Use Mindfulness to Emancipate Your Life Potential by Disarming These 3 Ego Traps

Every day, the vast majority of people across the world struggle. They struggle everywhere, regardless of background, nation, race, gender, sexual preference, income or wealth, living situation, or any other label that people identify themselves by. People all around the world struggle with the inherently challenging situations that life presents them, and they continue to struggle when they fall prey to traps, or obsessive thought loops that their own minds — their egos — set.

However, every single person, no matter their circumstances or identity label, actually possesses the ability to free themselves from these ego-designed traps. The ego by design is never satisfied for long, and so the ego needs to be fed constantly by reinforcing its imaginary image of self. This is why these traps are so devastating and mire us constantly in obsessive thought loops: these ego traps reset themselves every time they are sprung or every time you manage to free yourself from them.

Stoking the ego is a lifelong addiction that prevents most people from fully enjoying the incredible journey that is life. Most people believe what their egos tell them about how they need to do various things to feel okay, to feel important, or to feel alive. This belief ties their identity to the ideas their egos…