Comments on: Starve the Ego Feed the Soul Challenge

By: Brady

Brady — Fri, 15 May 2015 05:29:12 +0000

Love to know there are good souls out there or I wouldn’t have found this site. Thought I should share this.. I have had a problem with anger in myself since childhood and would be enraged if I just dropped something…could not understand why this existed into my adulthood even entering my early fifties. Have read numerous amounts of books in the religious and self help areas but still found myself mad when I failed at something. Then I had the realization that the ego has been in control always and even if I fed my soul (helping others and staying on a good path) my ego seem to want more. This is when I realized that all my frustrations, fears, negative emotions were the result of my ego taking the front row of importance throughout my life. I have now taken steps to stop that ego child in me. So now anytime I feel fear, anger or any other ego driven emotion in me I just smile and know that egos are never satisfied and create a false sense of low self esteem. When the ego is ready to help then it will be welcome, but if not, then it will be ignored for the next 2 months to the rest of my life. The world is full of wonderful souls and this site proves it. Thank you for making the would a better place

By: Natosha Monroe

Natosha Monroe — Wed, 07 May 2014 23:04:38 +0000

Hi Curtiss,
Anthony may weigh in as well, but I just wanted to comment as well:

-In my research I found that studies indicate new habit formation even when participants forgot a day or two here or there. So keeping that in mind, it’s not necessary for one to beat himself up too much if he realizes on Tuesday that he forgot something Monday 🙂
-Accountability on a project such as this is a great help. For instance, I’m doing the challenge as well as several of my clients, friends, and family members (to include people I’ve never met in person!) so that keeps us on track more than if we did it alone.
-I’ve heard from people who would rarely if ever be making decisions the way they are once they begin the challenge. It’s at the forefront of their mind daily, so when an opportunity pops up—they seize the moment as their “ego starvation” moment where normally they may not have recognized it as a special moment of decision. Powerful stuff! 🙂
-The positive reinforcement of acts of kindness, etc. will do just that—positively reinforce. So as you know, we are creatures of training. So that in and of itself for an extended amount of time will likely shape someone’s behavior and decision-making in some way.
-Since we tend to pay attention to differences/changes in order to see what happens out of curiosity, when positive things happen as a result of the “starve the ego” decision it will be noticed. Sure, this won’t always be the case but given the nature of the challenge it is more likely than a negative result.
Natosha

By: Curtiss Robinson

Curtiss Robinson — Wed, 07 May 2014 12:33:33 +0000

Dr. Centore,
I love the cognitive approach of this challenge! I am a huge fan of the training model for self improvement so this is right up my alley. I was wondering a little more about the mid-flight corrections we might make when we notice we are a little of course on our “Ego fasting” journey. It is so common to beat ourselves up when we feel like we are failing when in truth we might actually be learning! Your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Curtiss