Tag: Health

Let’s get this revolution well and truly going.

Posted on by philipdodson

You see previously if you wanted to change the system, you had to be prepared to take up arms and you needed to have a lot of muscle, money and influence.

revolution - Philip Dodson

Now there is no need for a musket or £millions, you still need influence though. That’s what is great about today’s connected world, is that if you have the right message that others what to align to or they share the same values and desires, then you can connect with them online through social media and blogs etc.

So the need to make change happen by force is now redundant, you can make the change by spreading the message to your followers. The following will increase if enough people like the message and want to spread it to others for you.It takes time, unless you’re a celebrity, but if you want to do your bit to help change happen then you have to put the work in.

There are a growing number of people worldwide, who have (as I blogged about before) discovered, that we have all been fed a ‘crock of shit’. That the top 1%, who have all the money and power, are screwing all of us over and that inequality gap is growing wider and wider at an alarming rate.

There are a growing number of us fed up by being taken for a ride and are fed up with the ‘old school’ system, that has ruined the world and is still continuing to take it further and further down, for the benefit of a tiny, tiny select few.

Our freedoms are gradually being further and further eroded, especially as the establishment see the threat that social media and internet is becoming to their cushy little tea party,

What is happening with virtual currencies, the sharing economy, the likes of people such as Russell Brand and many others, who are now openly challenging the established world order, is that there is momentum growing, more and more people are start to look at things differently.

The current world order is driven by consumerism, by fear, by scarcity, by money, by profits, by anything but people. More and more of us now have grown tired of that and we now want to see a world based on communities, on helping others, on putting people first.

This is what is one of the driving forces behind the self-employment revolution and the rise of the sharing economy, coworking and social enterprise.

We are standing at the edge of the abyss, we are at a fork in the road for humanity.

It is time to tear down that world that has kept all of working as slaves to the system, so that top 1% can keep themselves at the top.

Most people will just work to scrape by in life, there is no more cheap food, no more cheap utilities, the scarcity economy has seen to that. So most people earn enough to survive, now relatively compared to billions in developed nations, most of us are doing OK. But increasingly all we are doing is to work all hours to then spend all our money on materials and just consume.

This is what the system wants us to do, keep consuming, buying shit we really don’t need. The endless pressure on all of us is relentless and if you haven’t got the latest this and that, then you’re a loser.

So it is time to stop this and time to start spreading the word and to stop consuming, stop worshipping money, stop work for others in shitty jobs that we hate.

It is time to stand up to all of this, stop buying your food at Tesco’s, stop buying Starbucks who never pay tax, stop eating junk food and processed food that is full of sugar and salt, which is going to turn out to be a bigger killer than tobacco.

It is predicted now that the younger generations will now for the first time have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

By 2050 1/3 of the US will be diabetic, yet we are feeding ourselves sugary crap on a daily basis and governments go hand in hand with giant food corps the world over to promote it.

There is still people clamouring for cigarettes to be outlawed etc, forget that, heart, diabetes, and circulatory diseases will dwarf that.

There is a globally epidemic relating to health, there is a global widening of the wealth inequality, the is worsening health, there is a rising population with dwindling resources.

There are now people being arrested in the US who feed homeless people because businesses see homeless people like litter and that they have a detrimental effect on the their business and profits.

So if you are sick of the way the world is run, don’t wait for it to change, start connecting with others on social media, influence friends, write blogs, share other peoples stuff. Take ownership, stop buying stuff you don’t really need, share and help others. Stop supporting the party political system regardless of their ‘flavour’ – they are all only there to serve themsleves, stay in power and do what their narrow base of financial supporters want.

If like me you have had enough of the old school world, then let’s start the revolution now.

My mind gym

Posted on by philipdodson

This is my mind gym, 750Words.com, I love this 20-25 minutes each day, sometimes it’s good enough to release on the world via my blog and sometimes it is just private thoughts and ramblings, which would only make interesting reading to me or disturbed people.

So these 20 minutes that I write my 750 words each day is firstly a great discipline and more importantly, it is a place that I can exercise my brain.

This is an area that very few, me included until very recently, focus on. We all think about what we eat and what exercise we could be doing or are actually doing.

There is a lot of focus on physical exercise and that is very important to our health. However, the exercising of the mind is important to our mental and physical well being.

Our minds control everything that happens in our lives and it determines whether we are healthy or not physically.

Many illnesses, some of the most chronic, are result of stresses in our lives. These stresses are caused by a number of factors, however, it is our mind that determines how we deal with these stresses and determines what effect these stresses have on our physically health.

For me it is important to put down in writing a review of what happened during the day and to put down what my thoughts were. To write about my reactions to events that happened.

It’s important, as it allows me to think about the situations and learn where I could have dealt with situations to get a better outcome in the future.

Often, our lives just go by without us realising and certainly without pausing to take stock of things that have occurred.

So doing this writing everyday allows me to press the pause button in my head and to scan back over the day to take stock and think about things.

The other thing that this writing is good for, is to celebrate my successes for the day and to think about my goals and what I could do the next day to get closer to them.

Some people have no goals and certainly none that are ever put in writing. Others spend so much time planning and writing goals and targets, that they actually forget the doing part.

A review of my progress is important to me and it allows me to continue the focus. It is important to feel that you are moving forward to towards your goals. It is important to recognise progress and give yourself a pat on the back for your achievements.

I never use this to beat myself up, although I do use this sometimes to deal with things that are preying on my mind.

I pick a particular worry/concern and write down what it is. I then think of all the worst possible outcomes, then say ‘so if that happens…then what next?’. I repeat this for each outcome and keep going ‘so if x happens, then this will be next and then this’. Eventually the process leads to the fact that you can deal with every outcome, however bad you can imagine it to be.

Then you realise, having actually put them down in writing, when you read them back through, nearly all of the outcomes lead to nothing that you can’t handle and I often laugh at how silly 99% of them seem on reflection.

The other exercise I do at my mind gym, is to write down the things that I am grateful for and the positive thoughts that I have had that day.

So it is not all about exercising the gremlins, demons and worries. It is also about writing and reminding myself of the good things that are going on each day.

So this mind gym that I do each day has a number of exercises that I do and that enables me to keep my mind super fit and healthy. So if you don’t have a membership to a mind gym, I strongly recommend getting one.

I go for a family walk nearly every evening for 3 miles or so, which gives me a chance to spend family time combined with physical exercise. After that it’s off to the mind gym.

Since the 1st September, this has become the most important thing to me on a daily basis, it clears my head, recharges my brain, helps me to express my thoughts more precisely, helps me reduce worry, helps relieve stress and gives me a real confidence boost.