Tag: drama

Turning our own news channel off

Posted on by philipdodson

About 10-12 years ago I stopped reading newspapers, watching the news on TV or listening to it on the radio. I cut myself off from the psychological fear machine that is mainstream media news. Whenever I have caught it nad been unable to avoid it immediately, it is the same shit different date. It is all stuff that we can not change as it has already happened and it is manipulated to leave us in a state of constant fear.

My life improved massively from doing that, I was no longer sucking in all that fear on a daily basis. It really helped me to focus on much more positive stuff and my blood pressure would have dropped considerably.

I then replaced that with social media and then started to receive the fear of the media machine again plus the fear of other people and their dramas and worries. Well, I’ve cut out a great deal of social media now too. I switched off the drama and I rarely scroll through it.

So life is great, right? No more news, no more fear?

Well, there is one more news channel pumping fear of the psychological kind that is THE most powerful and dominating more than any other ever created by others…that’s right, my own mind.

So I have been on a journey for the last 2 years to switch that off too. That has been the most rewarding and yet the most challenging as there is not a physical ‘off’ button as such.

However, we switch it off through consciousness and the realisation that the real you and I are beyond our minds and thought, we are not our minds. It comes with the realisation that the only time that life is real is now and that psychological fear lives in the future that our mind projects into constantly. The ego and its stories of little me create drama and fear, it is its existence and without it, then it is threatened.

Switching all ‘news’ off is the key to a peaceful existence, where we can live in the moment and enjoy all that has to offer. It takes time, it takes practice, but like all things the habit builds. Am I the Buddha? Am I floating on a cloud of presence? No. But each day I move a small step closer to that, and that’s all I can do, a small step further from mine and others’ ‘news’ and its inherent fears and suffering.

It will soon be over

Posted on by philipdodson

Soon it will be over…the drama, the fear, the division, we’ll be free again, safe and no more to worry about and then what? This is what every human says throughout all ages and events as if there will be no more drama.

It will be replaced by something else. That’s how the story goes, the mind and its ego. There will always be the next drama if we choose it.

There is a different choice though, we can live free of fear, drama, and all that goes with it. We can choose to be more present, live more now, in this moment, and away from our thoughts. We can choose to be conscious, aware and at peace. We can choose not to label something ‘bad’ or make endless judgements about situations and people.

It is the mind that thrives on fear and drama, if there isn’t any, it will create it, similar to the collective mind. The collective mind is the sum of all the individual minds attached to it and one feeds the other in a constant cycle. The only way to break free is to disconnect from it, that’s the collective mind and our own.

We hold out so much hope for an end to something, believing it will bring us joy and happiness, however, if you are not joyful and happy now, then you will not be when something you perceive as bad ends.

It is all within us, it is all a choice. It seems hard and difficult, but that is the mind sabotaging us, all we need to focus on is just now, this moment, and not to over-complicate it with thoughts of sustaining it or whether or not you are doing it right.

Now, simplicity, peace.