independence from the ego, we consciously reject its demands and instead choose to align with and be guided by, our eternal loving essence and nature. Peace of mind, joy, the ability to forgive, gratitude for the present moment, and trusting in God, are some of the actions of one who is living free from the ego’s rule. Choosing forgiveness over judgment, compassion over anger, peace over resentment, and trusting God over anxiousness, are all signs of one who has declared his or her independence from the ego’s rule.

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All glory to God.

Peace, Health, Happiness, Love, Laughter, and Light.

James Blanchard Cisneros

Author of the book “You Have Chosen to Remember”

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That message of yours simply states exactly what Jesus did in A Course in Miracles, only in more clear, and simple language, which is helpful for millions of people. I have studied and worked with the Course since first crying a river of tears during my first reading of the Text in July, of 1984, 39 years ago. I appreciate the wonderful work you are doing to bring this forward to so many people.

Be that as it may, I’m thinking way back in time to when humans lived in caves or in times closer to today even, in the Four Corners part of southwest America, in the cliffs of the Mesa Verde Nat’l Park, which I visited many years ago, where husband and I climbed down and back up those vertical wooden stairs to view and learn about how the Anasazi lived. I can imagine the women carrying their produce from the tops of the mesas down steps just like those that were there when we climbed them. Or carrying their smallest children up and down those wooden steps that hang vertically from the cliffs.

The guide there told us that historians, researchers at the time we were there (1980s) did not know why the Anasazis had left their cliff homes. Being a woman, a mother, a gardener I can well imagine that the women might have put their metaphorical feet down, and said they wouldn’t be doing such difficult work any longer, they’d had enough of it. Just think of that kind of hardship that the women went through to do that.

Also, we might want to think about the very Founders of this country — even some were my forefathers — who wanted separation from Great Britain. They were Englishmen who were angered because the Crown was tyrannical, and so now we can, and should, read about their grievances over its breaking the Laws of England in The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. Would there even BE such a nation, a People, as ours were those ancestors of ours NOT been so VERY angered? Yes, there’re human purposes in the e(nergy in)motion of anger, so we can say where would the human race actually BE without it? So many things un-thought of during earlier centuries, all of the inventions that have helped the lives of every one of us, because someone was perturbed and had thought of better ideas of what was needed to solve millions of human struggles just to stay alive. Everyone one of us can appreciate those who were perturbed enough to be innovators and inventors who found better ways to get things done.

Anger held onto through unforgiveness is harmful to one’s health, and forgiveness is the way to release it, however, it is also very helpful to be able to express that anger, and not make it into a “withhold” that eats one up. Yes, it may come from ego, but it also may come from Holy Spirit, for instance to move someone to become helpful in some way or another, when one sees and/or knows about some people needing help, and they are then moved to do something about it. Yes, that is a helpful anger in (e-) motion. Could you not consider that one’s ego just might then be under Holy Spirit’s direction? If not, then what do you call it?

I see and read about what’s happening in this world, and I cry about many things easily, but am not physically able…due to age and bad joints…and am not financially able to be as helpful as I wanted to be at my age, 81. I pray often for our People and country, as well as other people who struggle.

Here is my most briefly written testimony about forgiveness, which I know in my heart led me straight to the Course 12 years later: About 12 years before I encountered ACIM, I was immersed in baptism, near age 30, tho’ having been christened in a Methodist church age four months, but two days before that happened I received a note from a Girl Scout leader whom I had been helping as an Assistant Leader, who’d tasked me with something she couldn’t do herself, and when I couldn’t follow through with that task for the reason that I needed the help of two of the girls’ other mothers to get it done, and her note railed on me for my failure of being able to get the job done, which caused me to have a knot in my solar plexus for the only time in my life. I did not sleep that night and I went to a park the next day, and in tears all the while, wrote her a letter explaining my difficulties in getting mothers’ help and ended with a prayer over my circumstances that “God would forgive us both, we would each forgive the other, and forgive ourselves,” and ended it in the “Name of Jesus Christ.” Next evening, arising from immersion of my baptism, my only thought was that “Everything between Margaret and I would be all right.” Without ever saying anything to her in person, nor she to me during these four days…nor since… next day I received a note of apology from Margaret, as we lived only a few blocks apart. (It happened between Monday and Thursday.) I wrote that letter to her because I KNEW in my heart that I could not be baptized without settling this matter before “bringing my gifts to God’s altar.” Rough paraphrase of NT passage.

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