How Our Phones Damage Our Protection and Corrupt Relationships
April 30, 2022
This affects all of us.
Our phones are invading our privacy, our protection, and infiltrating disrupting and corrupting our relationships.
Healthy Diversity is the way to go. Healing ourselves from the inside out.
Honoring our human self via Mind, Body, Spirit.
I also wanted to share one of the most quick and concise reads that helps shed a light on an issue you might know a little bit about - that is the global supply chain disruptions around some of our most common foodstuffs - both local, national, and global.
Going back to our roots, how we used to cherish the nuances between varieties and regional variances.
For Food to be used as Medicine, we must support medicinally nourishing, clean and lush soils for our food to grow for the greater good for all mankind, all plant and animal kinds as well.
Taking notes from Slow Food, take notes from BioDiversity, Food Forests, Permaculture, Indigenous ideas and Regenerative Agriculture (and others...) not multi-national corporate controlled value chains leaning on monocropping, tonnes of chemicals, synthetics, leading our world's biome into oblivion ;)
There is much room for improvement. There is much room for all of us to play a part in a healthier food future - for all of us.
While most of what we eat in America is not even "real food" to begin with, but this article highlights the actual foods we do rely on for much of our food system today.
Sometimes, health and sustainability actually looks like doing less or going backwards in order to correct some of the missteps we've taken along the way.
Relentless growth & expansion sprinting forward for profits alone is a dark tunnel vision that lacks the foresight to support true symbiosis of sustainability and prosperity.
Climate changes globally and regionally. With global markets, international trade, intercontinental communication. Everything affects everything. We’re all in this together.
In my opinion, the goal is not to synthesize a manufactured product for lifelong dependent consumption but rather to equip and empower both locals and global networks of planetary health advocates to work together to nourish the soils beneath us, building a more healthy, abundant, nutritious food future for all of us - without scarcity, war, poverty, environmental or political crisis that can often rise due to changes in the food supply.
Lean into the greater understanding and consider taking some mental and physical steps to align your life and lifestyle in a way that supports our health - together.
For Food to be used as Medicine, we must support medicinally nourishing, clean and lush soils for our food to grow for the greater good for all mankind, all plant and animal kinds as well.
May we always remember... we’re all in this together.
From dust to dust, from sunshine to sunset, from microbe and mitochondria to mountain villages to “floating cities” in Asia pacific,
From all the farm animals known to little kids by the famous songs “Old McDonald had a Farm... EEE EYEEE EEE EYEEE OHHH!” to funny dancing fruits and veggies singing catchy songs on shows like Veggie Tales....
From ants to antelopes and from a newborn’s bare skin to the furry skin of a beautiful black bear in the woods of Tennessee... and every wonderful sign of life here, there, and every second in-between...
We live in a wonderful miracle of a world we can enjoy, appreciate, cherish and preserve, honor, love and respect her for all she’s given us.
Our world is a wonderful world when we give ourselves the chance to enjoy it, to learn it, to see and taste, and experience it on a deeper level. Likewise, our friends and our neighbors and even the strangers down the street, they too are wonderful, even if still yet unrecognized.
Personally, I tend to always give people the benefit of the doubt. I know not everyone agrees with me, and that’s certainly okay. I’m inclined to believe we all have things we can learn from one another along the way of life. Together we grow but alone we die.
Inside and out.
You’ve probably heard to never judge a book by its cover. I think this ancient moral lesson still remains true, though I think a bit less promoted in today’s cultural climate that can feel sometimes more divisive than diverse and inclusive. If you can always remember that you are loved infinitely and unconditionally by your creator, you can reach a point of inner recognition that no matter what anyone else says, no matter anyone’s opinion… you are still beautiful, you are still loved and cherished and known by your creator. Other people’s energies don’t need to impact you as much as what you probably think.
Just because everyone has opinions, doesn’t mean that these opinions infiltrate into your personal bubble. In fact, it’s the safety and security we hold within our own personal bubble that allows us to interact with others in a way where we can go through life together, yet separate.
Part of me has to ponder what relationship the 1-ft distance we have grown so accustomed to with holding our phones in front of our face. When we know how confrontational it can feel when our instincts are aroused if someone steps within a few inches of our face.
Our instincts illicit our response for hostile engagement, fight or flight, adrenaline rush with epinephrine / norepinephrine released by the adrenal medulla – aka the little piece of our brain that helps us take on danger and strive to survive.
Do you think that having our phones within just a few short inches in front of face all the time might have any impacts for provoking our ancestorial instincts for survival? I think so. It’s incredibly disruptive to our health and wellbeing, our mental health and capacity for mindful focus.
If our fear and danger centers are on high alert, we actually CANNOT engage our more calm and thoughtful pieces of our brain, those which promote empathy and kindness, compassion for the other person as separately distinct from ourselves but still worthy of our love and understanding.
Our phones are invading our privacy, our protection, and infiltrating disrupting and corrupting our relationships.
Takeaway:
Do what you can this week to journal about your daily habits and consider decreasing your screen time, expanding the distance with which you hold your phone when you do use it, and encourage your proper upright posture while you’re at it.
Track your daily use habits and monitor your emotions during high-use vs low-use parts of your week.
There is a clear reason why forest bathing is so restorative, why peace and tranquility draw us in with nature-based experiences where we leave our phones away. If you can, dive into your environment and evoke your five senses around the nature that’s around you. Don’t let your phone held close hold you back from remembering who you are as a natural, living, breathing, beautiful human being.
Know what you need. 🧬💡🧠
Nourish your seed. 🌱
Nurture your tree. 🌲🌳
Set yourself free. ✌️💙
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