There is an inner voice that speaks to us and that is not dictated by the Ego but is the voice of the Self and is the one that unites body and soul.

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If we are careful, if we are silent without running away, without taking refuge in the hysterical rush to find other things to do, we can recognize, within us, two orators who express themselves through thought.

The first is constantly inclined to repeat words in the head that confirm redundant thinking, the belief in a concept, an idea, an opinion, a judgment we have of ourselves and towards others and that we preserve and defend. at all costs; it is the obsessive mindset that through everything we have experienced insists on not letting us go out of that famous comfort zone behind which there is fear, the obstinacy in not wanting to believe and / or see something completely different we are used to or formats.

Discovering new realities and visions involves the admission of behaviors and choices that for a whole life or for family fidelity have been preserved, after all, suffering and holding back scents for sheer convenience and apparent advantage.

All this involves aligning oneself with models and / or ideologies that on the one hand strengthen one's spirit of control but on the other hand the vision and image that are created induce, in everyday life, the self-sabotage of a relational growth, of development. and personal success.

I could continue to write a lot about the little voice of the Ego, that thought of proud self-satisfaction that makes us feel apparently safe and very weak at the same time, reinforcing phrases and attitudes of pity and arrogance to make us stay "in the right place" at the cost of putting ourselves against ourselves. something and someone preventing the communication synergy or the humble encounter towards the other ... but I want to linger in the memory of that day when I found myself meditating together with a Vipassana Buddhist Monk (which means "look inside", " see clearly ") to express in the simplest and most concrete way the difference between the speaker supporting our own brakes and the second: the voice of the Self.

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The Monk was in front of me at a certain distance in which it was silence that defined space and time, it was just the two of us and that day no one had come to practice meditation; as the chaos outside a Bangkok too busy with inattention and distraction continued its course, he broke the file and told me:

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"Do you recognize that voice that speaks to you, the one that knows, the one that tells you what you hear?"

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and I replied: "Yes I recognize her"

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and the Monk: "You know what it tells you, what is the answer .."

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and I: "Yes"

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and he: "We human beings do not listen to that voice and we replace it with that of the Ego and we make fun of ourselves every day pretending nothing has happened".

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Where there is listening to the voice of the Self, responsibility opens up to true change which is accompanied by respect for one's own body and openness to free experiences of meaning and it is thanks to this inner movement that we can best express what the Soul, Spirit or Greater Force pushes through the countless events of Life to be truly seen and felt.

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