Smartphones provide you an escape from reality, an escape from what is. You have become a modern slave, enslaved to smartphones, and addicted.
You have become addicted. You are addicted.
Your brain on ‘smartphone’ is the same as your brain on ‘cocaine’. You get an instant high every time your screen lights up with a new notification.
‘SNS monitoring addiction’, in which you constantly crave ‘Likes’ to your posts from friends and colleagues.
‘Customize addiction’, in which you download all kinds of applications and devotes inordinate time to mastering them.
‘Matching addiction’ refers to spending hours in search of a dream partner of the opposite sex.
‘Social gamers’ are so hooked they are known to lock themselves in a toilet at work so they can play ‘Monster Strike’ and other popular games. And so on.
Why do so many people on the planet right now medicate themselves. They medicate themselves with too much technology. They are medicating themselves in front of that white screen, checking the smartphone a hundred and ten times every day. That is not checking your technology. You know what that is, that is an addiction, and an escape from what is.
And if you said to most people, ‘Did you know you are addicted to your smartphone. Did you know you are addicted to your notifications, addicted to your television. Did you know you are addicted to your excuses, addicted to gossip.
Did you know you are drinking too much alcohol because you are addicted to it. Did you know that this is all a flight from what is, because deep down inside the deepest unknown part of you knows that you are in pain over potential unlived.’
They would fight you to the death.
Deep down inside I believe most people on the planet are heartbroken. Why? Because they have betrayed the visions, ambitions, values and mission in their heart. They have betrayed their talent by buying into the mass hypnosis that the World has sold them.
And they are 35 and they are 45 years old, and they are just no no, this is what everyone does, and they just check, check, check, check, check.
For most people their misery is derived by their inability to sit quietly in a room by themselves. Most of us are so distracted, they are so over stimulated, they are so interrupted, that they don’t create the silent spaces where their genius can present to themselves.
And just because 95% of the population does this, we think this is how we should live. And so I am suggesting to you the mass of humanity the reason they are doing this it’s a flight from pain that’s deep within their subconscious.
And why are they in pain? Why do they need the medication of distraction? It’s because they don’t want to feel the pain. It’s uncomfortable. It takes bravery to feel the pain.
And all I am suggesting to you is, if you have betrayed your potential, if you are not bringing it on, if you are not shining your light in the World, and if you are not standing in the highest expression of your fullest talents, and not only doing a disservice to the World, you are growing the pain.
Bring your potential, and your light to the World. And if you are not doing that your pain is going to grow, your deep hidden sorrow will grow. And you will drink more alcohol, you will do more drugs, you will be more toxic in your workplace, you will be more passive-aggressive, or hateful.
And if you are wondering why the World has so much hate, checking your notifications, looking at your email, looking at SMS, looking at pictures of people’s breakfasts. It’s an addiction. It’s a dopamine addiction. Start the process of breaking your addiction to distraction today.
If you look at most people on the planet, they are literally hooked to a white screen. They are wasting their human potential, hooked into some social platform that’s creating empires for other people. Many people, if not most people, are now a form of artificial intelligence.
They are not living their brains potential, not living their physiological potential, not living their creative potential. They are not living their human potential, are not living their economic potential. Why? Because they are hooked to a screen, because most people are lost, most people are hooked.
Turn off your phones.
Get serious about this.
This is your life!