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Our moods can change like the weather. At one moment we lothe company, and at another we love it. At times it can feel like all we want is solitude, yet when we see a friendly face the desire for loneliness subsides. What is this shifting of the mind? What makes our feelings change in such ways? This post explores this. Love Love. All you need is love. When we have love we are in the moment, present and blissful. Worry subsides, desire leaves us and we relish in the moment of love. When we lose site of love, issues start to arise. This is the basis of all turbulence and trauma. Lack of love leads us down a path that can often be filled with collisions and hooks that shape our world and how we act. The desire or lack of desire to be in company or solitude arises from this. When we receive love from another, we can feel a sense of purpose. This purpose makes us feel good, wanted and valued. A friendly face may chance our mood, as we feel our life is a little easier with a shoulder to bolster us. That being said, relying on someone to lift us up can be a downward slope. Expectations When we expect something, we never receive what we expect. It will either be less than what we expected, or more. When we place expectations on a person to change how we feel, we are putting enormous pressure on the individual. I’ve seen or heard that the solution of so many broken relationships, is to have a child. The child will undoubtedly show unconditional love for their parents. This may temporarily disguse the lack of love they were experiencing in the relationship, though it will not cure the root of the cause. Being in company doesn’t mean that that company is responsible for your happiness or welfare. You are responsible for how you feel and are the only person capable of changing how you feel, nobody else can do this. Solitude So why is it that sometime we feel like the loneliest person on the planet and we seek solitude from people? For me, this is when self relection is needed. Sometimes we just need to surrender to the moment. Acknowledge that we are feeling this way or that way, and be with it. Resistance just creates more tension. It’s OK to feel low. When we recognise this, we can begin to look at what has made us feel this way (although it’s not always easy). Being alone gives us space and removes influence from others. By allowing time to explore and be with these feelings, rather than attached ourselves to them, gives us perspective. We may not understand what is happening within ourselves at first, this is why time and patience is key. Giving ourselves time to just be with the feelings, will help us understand them on our level. No book, teacher or therapist can tell you how you feel. That gift is your own. With patience in place, we can allow what needs to happen to happen, to happen as opposed to burying it. Find yourself a quiet space, give yourself as much time as you need, and observe the mind in quiet meditation. Here are a few recordings, should you wish for some guidance. Influence What we expose ourselves to has a direct impact on how we feel. If we continuously watch violence, live in fear and continue to hate this or that, then we will experience this in our lives. If instead we live in mindfulness, give ourselves time to digest our experiences (by meditating) and avoid violence of all sorts, then our world will be as so. I realise this is not always possible due to our situations and environments. These things we cannot always change. With that said, we can change ourselves and how we wish to see the world, is the way we should act in the world. There are those that want violence and again, that is through lack of love. Their belief is that because no love was shown to them, then no love should be shown to others. You should suffer as I have suffered. All this leads to is more suffering. In order to remove suffering we must live with awareness of the consequences of our actions. The people we associate ourselves too, should be uplifting as we should uplift them. A mutual and balanced relationship will flourish. If there is a lack of distrust, worry and fear, troubles will arise. This brings us back to our subject matter question of why do our feelings switch so frequently in some of us. Just look at how you live and how you are within yourself. By living a steady and balanced life will encourage balance around you. The space around you will be balanced and the people will be so too. This doesn’t mean your mind won’t switch, it just means you’ll become more aware of when it does and how to address it. Two’s company, three’s a crowd So by picking your friends, allowing time for yourself and being aware of your surroundings will have a big impact of whether you wish to be in the company of others or alone. It’s also worth noticing if you are in the company of thieves, of those who drain your energies. By spending time with those kind of people, might leave you depleted and torn between company or solitude. At the end of the day, there’s nothing wrong with turning down company or relishing in it. The choice is always yours. Listen to the body, open the heart and allow truthfulness to flow.  If you have any thoughts or comments on this post, please either comment below or get in contact with us. Alternatively, if you are enjoying our posts, you can sign-up to our newsletter. Thanks for reading.

