Deepening Your Intuition: Uncovering Our Ego Character

As Healers and Coaches, every day we become more aware of our abilities and our intuition. Indeed, as we gain confidence, listening to our intuition becomes easier. Why, then, is it so hard to trust what our intuition is telling us? What prevents us from listening to that wisdom inside of us? In this five part series, we will uncover underlying challenges that arise when we deepen our intuition and further reveal our ego character. 

Our ego character is our subconscious coping mechanism for surviving on this planet. It aids us during difficult times by creating a safe place for us to exist on this earth plain. In this process, we quickly learn how to interact so that we will survive. However, we have free will and can choose to be more loving, live in the light and heal ourselves. We can then move beyond the karmic stories we have carried through generations in our lineages and from our ancestors. When we fully understand the security of our ego character, we can transcend or transform the ongoing issues we have created. The key to uncovering how we have unconsciously learned to interact with energy(s) is to first contemplate our energetic defenses. 

Energetic Defenses are subconsciously created to help us feel better during significant events or traumatic situations. They operate from the shadow and are triggered by underlying fear, thus blocking true feelings and light energy (s). Over time, we learn that these tactics work well to protect our innate essence or being. We then start to accumulate this energy and hold it physically in our bodies, creating a type of energetic armor or structure. Wilhelm Reich discovered the theory that this armor can also be described as a body character structure. Reich was a body psychotherapist and determined that the people he treated could be fitted into five major categories. He noted that these people had similar basic dynamics from childhood experiences that could have been very traumatic. These traumas tended to not only block their feelings, but their flow of energy as well. Once learned, a person will repeat these patterns to protect themselves.

A deeper understanding of our ego character and energetic defenses are contributing factors in the five body type structures. We typically encompass two body types and operate from both. We can bridge the remaining three by embracing the light and rejecting the shadow (dark side) of these characteristics. You may recognize one or more in yourself based on some traits from your physical stance or personality. I have taken three main traits for each body type that explains how you hold your presenting energy defense.

• Presenting complaint, fear and anxiety.
• Do you feel like you are split off from life?
• Are you hyperactive or ungrounded?

• Do you have a need to be independent?
• Head is forward and build is heavy.
• Body tension is compressed and hard.

• Do you feel you demand the right to be supported and encouraged?
• Inflated chest – Top heavy.
• Do you dictate to others?

• Strong will and very heady, think a lot.
• Hyperactive and high energy.
• Very Athletic and proportioned body.

• Do you have abandonment issues?
•  Body tension – Flaccid, smooth muscles.
• Do you feel the need to mother others?

KI Lifestyle Solutions offers classes and programs that can provide ways for you to learn, process, and heal. You will gain a deeper understanding not only of yourself but also those around you and you will be able to hold space in a more compassionate and assertive manner. This extends to your personal and professional relationships. If you would like to register for any classes or require further information, please contact Carell at carell@kilifestyle.ca or via our website at kilifestyle.ca/contact. Inspire, Heal, Grow! Namaste!

Part two of our series, which will discuss the core personalities and their light and dark characteristics, will be posted to our blog on July 23, 2021.