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Clearing the Way: Freeing the Mind of the Superego
The superego is one of the most powerful unconscious forces cluttering our minds and controlling much of what we think and feel. It is the author of our “shoulds,” a force that takes our historical conditioning—what we’ve learned, how our parents and the world responded to us, and other things from the past—and creates a set of rules that it uses to keep us in line.
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