For example, in the wound of rejection, the ego will look for any situation to validate how worthless it is, “See, I told you this would happen, nothing ever works out for me. Pathetic. I am so unlucky and worthless.” Judgement might complain, “God must be punishing me. I probably deserve this. This is what I get. Everything is against me. It’s their fault.” Or perhaps in the wound of inadequacy, it thinks, “No matter how hard I work, I never seem to get ahead. The more I want things, the more life shows me I can’t have it.”
