Tag: digital world

It’s outside

Posted on by philipdodson

We invest so much time on apps, technology, media, digital work, and so little connecting with nature.

As humans we are the most disconnected from nature that any human being has been.

Interestingly, we have the worst mental health and we are the most addicted and discontented humans to roam the planet.

For example, we are more than 60 percent water as humans. We fully accept that the tides of the sea are caused by the energy of the moon. Perhaps, if we were more connected to the nature and less to the digital matrix we’d understand how the moon’s energy affects us.

If we ate according to the seasons we’d be healthier and so would the planet.

If we spent more time in nature simply being we’d be more conscious and have a healthier mind, body and spirit.

The answer isn’t looking into a screen…it’s outside.

Sitting by the fire

Posted on by philipdodson

When we step away from everything and take a moment to pause, we realise just how much we miss on a day-to-day basis stuck in front of our screens, whether it’s our Mac or our smartphone, we are consumed by digital images, text and videos. We are adrift in an artificial world that is a simple extension of our own egoic mind, often seeking what we think we don’t have to be happy.

Take a moment by the lake, the sea, a river, in a park, in the garden, sit in front of the fire. Just listen, notice our breathing, notice smells, listen for sounds in the background. That background that contains the world, the real present moment world, is there always, it’s that we do not notice it.

Sitting by the fire is good for the soul, good for realising that life is a conscious moment now, that lasts forever. When we appreciate now our suffering subsides and our joy and peacefulness grows.