Helping others become even better versions of themselves
The closer we get to the opposite, to the different, to strangers, then the more we understand.
If we only experience our ‘bubble’ of life, then we lack the ability to truly understand and empathise with another.
Much of the violence both physical and mental is created from a lack of understanding as we stay within our echo-chambers and become fuelled with hate for anything different.
If we embrace differences we grow more together and become less disconnected and less fearful.
The biggest challenge we all face is letting go so that we do the things we really want to do.
We are tricked by our mind and its sabotage that it is easier to walk away from truly letting go and to stay in the safety of where we are.
The challenge is that this only causes us more turmoil and longer-term it becomes harder and harder.
We resist the things we fear the most, as the mind creates the fear and the further it is from what it sees as safety the more psychological fear it will create. We do not fear what we do not want or desire, we do not fear something that we are not interested in doing, or experiencing.
Yet this is the guide, fear is the guide, because safety is suffering and the mind and risk is living, is experiencing, is joy, is jumping off the diving board, and being truly ourselves.
Philip Dodson 