Dr Itai Ivtzan
Why are we trapped in patterns that keep repeating themselves? Past experiences and conditioning have gradually created in your mind a list of rights and wrongs, a series of understandings, expectations, and attitudes that define your Ego Formed Self and shape its building blocks. When you face certain situations – at work, with your partner, or with your family – your Ego Formed Self kicks off preconceived reactions, organized responses that reflect a certain aspect of it. Breaking your Patterns will find simple, concrete techniques & exercises so that you can let go of all those old patterns.
We are rarely able to choose our response; There is no magic here, no underlying metaphysical law. Not only do your accumulated ego concepts perpetuate these patterns, they also restrict your own perspective of life and set limits to your self. By adopting certain ego concepts you define your self but at the same time you define what you are not.
At the relevant moment the option of being sensitive will not be at your disposal. By limiting your self this way, you are limiting your capacity to face life as it is. So many situations are outside your comfort zone simply because you have defined your self in a certain way, and you now lack the tools that could potentially show you how to deal with the moment as it is. An example could be the issue of feminine and masculine qualities in a person – male or female.
Most of us feel that we must make a choice. We can be either this or that. Psychological research indicates that the ability to contain both the feminine and the masculine within you has many advantages. In one of my studies, participants who scored high in both the masculine and feminine scales also displayed higher levels of self-actualisation, that is, better fulfilment of their potential.
These findings suggest that the capacity to embrace both aspects of your self rather than regard them as mutually exclusive directly impacts your capability to live your life in full. This is when you live with greater freedom.
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