When it feels normal to disconnect from ourselves
In the age of social media and technology, our nervous system becomes locked inside survival mode. As with so many boxes we find ourselves in like religion, education, and careers to name a few, one of them becomes disconnection from the self and it starts to feel normal after awhile.
But these boxes we put ourselves in is not meant to be the best way for our souls to grow. It's difficult to truly seek what feels like truth to you when you have voices around you telling you what is best and to never take risks. Generations of families are never taught to question their beliefs because it feels safer not to but what if that space only creates stagnancy and keeps you from experiencing what your soul wants to experience?
One of the biggest comfort zones right now is remaining behind a screen. To become another person trying to make friends in the digital world, not ever going out to meet actual people. It feels safer for a nervous system to be online in a world that feels more unsafe by the day. Not only are we bombarded by thousands of different content, we find ourselves copying others and losing who we truly are along the way. It's actually scary when you wake up and realize the level of toxic energy that clouds your intuition whenever you scroll on social media. Even streaming platforms have their own algorithm that keeps you stuck in the continuous loop of what's the next thing to watch?
Social media has created the illusion of connection but we've never been more disconnected to others and ourselves until now. When a nervous system is in fight or flight, the body stops signaling to the brain that there is too much input and so many people are stuck in this state and do not know it. We feel the anxiety and overstimulation, but we never question the source and think there is something wrong with us.
People might laugh when they call social media an addiction because it doesn't seem harmful, but it does cause harm in the background and slowly rewires your brain to keep on feeding your brain junk food, which is what I like to call content on these platforms that the algorithms push out more.
Social media in itself has become the ultimate source to escape discomfort and emotions by viewing the lives of others.
Your energy is what you need to navigate this world yet we give it away so easily to these platforms. And we source out answers by comparing ourselves to others in hopes that the next trend will be aligned for us. Social media is one big static cloud, and I firmly think through experience, that in order to actually know what your soul is trying to tell you, you have to get off these platforms for at least a couple of days. You have to sit in silence and do nothing to hear your soul's wisdom.