The Sober Life

  So we are heading for the runway. It feels like time to leave. Yet if we leave now without exploring the island I have a feeling we will end up here time after time. We need to venture into the heart of darkness. Lets see what lies at the heart of Fuming Island. All our thoughts have some sort of positive or negative bias. Our consciousness has a bias that seems to notice the negative ones more than the positive ones. This gravitational pull towards negativity is spoken about by Eckart Tolle in The Power Of Now.  He describes “The Pain Body” as the search for more suffering by the same force that created the suffering in the first place. As it swells it grows in power. Anger is the build up of unreleased negative energy. Unreleased energy traps us in a place of opposition to the world. It is a defensive position that requires more and more recruits.  There are complicated emotional triggers and deeper feelings that are recruited. Until we learn to be conscious of the ac...