Tag: thinking

Mind the gap

Posted on by philipdodson

The mind doesn’t like gaps. It needs a beginning, middle and end. If it doesn’t have it and doesn’t know the answer then it fills in the gaps.

It never fills in the gaps with positive stuff, it fills in the blanks with negative things based on the stories and judgments it’s already made up about others and situations.

Rather than actually finding out by asking another person or actually researching a specific situation, the mind makes up the story.

Then from this fantasy story made up in our heads we act and react stuck in our unconscious mind patterns.

Ask others, be curious and stay away from the repeating thoughts. The more present we are in this moment, the less our mind is filling in the blanks. The less we suffer from our own stories based on nothing.

Stay aware and mind the gap.

Seeing

Posted on by philipdodson

Other people are not what our mind wants us to believe.

When we see others through the filters and judgements of our mind, then we do not see them at all, we see only what’s in our mind.

Then we act or form further beliefs and judgments based on the story playing in our own head.

If we choose not to be absorbed by our thoughts and we choose to be present, then we see others as they truly are and act from our true essence and not from biases.

Equally, we become our true self too, no longer dominated by our thoughts.

We are not our mind and others aren’t either. Stop the mind and start seeing.