The Green Platform Chapter One
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THE GREEN AND RED PLATFORMS<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ego allows us to think that we can be happy – but only<br />
somewhere way down the line. It never, ever will help or enable<br />
you to be happy in the here and now.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ego is a very important player in all our lives. And if we<br />
don’t wake up and realise the damage it is doing to us on an hourly,<br />
daily and weekly basis, he (we’ll call him “he” for handiness sake)<br />
will continue to be the orchestrator of our worries, fears, sadness<br />
and real suffering.<br />
Like all forces of darkness, the Ego is manipulative, clever and<br />
persuasive, particularly if you don’t stand up to him by the simple<br />
act of bringing awareness to recognise his underhand activities.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ego invites you to step onto the Red <strong>Platform</strong> by reminding<br />
you of the mess you made in work yesterday or the way your<br />
boyfriend or girlfriend is fed up with your behaviour. Once the Ego<br />
gets you on the Red <strong>Platform</strong>, he has you snared.<br />
Expertly, he will then go to work by filling your past with<br />
shame, anger or guilt. He is equally happy to project you into the<br />
future where he will highlight your areas of worry, fear and<br />
anxiety about financial problems or personal relationships or<br />
whatever area he perceives to be a weakness in your attitude.<br />
Imagine you are driving to work or on the train or on the bus<br />
or maybe you are just in the kitchen and this invisible hand of<br />
unhappiness is prompting you to bring resistance and nonacceptance<br />
to your life as it is now.<br />
Before you know it, the Ego has you making up imaginary fights<br />
with your boss, your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife or<br />
partner. Once you’re on that Red <strong>Platform</strong>, he is winning and knows<br />
his job will be easy for the rest of the day. <strong>The</strong> Ego is one of the few<br />
who is happy when he sees Red. He is at his happiest when you are<br />
at your unhappiest.<br />
He will prompt you with whispers of: “My boss is always<br />
picking on me,” or: “I do everything around here,” and without your<br />
knowing it, you are winding yourself up at a rate of knots. Tense,<br />
unhappy, wearing a scowl on your face. He is a grievance looking<br />
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