The Solution to Tech Addiction (Channeled Guidance)

{This is my first Substack post that’s come through my guided writing. If you’re new here, read this post to understand What Is a Guided Write?}

(Key: Italicized text is my voice, normal text is the guidance I receive)

Good morning, what would you have me know today?

There is so much noise. Everywhere, noise. In your head is likely the loudest. But this noise is not real. You understand that it’s stemming from the energy of busy-ness and the presence of endless opinions and sharing through vehicles with seemingly no limits.

Firstly please recognize that computers, internet, AI, in society as it is today - these DO have limits. The more you lean in the direction of basing your life on these things - the more connection and validation you seek through them - the less connected and validated you will feel within you.

The limits of these tools (for that is all they are) is that they exist only on the surface.

(We will talk more about this soon.)

But now we also need to mention that you are not designed for the level of input and stimulation that is inherent in a system based on electronics which never sleep.

You need rest. The internet doesn’t.

This may seem obvious, and you may feel googly-eyed or over-screened after too many hours, but what most of you do not realize is the implication it is having on your very DNA. On what makes humans human. It is altering the fibers of your minds, and rarely in a direction that is helpful.

Do you remember how to sit on the edge of a lake, gazing at its surface, and reflect on life? Do you understand that this is an innate way that peoples’ minds and beings have evolved to grow, succeed, access wisdom, make decisions? Not only in lakes, but in nature. In any place where life just IS.

Can you do this now? Just sit and be, without your mind wandering to the next post, or wondering what’s waiting in your inbox? Without wanting to check your followers or messages or income for the day?

The pleasure centers of your brain are not designed to be sparked or lit up so consistently. It’s meant to be something that STANDS OUT in your life, so that you pay attention. When it is the norm, how do you know what is really priority? Where your attention is best focused?

If we’re so addicted to these tools, what is the answer? How do we release? How do we regain our ability to be without dependency on them?

It is not complicated. The answer lies simply in doing that which you need more of. Not in punishing or cutting yourselves off from anything necessarily (though there will be some who need a total restriction because of their addictive tendencies), but in DOING MORE OF THE THINGS THAT BRING YOU CLOSER TO YOU. The connective things. Art, play, nature, music. More time with people who it feels good to be around.

Put the phone down, and limit the hours spent on anything that it feels difficult to turn off.

As with any other tool, if you keep it in its rightful place as a TOOL and not as a crutch, or substitute, or something you can’t live without, then you’ll begin to find a balance with it.

Listen to the world around you. It is constantly giving you messages and wisdom that you need to live a good, heart-centred, joy-filled, connective life. It guides you through the ups and downs of your journey. Nature is not just something to enjoy, or sit in when you need to de-stress. It is the greatest source of teaching on our planet. If you will only listen.

(As A result of this guidance, I’m embarking on a series of “The Voice of Nature Notes.” You can find them scattered throughout my Notes section, and at some point I may compile them for easier access - the first one is here.)