The only way for inner peace is to let go for the I. To let go of the ego. The ego is the source of my emotional turmoil. The ego is the source of my anxiety, loneliness, suffering and anger. What anyone does or says to me shouldn\u2019t affect me. Its my response and my ego which takes pain from whatever happens and makes my life miserable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Automatic thoughts pop into my head every day. Most of these are completely unwarranted to the situation. Thought such as dwelling on past relationships, how people are incompetent at their jobs and how I need to be around people. The honest truth is that 99% of these thoughts don\u2019t serve me. They lead to a life of suffering and emotional turmoil. In certain situations, these automatic thoughts are warranted. They ensure life or death. They ensure the continuation of the human species. These automatic thoughts are from the ego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If my ego and everything that is associated with \u201cI\u201d will perish when I die and if the ego is causing me to suffer every day, why don\u2019t I just stop the bleeding early. Why don\u2019t I try to drop my ego now to avoid a life of misery and pain? It seems that it\u2019s the most rational thing to do for freedom. If I was just a man with no preferences, no political factions, no religion, no group identities how would my life be? If instead of attaching myself to something, someone and some belief, I just dropped all of them and simply followed the truth, how would my life be? A life of freedom would be guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The only way for inner peace is to let go for the I. To let go of the ego. The ego is the source of my emotional turmoil. The ego is the source of my anxiety, loneliness, suffering and anger. What anyone does or says to me shouldn\u2019t affect me. Its my response and my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryhanh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}