Letting Go Of Physical Egos

Recently I started reading a very powerful book that examines the human ego and how it affects our daily lives.

Having an ego I believe is something that we all have and can all control in our lives. Some individuals have a more powerful ego then others. Some like to prove to others that they are important, others boast, complain, argue, and fight which are all part of the egos way of winning. The “I am right and you are wrong” mentality is all too common in our society.

Other ways the ego controls the human form is through fitness and health. I have suffered through this for many years. I have connected my ego with being physically fit and healthy.

For almost a full decade I was a bodybuilder, and more to the point a “natural” bodybuilder. My ego was very strong and always wanted to point out that I was a “natural” athlete using no anabolic steroids.


The journey for me in fitness has changed from trying to build up my body to just enjoying the physical process of becoming more fit and vital.

I am learning to let go of my physical attributes and become more aware of my physical being, that being which is inside this vessel called a body.

It is still important to me to be physically active and I very much enjoy the process of working out, but I am in a transition period. I myself am leaving the ego dominated side of fitness and transitioning to a more spiritual side of working out.

After all we are all going to decay in the end, and it is important to realize that we are more then the flesh that we see through our eyes.

We all are spiritual beings with a higher inner and outer purpose.

For more information on the ego I recommend buying Eckhart Tolle’s Book “A New Earth”

At Achieve Fitness Canada we look forward to connecting you to your physical self.

To A Renewed sense of Health,

Trevor Folgering