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There is a fashion now of going off grid, many
folk going into the wilderness to build log cabins use solar power and unique
solutions for energy and sustainability. Many are fed up with city life and
even village life and crave the quiet and nurture that nature provides. This
often brings a natural peace of mind.
These peaces of mind can it be the peace of mind
that says meditation and spiritual practices bring? I do not know.
What I am saying is can one go off grid
psychologically, mentally and still be sane and in the village or city?
This off grid to the media, the brain washing and
deadening of marketing, mortgages, TV, cell / mobile phones, fashion, trends,
fears by media and false flags and now everything digital and fake.
I cannot claim to have peace of mind or be off
grid to modern day collective consciousness but I have become more alert and
mindful to what stress and brain washing is about.
So I feel for me that I live almost in seclusion
and as a sort of self imposed hermit. I simplified eating, TV watching,
exercise craze, becoming less susceptible to advertising and raucous people and
hype and I suppose this is my way. Maybe younger and more flexible minds could
and do the same thing without the extremes I go too.
Of course to live in an apartment or even a rented
room is difficult with the price landlords demand and jobs hard to find and the
labour laws so austere and difficult to navigate. Perhaps one can realise the
benefit of simplicity and many may be driven to it and go off grid in their own
styles. Of course in the city or village this can cause stealing and other
cheating ways if the austerity is severe and the mentality to see this as a
bare mind brings peace and a stressed mind brings anxiety and fear and one
would react out of either state.
I have found that acting out of anxiety and fear
lessens or rather does not provide me with solutions of worth but leads me into
my past and its fears and the way I reacted. However rather that reacting which
is from the past should I be mindful and quieten the fear not by repression or
suppression or going into mind game fantasies but by deep breathing in a
relaxed and gentle manner more and then opportunities may arise and some seem spontaneous
and synchronistic perhaps one might refer to it as co incidental.
This quiet mind one might say is off grid to the
anxious mind, that mind also that is always in the background and not so in
your face so to speak, a silent drone in the background that is amplified when
certain trigger points set of the alarm bells into full blown panic.
In a way being off grid in nature if one has the
‘balls’ and courage to do it, once done is a task at first then the rewards
come when the set up and the new life is enjoyed.
Could one say that the constant bombardment of the
village and city (suburban life as well) can attain the same kind of inner
peace of course without the nature surrounding it, that the nature off
‘gridder’ has. Maybe peace of mind through meditation and not through accrued
wealth and position which when deprived of these may leave to extreme anxiety,
maybe through this coming to realise the aims of unshakeable inner peace, not
through will power but by the exposing of anxious and depleting old patterns of
thought and not replacing them with affirmations, prayer or mind blocks,
escapes through distractions and coming to a quiet rest be the same for off grid mentalities as well.
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