不必妄“自”菲薄 |《健康之道》连载（19）

摘译自《健康之道》1984年3月18日

你通常将你有意识的头脑视为自我。在物质生命中，它是导向行动的。许多思想学派似乎都有一种奇怪的想法，认为自我比自己的其他部分低级，或者说"自私"，并认为自我肯定比内我或灵魂的品质要低些。

首先，真的不可能把自己的各个部分分开，而我们做出这样的区分只是为了努力解释人格的诸多面向。那么，一般的理解是，你的确有一个导向外在活动的自我，而那样说来，你也有一个内在自我。它也是有意识的，而且是所有自动的内在活动的指挥。

大多数人没有意识到，他们的确可以获得这种内在的觉知。这个内在自我，或者说内我，不该被认为比你平常的头脑优越。实际上，它不该被认为是与你平常的头脑分离的东西。你的自我和你平常的意识将你所有的物质经验带入焦点，并使物质经验的出色精确性成为可能。

物质生命真的只代表一种存在的状态。那么，你还有其他种类的存在。有意识的头脑是你更大意识的一个辉煌的部分，但它是由构成所有意识的相同的宇宙能量及活力组成的。不过，有一些与内在自我或内我沟通的方法，我们很快将讨论其中的一些。再说一次，重要的是，要记住这个内在自我或内我运用了一个远比推理快得多的过程。

所以，当这种交流发生时，常常包含了灵感、直觉和冲动，而且处理更多的是感觉，远多于通常的逻辑思维。

You usually think of your conscious mind as your ego. It is directed toward action in physical life. Many schools of thought seem to have the curious ideas that the ego is inferior to other portions of the self, or "selfish," and imagine it to be definitely of a lower quality than the inner self, or the soul.

In the first place, it is really impossible to separate portions of the self, and we make such distinctions only in an effort to explain the many facets of the personality. It is generally understood, then, that you do have an ego, directed toward exterior activity, and in those terms you also have an inner ego. It is also conscious, and is the director of all automatic interior activity.

Most people do not realize that they can indeed have access to this inner awareness. This inner ego or inner self should not be thought of as superior to your ordinary mind. It should not be thought of, really, as something separate from your ordinary mind. Your ego and your ordinary consciousness bring into focus all of your physical experiences, and make possible the brilliant preciseness of physical experience.

It is true that physical life represents only one condition of being. You have other kinds of existence, then. The conscious mind is one brilliant segment of your larger consciousness, but it is composed of the same universal energy and vitality that composes all consciousness. There are ways of communicating with the inner ego or inner self, however, and we will discuss some of these very shortly. It is important, again, to remember that this inner ego or inner self uses a process that is far swifter than reasoning.

When such communications are made, therefore, they often consist of inspiration, intuition, impulses, and deal with feeling far more than with usual logical thinking. 

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