ENEMY MIND?

Terrific Tuesday everyone! When choosing to focus deliberately on a new and improved life it's only natural that your own wounded mind [ego] will fight to survive by clinging on to it's old patterns of thinking, thus resulting in the same old habitual habits/behaviors it has been conditioned to. A lot of spiritual and religious practices/ideas teach that the ego mind is the enemy and should be treated as such, that it must be ''eliminated'' to live a more peaceful, harmonious, and balanced life, this seems a bit too extreme for me, and although I'm not striving for that ''perfect enlightenment'' or becoming the monk on the mountain top, I do agree to some degree, that there is work to do when dealing with the wounded mind, but my idea is to get the wounded mind/ego on board with our positive intentions, not fight against it, that's a futile approach, given that my own past thinking and behaviors, as well as the unwanted circumstances resulted, have created my own wounded mind. The more logical approach would be to reprogram the wounded mind, first of course dissolving the limited beliefs and imprinting new beliefs that resonate more with the positive changes you wish to make. Why fight against your own mind?, even if it does not yet agree with your newfound thinking it will take time for it to adjust to it's new environment/programming. Of course it will fight and cling to what it's always known, but the more you resist the mind's resistance the more the wounded mind will persist. This requires a gentle self loving, self forgiveness approach, as well as a whole lot of letting go, and two more things, time and patience. Your ego mind is a part of you, it is not your enemy, it's YOU protecting YOU from the unknown, it has been conditioned by societies ideas of struggle, lack, and limitation, it has been programmed to ''play it safe'' and not take risks, it only knows what's inside of the box, not outside of the box, It is no more guilty of protecting you than your own mother protects you in a harsh neighborhood, before you board the bus for school. I believe that our ego serves a purpose, and in my own experience my ego is beginning to get on board with my intentions, I can't phase it out because that is where my desires were born, of course there is still room for improvement in the role desire plays in the ego mind, because my deepest desires have moved into the heart, it's just that now there are beginning to be signs of harmony between the ego mind and the heart, I just don't see personally, how the ego can be left out of desire, that to me seems to be the purpose of ego, to constantly desire through the contrast. There would be some however, that would disagree with this idea and it's understandable, but personally speaking I love every aspect of myself including my ego, this is because I'm beginning to ''tame'' it if you will, by allowing it to throw it's tantrums without judgment, which enables it's old programming to dissolve and run it's course in it's own time, and at the same time instilling positive beliefs to replace the dissolving negative beliefs, it's a gentle approach known as allowing. You could liken my approach to that of breaking a wild horse, but in a more gentle fashion, of course I'm still a work in progress, so I'll keep this updated as I progress, should be interesting!