The Lion in Your Life Is Your Phone

The new lion in your “life or death” response is your phone. 

Have you found yourself wondering “what has happened to people” and feel like you don’t know anyone anymore. We’re constantly prefacing our conversations so as not to trigger or offend - trigger warning, this blog might bug you. 

Something has happened to people.

Our phones.

Our obsession with voyeurism and the access to it 24/7.

The kid that had to shut out the lights at 8pm. He’s now up on his phone all night. He doesn’t know why he does it. I do. 

It's avoidance. Avoidance of rules and accountability. It's a self sabotage method meant to keep them just where they are. Feeling small.

Self sabotage makes us feel small and that can be a really familiar place. Our psyche and body memory love familiarity, even if it's harmful. We are getting into a place where we uplift ourselves with positive talk around our coping mechanisms that we use to keep from feeling.

Feeling is the only way in. Feeling is medicine.

Sitting in discomfort is doing something opposite of what you would normally do. If staying up all night on the phone is your thing, give yourself some discipline. Put it away. Do it for a week. Discipline isn't for the outside world to give to us - it's our path to liberation from programming.

You "doing what you want because you can" is a lie told to keep you weak and feable. Malleable and out of the way. You may have a story that tells you this is your life, you've earned it.

That is very true. It's your life to live or die. Be you or be your programs.

Everyone has choices.

You can feel excluded and sit on the outside of what you want, complaining about not being in the circle, but in all reality, do you really want it? No, you want to watch. 

You fill your every question with an answer carefully curated by your mind’s bias and the energy you put into the world. Yes, you are guilty of creating this mess. 

We all are. 

The apple on the back of the phone with the bite taken out of it, that’s not a joke. That’s symbolism. 

If you don’t see the or understand the power of symbolism, you would be surprised at what it can do to the mind. Ask any magician. 

You, my strong, free thinking community, are being sold a story every single day. Yes, it’s a simulation. 

Here’s why. 

Ask three people what they think is going on in the world today and you will get either 3 very similar answers (word for word zombie stuff) or you will get VERY different, electro magnetically charged perspectives. 

How can this happen in a world that is so connected. Being too connected is the reason I started this writing. Notification this, App that. Everything happening within that phone, don’t you dare think about leaving it behind. Don’t you dare lose it. 

It’s so important to you that you’ve made a point of letting it ruin your life while you make every excuse and reason to not leave it behind.

What if? What if????

You’ll be fine.

Remember when we used to believe that. 

Now we are so coded in a world set up for “emergencies” that we LIVE in a state of constant emergency by telling ourselves we only keep it on us in case of emergencies. 

You are the emergency. 

We all are. 

Remember when you used to love your neighbor. Yeah, that’s because you didn’t go swimming around in their mind for their every thought and opinion. Instead, you bonded over the things that were in front of and around you. You breathed the air, for heaven’s sakes, even smoking was a more social event. Now, you have all this vaping in private and sneakiness. Why are you doing it? 

We used to sit in the smoke pit and chat. We’d talk about our community and what was going on around us. We’d gather by fires and go for walks. 

These things are happening more and more online and more and more in isolation. We can find any group online to reflect ourselves back to us. Mirror our every thought our every outrage. It feels good to be understood. It feels good to be seen. 

But, you’re not really being seen.

We are all just talking to ourselves until the person disagrees and then we move onto the next quick hit because it’s right there. You can find a NEW like-minded person just a click away. The same thing is happening in dating. Lots of options for low effort dating. Lots of options for low effort relationships. And a lot of people thinking they deserve access to people whenever and wherever they want. 

It’s time to go within to seek your companionship that only mirrors exactly what you think. You are the only one who thinks like you, the only one who can truly understand you. Go there. The rest is just dopamine. 

Connecting means effort. It means understanding that even if the person appears to be exactly like you, they are different. We all are. 

I don’t get all the groups forming that separate this from that. I do get wanting to have a voice. It gets lost in the crowd. We get lost in the crowd. 

It can feel really scary to say who you are and what you feel. 

It always has. 

I don’t remember a time in my life it didn’t. We used to focus on overcoming discomfort because all wisdom teaches that through pain we find ourselves. 

When you go beyond that pain is when the self is revealed. When you are fully present to your power through deep self nurturing. 

This kind of nurturing is the mother that says “I know it’s hard. I believe in you”. The kind of nurturing that feels without story to the past. 

We live in a world that perpetuates our pain to reinforce our story. If your life is this, that is your story. You can explain it away, but that is the Universal truth and I am not rewriting universal law for comfort. 

We are living in a vortex of our own drama. Yes the world is a simulation. You are the creator. 

Put the phone down.