Surrendering Your Ego

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In Michael Casey’s A Guide to Living in the Truth: Saint Benedict’s Teaching on Humility, he explains that over a thousand years ago, Saint Benedict proposed that humility is the truth of human nature, whereas pride is a “radical falsehood”. This truth impacts on the mind, heart, and emotions, and to deny its influence is the source of all human suffering. This course involves a weekly tapping script covering each of the steps of humility.

Course Content

First Step: Become conscious of our words, deeds, thoughts, and actions
Saint Benedict's first step in his 12-step plan of humility when put into a modern context asks us to: * Become aware of why we act the way we act * Become aware of why we think what we think * Become aware of why we feel how we feel * Become aware of why we do what we do * Explore our fears, doubts, and insecurities, as well as our love, passion, desire, and will for what we want

  • Becoming Conscious of Your Actions
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  • Becoming Conscious of Your Thoughts
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  • Becoming Conscious of Your Feelings
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  • Becoming Conscious of Your Words
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Second Step: Becoming responsible for all of who we are
Saint Benedict's second step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into a modern context asks us to: * Accept who we are and its impact on our life and others * Learn that our will and desire does not dictate life her for us or others * Begin to share equally in joy, pleasure, hardships, and pain * Acknowledge our role in everything and acknowledge other's role's in everything as well * Step out of the drama and acknowledge how we control ourselves and others through drama

Third Step: Acknowledge a higher power
Saint Benedict's third step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into modern context asks us to: * Learn that we are not God; we don't decide what is best for others and deem it so * Accept that we can't control everything even in our life * Learn to pray, to talk, and seek guidance from God, Spirit, a higher power, or all there * Surrender our will to divine will

Fourth Step: Patience in enduring difficulties with equanimity
Saint Benedict's fourth step in his twelve-step of humility when put into modern context asks us to: * Learn to be patient * Accept that we do not determine the timing of events * Learn the lesson that all things are as they should be in any given moment * Learn to endure hard times and still be happy

Fifth Step: Self-revelation
Saint Benedict's fifth step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into modern context asks us to: * Face our own imperfections and admit them to those we have hurt because of them * Do not seek forgiveness for our imperfections; merely accept our responsibility * Accept how others feel about our words, actions, and beliefs, and feel how human we really are

Sixth Step: Contentment with the least of everything
Saint Benedict's sixth step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into modern context asks us to: * Learn to be grateful for all we have, and let go of the desire for the best and biggest of everything * Find joy in the little things in life * Learn to value family and friends for who they are, without wanting them to change in ways we desire

Seventh Step: Awareness of out liabilities
Saint Benedict's seventh step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into modern context asks us to: * See ourselves as the smallest and most insignificant human being on the planet and enjoy it for what it is * Embrace our powerlessness and free ourselves from the fear we will not survive * Stop taking everything personally * Accept that everything isn't about us * Accept that "deserving" is ego, and there is no such thing as deserving what we get - good, bad, or indifferent

Eight Step: Seek to understand oneness
Saint Benedict's eighth step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into modern contexts asks us to: * Learn that we are not alone, that we are not an island * Learn that we are not one individual striving to succeed and conquer all others * Learn about love. There is no such thing as unconditional love because love is unconditional - anything less, and it is conditional love * Develop empathy and compassion for human reality

Nineth Step: Learn silence and stillness
Saint Benedict's nineth step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into modern contexts asks us to: * Learn not to advise others on their life * Learn to hold out tongue and listen with compassion * Even if we know a lot about a topic, practice not sharing this information as an expert * Stop idle chatter * Learn to be peaceful; in thought, feeling, and actions * Develop a balance in our use of energy

Tenth Step: Avoidance of laughter
Saint Benedict's tenth step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into a modern context asks us to: * Stop dismissing things that matter to us and others * Stop making jokes at others expense or our own * Stop minimising ours and others hurts and pains

Eleventh Step: Gravity in speech
Saint Benedict's eleventh step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into a modern context asks us to: *Use fewer words when we speak *Only say what must be said *Speak softly, clearly, and concisely * Step out of the mindless story telling and do not repeat rumours and untruths * Never gossip

Twelfth Step: Humility
Summary: Saint Benedict's twelfth step in his twelve-step plan of humility when put into a modern context asks us to: * Be humility in body and heart - is all that is said or done *Surrender the need to be seen to be humble * Accept that we don't define ourselves as humble, but others see us as humble in our words and actions

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