Ego the Parrot
What if a parrot lived on your shoulder and parroted everything that you say or think? The parrot would get pretty annoying pretty fast.
What if the tables were turned and instead you parrot everything an internal parrot says? If your every thought, spoken word and action was dependent on it, you’d likely would not be annoyed if it gave rise to your sense of self. Similar to a true parrot, you might get positive attention/reinforcement for your ego’s antics leading to a dependency on this relationship.
This figurative parrot is your ego/self and it’s default mode network of inner-commentary has quite a lot of power over you. Would you like to change the balance of the relationship, check your ego and see beyond the self?
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Chapter 1
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I'm being puppeteered by a parrot?
Not only is there a parrot inside you, there are two parrots. Let dissect your brain a little bit in order to explain.
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Evidence of Parrots
Maybe you are not convinced. Often people miss its existence because we have been so habituated and normalized. We have merged with our “inner-parrots” so much so that it is quite hard to see beyond.
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3