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Observing

Posted on by philipdodson

Our ‘normal’ state as humans is a mind-filled unconscious state where we are not aware of the moment and are consumed by thoughts of the past and future, which is where the thinking mind spends all its time. We are stuck in the box of content that is the time-bound mind-created thing we see as our life.

We are concentrated on what is next or what has occurred and not consciously in the moment of what is actually happening now. It is not a state of observation, reflection, calm, joy or peace. It is a state of constant turmoil and suffering. We are in a fear-based operating system that affects our mental and physical state. We are on edge, anxious and in a constant adrenalin-fuelled condition of flight, fight or freeze.

If we change our state and observe our thoughts instead of energising and becoming them, we move from flight, fight, and freeze to calm and inner peace. We move into a conscious state of being rather than an unconscious state of thinking. We close the lid of the box of content.

Our true self is not our mind, it is the observer and when we become the observer then our true essence, which is us and is always there, has space to be. We create space for soulful creation to take place instead of no space other than constant thought.

When we become the observer, we are connected with our heart and soul, with our creative essence and love which enables us to be ourselves. When we are the thinker then we become connected to fear.

Lenses and labels

Posted on by philipdodson

The mind is a giant labelling gun that labels everything instantly, so much so, that in our unconsciousness, we do not even notice that it is happening. Then places the mind places lenses of filtering the world based on the label/judgement.

Try walking down the street or sitting in a room with others or even sitting in a room alone and not label things or people or what people say. Try not to judge or evaluate related to how it will affect us and our story.

The greatest form of intelligence is to observe without evaluation, and that means no judgement, no labelling…simply just observing and just being. This requires consciousness and detaching ourselves from the mind and its ego. We label everything through the judgemental lenses of our mind and once the lense is applied we only sense, see, feel, hear etc through that lense, so we do not actually see what is real, we see it through our mind’s lense.

The filters, labels and judgements of the mind can be removed by remaining conscious and by just being. Not feeling the need to evaluate everything.