Tag: consciousness

The conveyor belt

Posted on by philipdodson

One step at a time is all that life requires.

All too often our mind is already several steps, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and sometimes even years ahead of the moment we are in.

This results in us not even being conscious of the moment we are in.

The mind is perhaps looking forward to dinner or a date or a holiday (maybe not now!!) so the ‘ordinary’ moment is denied and not noticed. The trouble is, when we are at dinner or the date, instead of appreciating that moment, the mind has already moved on.

This process, if left uninterrupted, leads to a lifetime of never appreciating our real life that is now.

Our mind can become a conveyor belt that whisks us past our real life in a constant blur of thought.

Stop the conveyor and jump into this moment.

Flutter by

Posted on by philipdodson

Drip, drip, drip
Slowly like a snail
Invisible like a wisp
It comes, step by step
We do not see it

It meanders and skips
It sneaks up on us
It catches us unaware
It hides and pounces
It’s stealthy

Once we notice it
It lights up
When we respond to it
It grows
And grows

It grabs us
It drags us along
It is like a magnet
And more come
They join in

Soon we are dragged along
Soon we are bumping around
Soon we are engulfed in them
Soon we are plunge into the dark
Soon we are feeling fear

We can’t seem to escape
The darkness comes
We are feeling anxious
We are feeling frightened
We have become them

And then we pause
There is a light
It first is faint
Then it’s stronger
The light grows

We feel the light’s energy
We feel it’s strength
We feel it’s love
We know it’s real
We awaken and free ourselves

We become the light
And we realise
That all there was in the dark
Was our mind, it’s fear
We were grabbed by its thoughts

Now we know the light
We can say goodbye
We can let those thoughts
Flutter by
We are free