Many thinkers have preferred to call it self- consciousness.
Self-consciousness is nothing but the cause of ego and soon after it becomes a habit, the
ego takes over on one’s psyche.
Self-consciousness is the chain of thoughts that gets triggered when you
are not alone. Soon as you are in the company of another person, when there is someone in your
vicinity or in your thoughts, you become aware of yourself. You start seeing
yourself through the eyes, the action or the words of the other person or
through the way the person has responded to you or behaved with you. You now
start thinking, whatever you were thinking taking whoever pops up in your mind
into account. You now behave and do things taking into account how the person in your
vicinity will take on your action.
It happens to everyone and the neuro-process is so rapid that one
barely notices it happening within oneself, let alone accept this fact.
Over a lifetime, self-consciousness, which is a
process, or a system of processes in hundreds of thousands of cells, becomes a habit and renders one a slave to
this habit, without one’s knowing that it is this habit which has reduced the
unlimited capacity of human brain. All the thoughts in your mind are, hereafter,
either about people and what they think about you or will say about you or
about what you did or have to do while taking all the people you think are
involved (or even not involved but related to you) into consideration.
Continued rapid self consciousness helps in formation of ego, which may be likened to a neuro-highway; all thoughts and actions now take this path.
Now it is your ego that starts thinking for you with your logical and
rational self relegated into inactivity.
Ego is now your master and you are its slave rendering the unlimited potential of human life into a miserable journey full of suffering and pain.
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