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Bringing fire into our lives

Posted on by philipdodson

When I m coaching and starting out on a journey with someone, I always get them to look first at what they love to do and what brings them joy. It should be the bedrock of our lives, our roots that ground us and allow us to dance in the wind and be flexible yet resilient.

The world knows when there is a fire within us or not. The world knows when our eyes are tired and when we are lacking a fizz, when the fire has gone out. 

Our soul is always a burning fire, however, over time it gets smothered by our minds, thoughts, and fears. We allow ourselves to become them instead of allowing our true essence to shine.

In order to relight the fire and show our true selves to the world and spread our light, we have to go back to our hearts and start to do the things that bring us joy.

I get them to take a large piece of paper and write down all the things that they love and bring them joy. This is where we get our why power from. When the fire is going out we struggle on by using our willpower, which the mind believes is all we need to be strong and tough. However, the batteries in the willpower run out and they run out very quickly when we are not connected with our hearts and our why power.

Why we do what we do is the hardest thing to answer if we are not connected to what we love and if we are not doing what we love, the fire will not be there and the world will see it,

The world is a reflection of us as we continually create what we put out, we manifest our reality. If there is a fire in our eyes and our soul is shining bright, we will attract what we give out. If there is no passion in our hearts and the fire is hidden then we will struggle to attract what we want.

Life is a short journey, let us live it from our hearts and give our fire and light to the world.

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.