Lately I\u2019ve become increasingly attached to my phone.\u00a0 Something that\u2019s hard to admit because:<\/p>\n
1) I don\u2019t want to believe that to be true
\n2) it\u2019s such a slippery slope, it\u2019s hard to step outside yourself and realize you\u2019re doing it
\n3) it\u2019s so easy to justify it as a tool that it\u2019s difficult to admit to it being anything else.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s started to feel like an addiction lately.\u00a0 The more I use it the more I want it.\u00a0 The gravitational pull of the need to have my phone in hand feeling stronger and stronger everyday.\u00a0 And if not in my hand, at least on my person.\u00a0 If it\u2019s not on me, WHERE IS IT?<\/p>\n
The technology in our lives is doing a fine job of serving our monkey brain.\u00a0 We can thoughtlessly swing from distraction to distraction, all while justifying those distractions as work or a much-needed break from the stress of life.\u00a0 So our monkey brains are happy\u2026what about our body and our soul?\u00a0 We\u2019re keeping our brains occupied (not always productively) all while starving our body and soul of so many of life\u2019s great pleasures.\u00a0 Like true connection with nature, others and ourselves.<\/p>\n
Last night we found an incredible campsite to call home for a few days.\u00a0 We\u2019ve camped hundreds of places and this one was quickly climbing the ranks to becoming an all-time favorite.\u00a0\u00a0 At sunset we climbed the boulders behind our camp and watched the sunset.\u00a0 To the West the sun was setting behind layer upon layer of mountain ranges while lighting up the sky.\u00a0 To the East the rugged mountains, that felt close enough to reach out and touch, were turning magnificent shades of orange and yellow.\u00a0 The storm clouds overhead, a deep, dark blue.\u00a0 Everything looked fake, like a movie set or a photo-shopped photo.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t, it was real, and I was a part of it.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t seeing it thru a screen, I was living it.\u00a0 My soul bursting with gratitude, feeling as though it had been starved and at this moment I was finally feeding it.\u00a0 My body felt firmly planted to the ground, senses awakened and invited to enjoy the show.\u00a0 I breathed in the smell of the oncoming storm, felt the cool breeze thru my hair, the course texture of the boulders on my hands as I continued to climb higher and higher to take it all in.\u00a0 All reminding me what true, organic connection is.\u00a0 It\u2019s our living and breathing selves finding harmony with the living, breathing planet around us.<\/p>\n
As I stood on those boulders, feeling more alive than I had in months, I thought of all the hours I\u2019d been spending on my phone.\u00a0 Surfing the web, surfing social media, looking up this thing and that thing thinking I\u2019m being productive but really just being distracted, effectively removing myself from the world around me.\u00a0 With my phone in my hand, I am not a part of this world, I am an online persona.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a wild being living in a wild world, I\u2019m a node in the network.\u00a0 But what if I want to exist somewhere in between?\u00a0 I enjoy technologies conveniences, hell, I rely them to run my business remotely.\u00a0 But striking a balance between feeding my brain AND my soul, feels more important now than ever.\u00a0 Developing healthy boundaries a necessity.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t, we\u2019re going to miss out on actually being a part of this world.\u00a0 And that is one hell of an opportunity wasted.\u00a0 Because as I was reminded last night, no movie or photo or game can compete with the real thing.\u00a0 Technology, anything that exists behind a screen\u2026will never be the wild, beautiful world in which we actually exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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