Tag: judgement

Why did I stop writing?

Posted on by philipdodson

I used to blog every single day for literally 6 years or more. Then in March this year, after a few months of struggling to write every day, I stopped completely. It’s been a long time now since I have blogged, the longest break in all my years of writing.

Why did I stop writing?

I told myself nonsense. I listened to the mind and all its sabotage. I choose to allow myself to believe the stories that I have been making up all my life. I said ‘What’s the point?’ and stuff like ‘it’s rubbish’ and ‘no one cares’.

To be honest, it doesn’t matter if nobody cares or it’s ‘rubbish’ as I realised a long time ago, I am actually writing for myself and if someone else benefits too, then great, but if not it really does not matter. I lost sight of that and my ego and mind became active again.

I started to listen and analyse everything which was present not just in my writing but also in my life. I had slipped heavily back into my unconscious mind and all its repeating mind streams.

I had slipped back to moaning, judging, complaining, and the stories of ‘poor little me’. All of this only leads to suffering and we seem to be completely OK with inflicting this upon ourselves on a daily basis.

Have I gone back to just being and floating on my cloud like Buddha? No…I was not there before. What’s different now is I am not kidding myself that I am there. When we create this persona that we are ‘spiritual’ or ‘enlightened’ or ‘transformed’ we are exactly not that and we have just replaced one self-image with another in our unconsciousness.

What I am now is free of the burden of pretending to be something I am not and that feels great and that’s why I am writing again.

Why do we need other people?

Posted on by philipdodson

We’re not meant to walk this journey alone, to be separate, to be always with ourselves and never be with others.

As humans we need the energy of other human souls, we need to be connected with their energy.

It does not mean that we have to be constantly surrounded by people, however, long periods of time without interaction is as bad as being always with people.

Like everything in life, it is a balance and there is the Yin and Yang to all things.

When we simply be with others, without any agenda, without seeking something, simply being in their presence and listening to them and learning from them, sharing stories, making each other laugh, bringing joy to one another, then we not only enrich ourselves but others too. We create something even better.

The more we find what brings us together and what we have in common, rather than what we believe in our minds will separate us, the more we create a stronger connection among us all and the more we grow in a positive way as humans.

Find other souls and enrich them and ourselves…don’t be always alone.