Tag: the mind

January the 1st won’t save us

Posted on by philipdodson

Welcome 2024!!

A new start? A day to resurrect of lives and take action?

Interesting how we almost wait for the date to change in order to spur ourselves into action.

Often though, we go from not doing the things we feel we should to a state of frenzied activity only for that to fade away very quickly. The tsunami of new tasks we take on just because it is a new year exhausts us within a few weeks.

Change can only ever take place now, in this moment, so the date on the calendar is irrelevant.

Also, effective changes are only successful one small step at a time. Once we get to trying to take giant leaps, we fail, because the mind, and all its future projections brings psychological fear which paralyses us into inaction.

If allow ourselves to be present and away from the mind, then we won’t have these ups and downs in action bought about by a change of date.

January the 1st isn’t our saviour…now is.

Something you can do for 3 minutes a day that will add years to your life

Posted on by philipdodson

A life on autopilot.

This is what will all do.

99% of what we do, say etc is all unconscious habitual behaviour. We perhaps only experience 1% of our existence/life consciously aware of the real life moment that is now.

The rest we spend in our heads, in our mind. Often suffering psychological fear from our projections into the fantasy that is the future.

Imagine if we became more conscious for just another 5% of our life?

That would equate to 1,496 days or 4.1 years based on an average life expectancy of 82 years.

4 years of being conscious, 4 years of seeing, feeling, experiencing and just being awake in this moment now. Actually experiencing real life rather than stuck in unconscious thoughts and habitual behaviours.

Imagine how life could change radically.

We have one existence in this current physical carnation, beyond that no one knows. Why not spend as much of it as possible being aware and actually in this moment enjoying real life.

That’s 5% less screen time, 5% less thinking of past and future, 5% less of autopilot and so on. Just a small change on a daily basis.

On a daily basis that’s just 3 minutes of consciousness an hour that will give us 4 years extra of real life ‘now’ moment conscious experience.

Also, 4 years less of suffering from our mind and its endless repeating thought patterns.

3 minutes a day for an extra four years of life.

Or we could add more each day, step by step to a more conscious existence. As always it’s our choice.