Welcome to the Real World
I can’t stop thinking about the scene from the Matrix where Neo gets unplugged from the system.
He wakes up and realises that his body had been feeding machines.
For some reason, it keeps me looking at my own patterns of directing some of the strongest energy I possess willingly to an external source.
No, it’s not my physical energy, because sure, I can run a little but that energy is limited.
I have unlimited energy in the form on consciousness. If I’m alive, it’s there.
Consciousness:
“Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives"
We have two levels of consciousness - the subconscious which keeps us operating 95% of the time without our involvement and the conscious mind where creativity and critical thinking occurs, but it requires hyper presence to be activated which many find very difficult and choose not to pursue to work for it.
The more access I have received to the online world, the more I’ve seen myself plug into that virtual reality.
At one point my mind was constantly occupied with the online version of myself. Every thought I had was about how to get my message out there, what the caption would be, what instastories I would post, what videos I would create, how to get more eyes on me. I even dreamt about this virtual world.
My mood was 100% dictated by my online world. If it was performing well, I would be happy, if it wasn’t, I would be a horrible person to be around.
I don’t ever remember a stage of my life where I was more asleep then during this time.
I’m very grateful I somehow snapped out of it. I’m still trying to pin point what the exact moment was that released me, but it’s been a 2 year recovery from that daze.
And then I realise that I was one of the lucky ones. Not only because I snapped out of my virtual persona, but I also did grow up in a world without internet and social media (Facebook started growing in popularity when I was 18), versus now, a world where phone usage of 8 hours daily is acceptable.
How many teens and children now are plugged in from an incredibly early age, that might not be able to differentiate which world is actually real?
Television (yes including Netflix) are programming your subconscious mind. Music with damaging lyrics together with certain frequencies (used in the top hits) program and dictate your subconscious mind. Your brain can read much faster than your eyes so just scanning your phone whilst scrolling is absorbing excess information.
Your mind is not free.
You probably feel it yourself at times. You get through your day and in tiny moments of full presence it feels like you’ve snapped out of weird hallucination, wondering there the time has gone or what you even did. And then you drop back in without warning.
Recently, I did one technology free day and 2 days phone free and I noticed a much more prominent level of awareness and clarity during this time.
And that was just two days. I wonder how much more free I could become with less time behind a screen.
We are all freely providing our mental and conscious energy to mind numbing sites.
If you feel tired often, unable to focus, unable to get simple tasks done, it could be because you’re draining your own mental brilliance into a bottomless pit. And that energy is worth a fortune. That is why companies spend millions of dollars figuring out how to keep you hooked.
Next time you go to pick up the phone, watch a violent entertainment film or listen to a song with dumb lyrics, just remember what you’re feeding your brain.
I may sound crazy sometimes, but if someone 200 years ago said that humans could be glued to a small electronic box instead of playing in nature, laughing together, cooking with passion or being creative, I dare say they would think that humans have lost their mind.
And they would be right.
I care about all of you so much.
Kisses always,
Sorelle