The Ego Plays Dumb

You’re smart.

Let’s start there.

You are an intelligent human being capable of learning, knowing, and applying many things.

However, many wounded people have an ego playing dumb.

I think I may have heard this termed as “learned helplessness.”

This helpless/dumb ego makes everyone helpless because the person refuses to use their intelligence and take actions that they know they need to take.

You Are Smart; The Ego Is Not

Let’s take a step back and re-iterate the subhead.

You’re a very intelligent person.

The type of people who enjoy my erudite way of describing the deconstruction of ego are no dummies.

Yet, this process of pretending that someone can’t do something they can do or doesn’t know something that they absolutely know must stop for those who are enmeshed in this ego.

Those of you who have stopped this pattern understand how little that it helped.

Say Yes to Help!

Using a Spiritual Teacher as a Therapist

Surrender to Truth of Your Unconscious Ego

Again and again, the process of letting go of ego is simple: surrender to the truth.

Now you can journal about it, speak about it, and unlearn it from your heart and body.

When you have it pointed out by a friend, partner, community member, or by me, it’s your full responsibility to intellectually own it. Then you have to process the source of it emotionally and releasing the attachments and patterns from your body.

What you need most from people like me, however, is what you don’t know about yourself.

Finding Out You’re Wrong About Yourself

The Ego Pretend Game

Pretending you don’t know something or conveniently forgetting an issue are part of the playing dumb pattern that keeps you locked in suffering.

It’s a passive-aggressive form of abuse.

Passive-aggressive abusers play dumb to manipulate the overt abuser. It makes the overt abuser feel big and important. It can be a way of making the overt abuser be wrong because you’re making them guess about what is going on. Then when they’re wrong, the passive-aggressive abuser can think to themselves, “Oh they’re so wrong and they thought they are so right.”

It’s a fucked up situation to learn these patterns in.

Now it’s time to unlearn them.

Spiritual Awakening and Your Mental Health