Episode 32: Sacred Smartphoning
One Heart One Mind
Thomas McConkie
5.0 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
There is no small amount of anxiety around the impact technology is having on human life. From a mindfulness perspective, many believe that technology is decreasing our attention spans and intensifying the monkey-mind effect we all suffer from to some extent. But what if technology is just a reflection of our inner state–not the cause of our ADHD but merely an effect? Furthermore, what if we used technology to deepen and express our mindful awareness instead? What kind of world would that be? Discover how you can get technology working FOR your practice in this new episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, welcome to Mindfulness Plus. |
| 0:09.7 | Another episode, I'm your host, Thomas Mconkey. |
| 0:13.4 | Thank you for joining us again. |
| 0:16.5 | If you didn't catch last week's interview with John T. Kessler episode entitled Living an Inspired Life, I highly recommend it. |
| 0:27.6 | I am still a glow from that interview and just grateful to him for coming in and sharing his practice, his wisdom, his gentleness with us last week. So check that out if you haven't. |
| 0:42.6 | Today I want to talk about technology for a moment and I think we'll probably end up doing |
| 0:49.4 | more shows on technology, specifically how to engage technology in a way that works for us, in a way that |
| 0:58.5 | expresses our mindfulness practice rather than militates against it. |
| 1:05.7 | So my perception is that there's at least some amount of anxiety in our culture around the impact that technology is having on us. |
| 1:18.9 | You hear about, for example, social media, the way that it's this new technology. |
| 1:25.1 | We've never been so connected and had the ability to reach out and connect with people all over the planet. |
| 1:31.7 | And yet a little bit counterintuitively, some of us feel more disconnected than we've ever felt. |
| 1:39.8 | And there even seems to be a correlation in some studies that the more people, the more time people spend on social media, the more disconnected they feel. |
| 1:49.3 | It's also common. I think we've all had this experience where we're on our phone or we're on the computer. |
| 1:57.3 | We have multiple windows open, multiple apps running, and we have this experience of our |
| 2:04.0 | mind just bouncing around from thing to thing, this flickering screen, almost thinking us rather |
| 2:11.0 | than us doing the steering. So there's this kind of disturbing quality to using technology, |
| 2:23.7 | our mobile device, our laptop laptop and so forth that it's really difficult to settle in. |
| 2:32.8 | Sometimes using a smartphone or a computer can represent the polar opposite of a mindful state of awareness. |
| 2:34.7 | I think you can all relate. |
| 2:50.0 | So the question I want to bring up today from mindfulness plus listeners is how can technology become an expression of our deepest mindful awareness? |
| 2:58.6 | How can we use this technology to amplify and spread the effects of our mindfulness practices rather than be hampered by this technology, rather than the technology challenging us to get centered |
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