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Weighed down

Posted on by philipdodson

When we allow the mind to sabotage, it builds up negative energy throughout the body, in every cell. It feels like we are carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. That’s true, the negative energy in our cells makes us sluggish.

Thoughts transfer into the physical body in the shape of emotions and chemicals.

So when we sit stuck in our mind, being dragged along by one thought after another, the same repeating ones that we have every single day, we are not aware of the build up in our physical body too of the heavy negative energy.

When we become conscious and the mind stream is silent and we are not energising it, then we feel physically lifted too. That’s why for example, doing a walk or some physical exercise brings us so much more than just fitness. A walk in the park or the woods allows us to become awake and away from the mind connected to nature and its stillness. This allows the mind to silence and to our mental and physical state to become positive energy. Our soul, mind and body are recharged.

When we let go of thoughts, our creative energy from our soul shines through, there is room for positive things and this again frees us from the chemicals in the body from all the negative emotion that thought creates.

We alone have the choice of whether or not to take our thoughts seriously or not, to be weighed down by them, to suffer from them or to let them be and focus our energy on the moment.

The loop of life

Posted on by philipdodson

For a long time now, life for many has followed a predictable pattern and the industrialised system has sold us the ‘journey’ and in reward for going along, we get trinkets for our services, which we then spend back into the system to buy the lifestyle they system sold us.

It’s a ‘loop of life’ from birth to death and if we have children, they start another loop of the same journey and so on. It ‘s self-perpetuating.

We can, of course, be ‘happy’ following this loop, well, often what we believe is happiness. It is more likely to be on surface as we are fearful of not fitting in, so we pretend we are happy.

We are conditioned for this ‘loop’ from birth, into early years by our parents, who have already been fully conditioned, then by school and then work and wider society. We follow the path fearful of stepping out of the loop.

The conditioning leads us into a loop that is dominated by unconsciousness, deep in thought within our minds, driven by fear, and as the conditioning is very ego driven, it leads to a great deal of comparison, judgement, criticism and suffering internally and externally.

The loop is there, we are all aware of it, and yet we happily enrol on the journey, fearing there is no choice and, of course, it ‘gets better’ as everyone tells you.

It takes bravery and consciousness to step out of the loop, to break free and to unlearn our conditioning. We have to be prepared to be vulnerable and to enter the wilderness, to be on the edge, to be alone. Yet when we do this, when become who we truly are, instead of pretending and following the loop, we experience true joy rather than the shallowness that a new car, or a bar of chocolate or more trinkets will bring us on the loop. We free ourselves from suffering of the mind and the ego and we then step out on a journey where we can be what our soul wants to be…our true-self.