Tag: essence

Who hears the voice?

Posted on by philipdodson

Who hears the voice in the head? When your mind creates a mental form of a thought, who hears it?

You…the real essence, spirit, soul, being, you hear it. Yet we believe in our unconscious state that we are the mind, we are our thoughts. We are not, the mind is just a part of us, the same as our ear is or finger or heart. Yet, most people, for most of their lives live out the story in their minds, they believe they are their thoughts and self-made story and ego. The voice has become so compelling and as it there constantly, it becomes the norm and we become it.

Once you realise it is you who hears the voice in the head, then you realise that you are not your thoughts, you are a greater consciousness and intelligence beyond the mind. We are the observer, a higher consciousness, we are the essence of life.

To realise this, you simply have to be the silent witness to your thoughts and do not energise them. When a thought comes, just listen, do not respond, do not energise it and like any form it rises and then goes. Thoughts that are not energised dissolve and disappear. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them.

Once we realise this, then we are no longer dominated by our thoughts…we are free.

We are consciousness that is our pure essence.

The internal story and expectation

Posted on by philipdodson

Our internal story, the one the mind has crafted and added to all our lives, builds up expectation for us. The story demands a certain outcome, after all, I am this…or that…fill in the blanks as to what your mind tells you that you are.

We can have many roles, so one might be a mother, then later she becomes the boss, then at lunch she is the customer at the restaurant, and so on. All the different identities that we play, based on the mind’s perception of what role is appropriate at that time. We could also become the ‘victim’ or the ‘punisher’ or both.

The thing is all of them have an expectation and when the expected outcome does not come to fruition, which is very often, then there is disappointment and the bigger the expectation, naturally, the bigger the disappointment.

If we remain awake and conscious, away from the mind, and realise that we do not have to play multiple roles with different expected outcomes, and we only just have to be the real inner self, the one role, then life is not only much simpler, there is also peace and no disappointment.

Our real essence is wanting to just be, be the soul and spirit of the real you and me without the different facades and all their pain. Disappointment is the result of expectations.