Ian Dowling | Thinking out loud Ian Dowling

Getting braces on recently I realised that I didn't need to wait a year and a half to feel good about my teeth but I immediately started feeling good, more confidence smiling in the knowing that I have taken action and am on my way to my goal.

It was an important reminder to me how this is the same with starting all those big things we've been putting off such as saving money, starting exercising or anything that we keep putting off starting.

The feeling of progress from the first action is a pleasure worthy of action.


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"Awakening" at least for me is just the beginning, an exciting new beginning but a beginning none the less. Its easy to allow the ego to jump into the driver seat when we have some form of Spiritual awakening but its only an opportunity to start fresh and see the the world anew.




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We don't have to take our thoughts personally and hang on to them, just like the way we don't take music personally and hang on to it if we do not like it.


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You know that energy of water spinning when you stir water in a bucket? You know the way it pulls everything towards it, the center stay the center and the focus of energy pulls everything to the middle. Well what if the present moment is like that and all we need to do is focus so much on this moment that everything can be drawn towards this center. I don't mean sitting and not taking action but our thoughts being so focused here, now in this moment that our thought only change when a more important thought comes and we don't need to go against the flow looking for unnecessary thoughts.

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I love quotes and I thought I would start a serious of episodes where I discuss quotes I like. 

This week its a quote from Plato 

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

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I haven't made one of these Podcasts for a long time. I started doing Standup Comedy and my attention has been there but I want to start posting these ideas/brain dumps again as I feel like its important to share anything that could potentially be positive for even one person out there. 

The analogy of Surfing in relation to life I think is a good one because often the biggest question in my mind is whether we have control over our life or is the Universe/God of whatever you call the thing that created us in control. 

But when we look at life using the analogy of surfing it atleast for me makes more sense because when surfing we have no control over what the wave does or where it goes or when it comes but if we decide to take that wave we then have the choice of what  decisions we make on that wave, what move or turn we do etc. And if or when that wave smashes us we have the choice of being angry or upset or just shaking it off and paddling back out for the next one. Life seems to be like this if we except that opportunities come unexpectedly but when they come we then have the choice of how we respond to it.

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