Tag: Hate

Awareness and action

Posted on by philipdodson

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Awareness gives us the knowledge necessary to turn away from the myths that are created. Dangerous myths that lead to injustice, war, slavery, abuse, and many other wrongs that happen to humans, animals and the planet.

They are being created now and are there for all of us to question if we choose.

Be curious, learn, question and become aware of alternatives to what we have been lead to believe.

Awareness is vital, however, without action it is of little value.

Once you have new knowledge that dispels the myths, changes your views, only when we act upon that does change happen.

Fear, hate and judgement are the tools that the myth makers use to stop action by those who have become aware.They divide us and create causes for us to hate.

All the revolutionaries that have made change for the good, realised and became aware of what was wrong or needed to be changed and then acted in face of fear, hate, anger, ignorance and intolerance.

If you simply become aware and do nothing, then that is worse than the ones who follow the myths blindly in ignorance.

Reflection

Posted on by philipdodson

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I often talk about not over thinking, or analysing things too much. However, there is a need sometimes to pause for thought and some reflection.

In life, we face emotional situations at times. It could be someone’s actions or something they say to us or about us, that causes an initial reaction of hurt, or anger or other emotions.

This is normal to react this way initially and perfectly OK. It is OK to have emotions and to feel things like anger etc. However, if we react straight away based on those emotions, then we risk the wrong outcome.

Once we enter this emotional response mode, we engage the limbic brain often with a ‘win at all cost’ mentality. It becomes totally black and white, we often are seeking to inflict retribution.

The fact is, if you step away from the situation, give yourself some breathing space and take a moment to reflect, then you put yourself back in control of yourself. You are then likely to respond with clarity and not be clouded by emotion.

By doing that, the recipient is more likely to engage and respond in a similar manner instead of responding with anger or other emotions.

This does not mean that you are backing down or being weak, in fact in shows strength and shows that you are in control and not going skip to someone else’s tune.

Reflection can be a very powerful tool to regain control of your emotions.