In this video I would like to talk about our attachment to electronic devices. Sometimes it looks like it is the technology that has made us so unconscious and attached to these devices. But the truth is the technology is being misused by us.
It is because or our basic unconscious nature that we are misusing any kind of technology that is available. Technology is a good thing say for example we’ll start of, we won’t go back to the radio lets start of with the television. Through television you have the ability to reach every home. that is what the technology is about.
Now it is because of unconscious human beings who want to use this medium of technology to take advantage of the unconsciousness of everybody in each home. If television was only used by governments to telecast educational programs, programs that could help every home to stay in peace and happiness. If they never had a commercial angle to the technology, things would have been very different and the technology would have really changed lives.
But because there are unconscious human beings in these teams of people (working for the technology), they have their own unconscious motives to use these mediums to capitalize on the unconsciousness of the public.
So there are various kind of programs, there is the news that is filled with all negative stuff, there are other programs that are broadcasted every 30 minutes that put together all the conflicts in every home. Even if those conflicts are absent in certain homes it gives them ample opportunity to create doubt in their minds about their family members.
Then we have sports that are played between countries. Everyone is glued to their television when there is soccer going on or cricket or basketball. So it is unconsciousness that is taking advantage of unconsciousness, and if we do not bring in consciousness in our daily living we are destroying ourselves everyday.
We are getting more and more unconscious, we are becoming more and more dependent on technology to keep us entertained, to keep us engaged we think we are informed but we just want to be engaged. We want technology to entertain us to show us a world that is very different than ours, thats what television is about, that is what movies are about.
The next technology we could speak about is the mobile phone technology. Very nice technology, very effective you can reach anyone at anytime to give an urgent message. But again it is the same story of the television. Unconscious beings in these teams of people who want to capitalize on the unconsciousness of the public. They want to commercialize everything, they want to make money out of it.
Recently we had the sms facility, they had this facility when you could send out multiple messages at a very small cost. And they got people addicted to this way of communicating to others. Then there were companies who could sent their advertisements through this medium. We had companies calling up to sell their products, you could reach each and everyone through the phone.
Now we have the age of the smart phone where you can have internet on the phone, so there more unconsciousness, more engagement on the phone. You can browse the internet through the phone, you can download movies and watch them on the phone, you can store your music on the phone, you can play games on your phone.
So day by day we are becoming more & more unconscious. We don’t have time to just be conscious and stay in touch with our true self. we are losing our self in unconscious engagement with these devices.
So we need to try at least at our end to bring in some control over this behavioural aspect of ours. We need to put in some plan where we watch only certain programs on the tv or we use our phone in a very disciplined manner just to communicate with family close friends. Not to pass your time, not to engage yourself because you are feeling bored.
We need to bring this kind of consciousness into our living. We can practice self awareness to get in touch with our true self, so that at least for some time in the day you are in touch with life itself, you are in touch with the awareness that is enabling you to see, to hear to live your life, be in touch with this core energy that is running your life which is life itself.
It looks like is so important that we have these gadgets at hands reach so that we can communicate right, get information on time, our careers depend on it and in the bargain we are losing ourselves to it.
So we can always start today by bringing in this consciousness in our daily living so that we detach ourselves from all these unconscious attachments that we are a victim to. Please download a my free self awareness guide by signing up below.
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