Are You Being Present?

The Presence Projects presents episode 83 of the "Are You Being Present?" podcast series.  Join Paul for a podcast that addresses a word, tool, expression and feeling that has been used pervasively throughout society as a negative motivator and control mechanism severely impacting an individual’s ability to be Present. The title and topic of this episode is “Disappointment Is a Tool of the Ego That Prevents Presence".  In this podcast Paul focuses on how the ego, your ego and other people's egos, use disappointment as a negative motivator that manipulates and elicits a reaction from a negative state of being.  Many children are parented to not want to disappoint, or become disappointments, to their authority figures.  This type of control mechanism leaves a very negative imprint allowing for an ego to be developed that uses disappointment as a tool creating an internal state of fear, guilt and shame.  Disappointment has been used in many different forms to coerce, control and conform.  This ego tool has a det