To be mindful is to observe and label thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the body in an objective manner.
When we subject ourselves to the firehose of information that is social media, we lose touch with our objective understandings and become distracted and manipulated.
…We’d be naive to think our current state(s) isn’t being affected by our digital environments.
And regardless of the type of information (not all media is created equal), the real problem is in the wildly disproportionate amount of time people spend consuming vs digesting.
The reality in today’s world is that people’s appetites to consume is ever growing and the time they’re allotting for digestion (of said information) is ever shrinking.
And without digestion, consumption can have harmful, toxic, dire effects—which is precisely what many of us are experiencing.
If we’re going to use social media mindfully, we need to establish boundaries from the consumption and make more space for digestion.
This means space minus the phones. Conversation minus the screen(s). Walks minus the ear buds. Showers minus the Siri and Alexas. Waiting minus the feed-refreshing. Driving minus the podcasts. Experiences minus the highlight reeling…
…Life without the penetrating influences of everybody else’s life experiences.
Time to just settle and be.