Our dissatisfaction with life has caused us all amount of problems. From reaching for food when not hungry – leading to disease, obesity, etc. to channel hopping (numbing the brain), to drugs and alcohol, to physical and emotional abuse, to domestic violence.
Life happens to us rather than we take charge of our own lives.
Even while I write this I have eaten two things and I am not really hungry. Suffice they are healthy – pear and avocado.
Realising you are dissatisfied with life is one thing. Knowing how to deal with it is quite another thing.
In the western world most of us are born into a world in which we are beholden to money for everything. A world that tells us that money isn’t that easy to come by and that we should be grateful for the small amount we do manage to raise through our time given up to the public or private sector. The majority of the population are here. Some of us run our own businesses and manage to earn a little more than the majority but still somehow it feels a bit of slog.
The system is set up to make it so. It makes us sign up to values and beliefs that put a 9-5 working week as priority. Everything is set up to promote this and to appear that life is easier if you uphold this value system.
What I mean by this is that if you don’t have a J.O.B, where you are paid weekly or monthly – you cannot meet the bills which come every month without fail, and if you do fail in meeting those bills particularly a mortgage or a council tax, you receive threatening letters which play on your psychology and send you spiralling into mind mangle. I know I have been there.
If we sign up to these values then not having money, not being able to ‘pay your way’ makes you feel like a failure, you become in debt and because you value money your life begins to have no meaning. Who knows where this will take you.
This may lead to anxiety, depression – it starts at a low level but can rise to a moderate and more serious level of mental health issues.
Because of the problems, to numb it out you start eating more, watching more rubbish on television, turning to external things to seemingly prop you up in the hope of making you feel better internally.
It never works because this is not a solution and doesn’t have a lasting effect.
The only way is to build a resilient mind. To work on the self – to evolve, to grow. To understand what is truly important in life. What will transport us to a higher realm, to become, to move towards enlightenment.
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