With so much information available to us today, how do we know what is knowledge and what is nonsense? What is true and what is false? What is useful and what can be disregarded? The Mind Our mind acts as a super computer. It processes, stores and calculates everything we absorb through the senses. Many of us bombard it on a daily bases. We fill it with new feeds, social media, hearsay and various experiences that come our way. The mind needs time and space to process this information and these experiences. We do not usually allow it this time. What we expose ourselves to evidentially becomes our world and the way we see the world. With this in mind, we can begin to understand what is knowledge and what is nonsense. What can truly help us, or what is simply useless information filling up the storage banks of the mind. We can also begin to understand why things are a certain way and why people act in certain ways. Is it helpful?  A question we might ask ourselves is, is this information helpful? Many of us dwell on the past, watch history documentaries, read books about the ancients and study how things used to be. The past is there for us to learn not to make the same mistakes again. This is a key point which many past lookers seem to miss. If something interests you and resonates with you deeply, then by all means go deep into it. The question perhaps we should be asking is, how can I use what I’m learning to better myself and the lives of those around me? Perhaps this is what some people are searching for, a way to help humanity in the present by using the past. Perhaps some are looking to make their statement on this planet by becoming the founder of this or that. More knowledge, more power It is a common belief that more knowledge means more power. Let us look at the atom bomb for example. In this instance, this is true. J. Robert Oppenheimer had the knowledge to create a weapon that was capable of mass destruction. His knowledge killed thousands of people. In the eyes of many, this is perhaps knowledge that should have been discarded. The information he possessed, should have perhaps been concealed within his own mind for the benefit of others. Alas, ego took control and the need to be recognised was present at the expense of so many lives. A wise person may have perhaps kept this information to themselves. If it worked in the past, it will always work. Just because something worked in the past, doesn’t mean it works now. So many have stubborn beliefs that because it was done this way or that way in the past by their ancestors, it must be done the same way. Tradition or culture are words that are causing so much damage. Because of culture animals a slain and eaten, because of tradition wars a waged, countries divided and love lost or separated. The way we farm, for example, is so detrimental to the soil and to the planet. For centuries we have tilled soil on a mass scale. This was a means to an end in order to feed large groups of people. Now we have the knowledge to farm without tilling, damaging the soil and causing global warming. Methods have been tried and tested to produce more crops, better quality food without chemicals and with the potential for more work opportunities. For more information on desertification, please check out Kiss The Ground or Conscious Planet. Now we can look at the information from the past and present and determine whether the things we believed in before are know knowledge or nonsense. You can decide. More nonsense There is also a lot of nonsense when it comes to diet, nutrition and how we are meant to look after ourselves in general (more about these topics coming soon). We are conditioned to think and behave in a certain why, to believe that what is unnatural is natural. We are allowing ourselves to be conditioned in such a way that we’re unable to think for ourselves, we simply act on impulse without mindful consideration. Many people have unfortunately become so filled with nonsense, that they believe themselves and their desires to be above everything else. This is when we and the world we live in becomes unbalanced. Action and consequence If we look at the potential results of our actions, we can see clearly what the possibilities maybe due to our actions. An attitude has plagued us, that someone else will do it or worry about it. Living in such an unconscious way can only bring about destruction of not only ourselves, but of the world as we know it. I heard it on the tv/radio, so it must be true! The media is there to entertain you. I’m told by my grandmother that there was a time when the TV only had one channel. At times this channel would display the news and something there would be no news! We cover everything nowadays, from lost kittens to mass killings. We are fed love, death, creation and destruction on an almost alarming rate. What does this teach us? Is it helpful? Are we addicted to the drama? We can only be sure of the truth, if we experience it and understand ourselves. No matter how hard someone tries to describe the colour orange to a blind person, they will never fully understand what it is like unless they themselves experience it. By doing our own research and looking at both sides of the coin, we can begin to get the complete picture and make up our own minds. The bottom line This is a topic I could explore in great detail, as there is much to be said about it. However, for the purpose of this post and to keep things short enough