Tag: action

Stone in the shoe

Posted on by philipdodson

Deny things is a simple resistance to what is and will cause inner suffering, mental and thereafter, physical too. Like continuing to walk with a stone in our shoe, hoping that it might just go away. Denying that it’s there brings pain.

Acceptance of the stone in the shoe, what is, allows us to simply deal with it now, or not deal with it as that’s a choice too, but we end the suffering in the mind as we’ve accepted that it’s there. We do not hide from what is occurring now or in almost all cases, what has already occurred and therefore we are unable to change no matter how much we want to.

The only time we can actually deal with anything is now. Anything other than that simple acceptance is mental suffering and in the case of the stone in the shoe, physical as well, which interestingly always comes after mental suffering.

Don’t allow the future to creep in

Posted on by philipdodson

That thing we fear doing and then finally we do it, how often do we then immediately realise it wasn’t that bad and what was there to fear?

The answer is…every single time because nothing is as bad as what we fear.

When the mind creates fear it is always the fear of something in the future, whether it’s in 10 minutes from now or a week.

The future is a construct in our mind and not real. So essentially we are fearing something that’s not real.

Once we can realise that our fear is based on nothing other than our thoughts, then we can more easily get over the initial hurdle of staring something.

The feeling of nothing to fear can start to be addictive and habit forming as long as we don’t allow the future to creep in.