Sadly, most of us have been reduced to ‘attention-starved individuals’ that parade our lives on social media platforms for the battle of recognition, status, respect and external validation - our photos, personal stories, emails, comments, memes, notifications, song choices, status, relationships, accomplishments, sexuality and all the rest. We are driven by a power beyond our conscious actions.
Our attention gets constantly pulled in, hacked and manipulated this never-ending stream of distraction by third-party advertising companies that monitor and program largely what we buy and do daily (algorithms/systematic behavioral modification). These companies need us to their apps glued or they don’t make money. Your attention is energy and currency.
Yet, our authentic self gets covered over (replaced by your very own false, online sim character/persona) as if we are too afraid to bear the thought of what others might think or say about us. We spend our time and energy to create and perfect the perception of what other people have of us. Most of the social media applications
that we immerse ourselves into are by design to be addictive: this is society's new substance abuse problem (the digital pacifier/slot machine). The more complicit we are to this augmented reality (modern day, technological Plato's Cave), the more we seek out external stimulation to tell us how to think, feel, behave and what to consume (WW1, WW2, WWW.).
Each and everyone of us are unique expressions of limitless potential and we all wield its creative potential because WE ARE IT. The only thing that limits and compromises our authentic selves is giving away our unlimited power over to self-limiting, pre-programmed identities, thoughts, beliefs and behaviors that take us out truly being here and now.
There is only one energy in the universe, it is called love; this eternal, unifying force of life can either be blocked or freed from within.
Why would anyone choose to hold onto negative thoughts or feelings that take them out of alignment with the boundless reservoir of their inner stillness, joy and peace? You get the experience that you are most focused on. If you are conditioned to accept negative or fear-based beliefs as truths; you will then gravitate towards perceiving and experiencing ‘everything’ through those distorted lenses (allowing things to affect you in a ‘negative way’).
