If we are not careful enough to balance and scissor off the unwanted part of it, the information technology has the power to affect our lives and relationships very adversely. And when we lose our peace of mind we wonder what caused it because information technology today has almost become a part of us and most of the time we are not even aware of it.
Our thoughts are generated from the information we have stored in our brain since childhood. Based on some of these selected thoughts we take action in this journey of life. Thanks to latest technology it keeps adding up un-accountable pieces of information everyday via News media, internet, mobile phones, hoardings, advertisements and so on. Most of this information is not required for us to grow as a human being. Not even for our academic growth. Most of it is simply useless information which needs to be done away with immediately. Why stock and waste our brain ‘disk space’ with such information because it gets into the way of our proper logical thinking.
All these things are meant for our comfort and making our life easy and if we do not edit its unwanted part, it fills up our brain, mind and clutters us up. It is just like stuffing our refrigerator with those items which we are not going to eat anyway. Feeding ourselves with so much information will not let us think properly and ultimately our actions will be totally out of sync. So many times we open our mouth to say something and then suddenly cannot recall it. Why? Because we have gone out of focus.
Our forefathers were more focused than us. They did not have so much comfort and easy life style as we have today. Their minds were not filled up with loads of information that we get these days. There were no 24X7 multiple TV channels, mobile phones, laptops, emails, internet surfing, online shopping, advertisements, constant bombardment of negative news etc. They had enough time sit alone and to think logically and take right action. Today most of us have no time to sit with ourselves. We just cannot think of going off-contact with the outside world even for few minutes. If mobile doesnot work we panic – Oh someone must be trying to contact me – We consider ourselves so important and yet are scared to sit all alone and do some little introspection everyday.
We have become slave to these comforts. The mind has become slave of the body. Mind tries to do everything in the world to make body comfortable. And the worst part of it is that if we have money and we are not using it wisely than we have had it. We spend most of our time shopping for our comfort. Most of us would waste lot of our time scanning advertisements and information relating to sales, product features, shopping malls, internet surfing for such products. If only we could be smart enough to get done with it as quickly as possible. We first feed our mind with loads of information on a subject and then try to process out the best possible solution from this mess. Thus we waste lot of time and energy and exclaim ‘I had to work so hard to shop for this particular product’
Information Technology has made most of us lazy and the result is we do not have much to do and yet we are doing too much. How do we do that?
We start our day filling it up with the newspaper which contains news of what is going wrong and Where and How alongwith pictures. It affects our whole day and energy vibrations adversely if the news has been about some tragedy, accident, public strike, bankruptcy of MNCs and so on. We waste rest of the day discussing the news and giving and receiving comments on the same with our friends, office colleagues etc.
We sit in front of TV watching one programme after another or just switching channels because no programme is of our liking. Or we browse through Internet and don’t know what we are looking for after sometime we get lost in the cyber world. We buy things of comfort, employ servants to do work which we could do easily and still we are so very busy and then wonder what happened to our relations. We are not happy.
All these material items of luxury come along with certain features which they provide us with during their active working time. When we use these objects for some time we get distracted from our daily anxieties and we feel that we are feeling better. Actually these things do not contain any doze of happiness within them. The items are neutral and giving us what they have been designed to give. It is us – who are creating/generating through our mind - this feeling of relaxation or happiness with in us. As soon as these items are switched off we come face to face with reality once again and feel awful.
Why because all along we have overlooked our spiritual needs. We have to understand that we have to live in this material world and do our human activities and at the same time be aware of the other –unseen world. We have to maintain a balance between both – our material needs as well as spiritual needs because every time our balance tilts to one side the other side suffers and in turn we suffer.
Our thoughts are generated from the information we have stored in our brain since childhood. Based on some of these selected thoughts we take action in this journey of life. Thanks to latest technology it keeps adding up un-accountable pieces of information everyday via News media, internet, mobile phones, hoardings, advertisements and so on. Most of this information is not required for us to grow as a human being. Not even for our academic growth. Most of it is simply useless information which needs to be done away with immediately. Why stock and waste our brain ‘disk space’ with such information because it gets into the way of our proper logical thinking.
All these things are meant for our comfort and making our life easy and if we do not edit its unwanted part, it fills up our brain, mind and clutters us up. It is just like stuffing our refrigerator with those items which we are not going to eat anyway. Feeding ourselves with so much information will not let us think properly and ultimately our actions will be totally out of sync. So many times we open our mouth to say something and then suddenly cannot recall it. Why? Because we have gone out of focus.
Our forefathers were more focused than us. They did not have so much comfort and easy life style as we have today. Their minds were not filled up with loads of information that we get these days. There were no 24X7 multiple TV channels, mobile phones, laptops, emails, internet surfing, online shopping, advertisements, constant bombardment of negative news etc. They had enough time sit alone and to think logically and take right action. Today most of us have no time to sit with ourselves. We just cannot think of going off-contact with the outside world even for few minutes. If mobile doesnot work we panic – Oh someone must be trying to contact me – We consider ourselves so important and yet are scared to sit all alone and do some little introspection everyday.
We have become slave to these comforts. The mind has become slave of the body. Mind tries to do everything in the world to make body comfortable. And the worst part of it is that if we have money and we are not using it wisely than we have had it. We spend most of our time shopping for our comfort. Most of us would waste lot of our time scanning advertisements and information relating to sales, product features, shopping malls, internet surfing for such products. If only we could be smart enough to get done with it as quickly as possible. We first feed our mind with loads of information on a subject and then try to process out the best possible solution from this mess. Thus we waste lot of time and energy and exclaim ‘I had to work so hard to shop for this particular product’
Information Technology has made most of us lazy and the result is we do not have much to do and yet we are doing too much. How do we do that?
We start our day filling it up with the newspaper which contains news of what is going wrong and Where and How alongwith pictures. It affects our whole day and energy vibrations adversely if the news has been about some tragedy, accident, public strike, bankruptcy of MNCs and so on. We waste rest of the day discussing the news and giving and receiving comments on the same with our friends, office colleagues etc.
We sit in front of TV watching one programme after another or just switching channels because no programme is of our liking. Or we browse through Internet and don’t know what we are looking for after sometime we get lost in the cyber world. We buy things of comfort, employ servants to do work which we could do easily and still we are so very busy and then wonder what happened to our relations. We are not happy.
All these material items of luxury come along with certain features which they provide us with during their active working time. When we use these objects for some time we get distracted from our daily anxieties and we feel that we are feeling better. Actually these things do not contain any doze of happiness within them. The items are neutral and giving us what they have been designed to give. It is us – who are creating/generating through our mind - this feeling of relaxation or happiness with in us. As soon as these items are switched off we come face to face with reality once again and feel awful.
Why because all along we have overlooked our spiritual needs. We have to understand that we have to live in this material world and do our human activities and at the same time be aware of the other –unseen world. We have to maintain a balance between both – our material needs as well as spiritual needs because every time our balance tilts to one side the other side suffers and in turn we suffer.
So we better start our day with prayer to God and be selective about how much media coverage would be sufficient and needed for us. Invest saved time in doing something positive.
Vandana Ritik
New Delhi
