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Who’s driving your bus?

Posted on by philipdodson

If we want to see changes in our life, then we have to take different actions, right?

If we keep doing the same things, then, of course, we always end up with the same results.

However, is it as simple as just changing what we do? Why if it was this simple, do we still struggle to change what we do?

As always, we have to go back to the roots of everything. It all starts at the core, not on the surface.

This is how it works…what we do or don’t do, is a direct result of our state of being. So if our state of being is one of fear or anxiety or worry etc, then the actions we take/don’t take will reflect that. Then the actions will lead to outcomes and those outcomes then feed back into our state of being. Thus we go round and round the same circle. We will never be able to change what we do unless we change our state of being.

Wow!! simple, right? Well…erm, no.

We have to work out what creates our state of being in order to be able to change it.

What creates our state of being?

Imagine yourself as a bus. The bus is our body, inside the bus is our soul, the only you, the true essence. In order to be in the state of being that will allow us to manifest truly who we are, we have to be the driver. We are the only one who is qualified to drive our bus. The true ‘you’ needs to be in the driving seat always. Then the bus goes on the path and journey that our soul/true essence (you) wants to take and experience. We will be able to do what we really want to do as we are consciously driving our bus.

However, what happens is there is someone else on the bus…shit! That’s right, there is a passenger, and that is our mind/ego/thoughts. The ego creates its own story and then wants to drive the bus and the real you ends up in the passenger seat suffering as the ego is a bad driver.

The other bad news, the ego stops and lets on other passengers either passengers that it has created or ones that others have created for us. These passengers then become our beliefs. The passengers, once created by us or the ones we let on the bus, never leave. They become our beliefs.

The ego, lets them drive too, so the suffering increases and our life, the bus journey, becomes hijacked and the journey doesn’t go as we intended or want. Beliefs create thoughts which lead to our actions, which in turn, create the outcomes in the exterior world.

So if we want to change our state of being, we have to identify the passengers, put them back into their seats and then take our position in the driving seat. Then the actions we take will be the ones that we want to take and the journey will unfold as we want it to. Once you have shone a torch on the passengers you know how they are, even the ones that hide right under the seats!

This means being at peace with all that is, accepting our beliefs are there, accept the journey to now. We have to accept that once we go into the psychological time dimension of the future, looking at the map, then the passengers get back into the driving seat.

Similarly, if we go back to the past, as in start looking in the rearview mirror, then we end up allowing the passengers to direct us, we are looking back and not staying focused on driving the bus. We are no longer focused on the road right in front of us and then we take wrong turns or crash.

The only moment we can drive the bus is now, it is the ONLY time. Now is our life and when we fall in love with this moment and stop denying it or seeing it as a means to an end, then we drive and not the passengers.

A good way to stay focused on the driving is to see each action we do as equal, do not place greater value on one thing versus another, then we are not always seeking the next ‘big’ thing and that stops us from reading the map all the time and worrying and thinking, it keeps the passengers from sneaking back into the driving seat as we are conscious and paying attention.

The other thing to note is when the passengers, directed by our ego, drive the bus, they do not pay any attention to the maintenance of the bus (our physical body). In fact, they damage the bus with their bad driving.

They also crash into other buses driven by their passengers and that creates bad relationships with other buses.

Drive your bus…it’s the only way to get to the destination you want in life.

Why do we eat all the time?

Posted on by philipdodson

Why do we eat all the time?

Mr Kelloggs created for the whole of the world the concept that ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’. Funnily enough, I bet you your parents or your school teacher or somebody told you that. Even funnier, Mr Kelloggs sold breakfast cereal. I know, a shock.

We not only eat breakfast straight after waking up, normally, but we also have a mid-morning snack, that’s to keep us going, then we have lunch because it’s important not to skip meals, and then we have more snacks, to keep us perky and full of energy, just in case on a daily basis we are climbing a mountain or swimming the Atlantic ocean, then it’s dinner time, we might even on special occasions have pre-dinner snacks AKA as nibbles, then just before bed, in case we are back to more ocean swimming or mountaineering during the night, we’ll have some supper/snack or something.

The problem with this type of daily activity is manyfold, firstly, we tend to overeat, secondly, it’s costly, and thirdly our body works inefficiently as we are used to constantly receiving energy so the body only ever burns glucose and not our fat reserves and lastly, the planet suffers from our excessive consumption.

If we eat fewer meals in a smaller time window, of say 5-6 hours, we run our bodies leanly. This habit of eating has become fashionably known as ‘fasting’ as if we all are suddenly becoming religious and are starving ourselves.

If we look at other species on the planet, unless they are domesticated pets, they eat infrequently and tend to be lean, unless they carry excess fat in colder conditions or to survive hibernation over the winter. 

We do not need to eat often and we would be physically healthier for it. However, the machine that is the commercialised food industry has convinced us otherwise and if we really want to be healthier and save the planet, we’d be better off eating less and less often. It’s not fasting it is normal eating.