Tag: thoughts

Filters

Posted on by philipdodson

When we make assumptions about situations or people, we create filters that block us from seeing situations and people in any other way than the filter we created about them.

This only then reinforces these falsehoods that we have created based on absolutely nothing other than our mind’s fantasies. The mind likes to have the beginning, middle and end of everything and when it only has bits of the story it fills in the gaps. However, it never fills the gaps with positive thoughts and assumptions, only fear-based negative assumptions.

The better option is to be curious and ask people what they mean or feel. Observe situations and resist the temptation to make judgements. Don’t fill in the blanks and stop the suffering. This removes the filters and then we can see situations and people as they are not as we have believed them to be.

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.