Coffin Time for Ego

Metaphorical Narrative

The ego stands in a bakery, proudly laying out trays of muffins. Each muffin is a thought, a feeling, a distraction — fresh out of the oven and begging for a bite. But you’re not here for breakfast. You’re holding a hammer and nails, sealing the lid on a coffin. The ego keeps offering, keeps waving its pastries, but you don’t touch them. You’re building something final: an end to its games.

Core Insight

Automatic thoughts and feelings are like baked goods on an endless conveyor belt — they come whether you want them or not. The mistake is assuming each one requires tasting. Most dissolve if left untouched. The ego wants to make every passing sensation into a meal, but its strategy has always been sabotage: distraction disguised as nourishment.

Identity Shift Tie-In

You don’t eat what ego serves. You bury it. By consciously starving the muffins, you confirm the sovereign fact: attention is yours to direct. The coffin is not morbid; it is a boundary. It marks the end of giving ego airtime and the beginning of living by chosen action.

Saturday Experiment

For 24 hours, your executive function, not your ego, decides what gets attention.

• When automatic thoughts or feelings arise, you do not treat them as signals. They are background noise.
• Each time they appear, acknowledge: “This is not my direction.”
• Return your focus to one pre-decided task in your calendar. That task, chosen consciously, is your anchor.

Sunday Reflection

• Where did ego try hardest to feed you muffins?
• What changed when you gave those thoughts no attention?
• How did your chosen actions feel compared to ego’s distractions?