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Awareness and action

Posted on by philipdodson

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Awareness gives us the knowledge necessary to turn away from the myths that are created. Dangerous myths that lead to injustice, war, slavery, abuse, and many other wrongs that happen to humans, animals and the planet.

They are being created now and are there for all of us to question if we choose.

Be curious, learn, question and become aware of alternatives to what we have been lead to believe.

Awareness is vital, however, without action it is of little value.

Once you have new knowledge that dispels the myths, changes your views, only when we act upon that does change happen.

Fear, hate and judgement are the tools that the myth makers use to stop action by those who have become aware.They divide us and create causes for us to hate.

All the revolutionaries that have made change for the good, realised and became aware of what was wrong or needed to be changed and then acted in face of fear, hate, anger, ignorance and intolerance.

If you simply become aware and do nothing, then that is worse than the ones who follow the myths blindly in ignorance.

Frustration arrrrgggghhhh!!!

Posted on by philipdodson

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Frustration, apart from being a very addictive game, is a thing that we all suffer from. We get frustrated with ourselves, with situations, with others, sometimes we get to a point where everything frustrates us.

The feeling of being upset or annoyed as a result of being unable to change or achieve something.

Very often in the heat of frustration, we do not stop to think, we do not look at the solution, we keep going over the problem and keep re-enforcing the fact that we can’t seem to solve something.

Frustration is a reoccurring feeling caused by repeat behaviour and thinking.

The only way to break the pattern is to think differently and when a challenge comes up, is to learn to not try to solve it. We need to learn to be able to ask for help, we need to learn to drop our vulnerability shields, as Brene Brown talks about in ‘Daring Greatly’. We need to see it as an opportunity to learn, not a situation that makes us feel not good enough and weak.

We have to break the habit, so we have to act differently, we can learn to ask, learn to count to 10, we can learn to find out for ourselves what the solution might be. What we have to do is teach ourselves to walk away from the problem. Only by doing this do we break the cycle. Once we break that cycle, and that requires repeat behaviour many times over, we free ourselves from frustration and it’s negative effects on our self-confidence. Eventually, it is like autopilot and we learn to always pause before frustration comes in.

Learning something new is exciting, and it gives us a sense of fulfilment and achievement to learn how to solve something that previously only made us angry and frustrated.

Life is all about habits, and the good news is, we control every single habit and we can change pretty much every single one we have formed since birth. We are born without any, so we form all of them.

Frustration is a waste of time, learning is what makes life amazing.