Digital Detox: How to Set Healthy Tech Boundaries for Mental Well-Being | Eckhart Tolle
Summary
TLDRВ этом обсуждении поднимаются вопросы о влиянии технологий на наше повседневное общение и психическое состояние. Говорится о том, как смартфоны и интернет могут одновременно быть и расширением нашего разума, и пространством для нашего бессознательного. Основное внимание уделяется этическим аспектам использования цифровых технологий и способам, которыми они могут способствовать повышению осознанности и человечности. Обсуждается, как важно сознательно подходить к тому, что мы делимся в интернете, и как технологии могут использоваться для расширения сознания, включая медитативные приложения. Подчеркивается необходимость баланса между технологиями и природой, а также опасности, связанные с зависимостью от устройств.
Takeaways
- 📱 Технологии нейтральны по своей сути и могут использоваться как во благо, так и во вред.
- 🤳 Смартфоны и интернет являются продолжением нашего сознания и местом для проявления нашего бессознательного.
- 🧐 Важно осознанно подходить к использованию технологий и избегать спонтанных, реактивных действий в интернете.
- 💬 При общении в сети следует избегать обвинений и распространения негатива, помня о человечности собеседника.
- 🌿 Технологии могут способствовать росту осознанности и присутствия, например, через медитативные приложения.
- 🚫 Важно сознательно ограничивать время, проводимое с технологиями, чтобы не допустить их доминирования над своей жизнью.
- 📚 В спальне и в моменты отдыха рекомендуется оставлять цифровые устройства вне доступа, предпочитая книги.
- 🌱 Приложения и сервисы должны быть разработаны так, чтобы сочетать коммерческую выгоду с пользой для психологического благополучия пользователей.
- 🔄 Использование технологий должно способствовать присутствию и осознанности, а не усугублять зависимость от постоянного потребления информации.
- 🌺 Разработчики и создатели цифрового контента находятся в уникальном положении, чтобы вносить значимый вклад в улучшение качества жизни людей через технологии.
Q & A
Как описано влияние смартфонов и интернета на наш разум в данном скрипте?
-В скрипте смартфоны и интернет описываются как продолжение нашего сознания и пространство для реакции нашего бессознательного ума.
Что такое 'цифровые толчки' в контексте этого диалога?
-Цифровые толчки - это способы влияния на людей с помощью технологий, поднимающие этические вопросы о контроле и влиянии на поведение человека.
Каким образом технологии могут способствовать увеличению человечности и сознательности, согласно диалогу?
-Скрипт предлагает использовать технологии сознательно, избегая реактивности и способствуя присутствию, например, через медитационные приложения.
Какие советы даются относительно постинга в социальных сетях?
-Рекомендуется быть осторожным с тем, что публикуется онлайн, избегая реактивных постов, не делать людей неправыми и способствовать сознательному общению.
Как описаны медитационные приложения в контексте этого диалога?
-Медитационные приложения упоминаются как средства, которые могут использовать технологии для создания психического пространства и помощи в достижении спокойствия.
Как технологии могут влиять на способность человека сосредоточиваться?
-Скрипт предупреждает, что технологии могут уменьшить способность людей к сосредоточению и удержанию внимания на чём-либо более нескольких секунд.
Как описывается взаимодействие пар в ресторане с технологиями?
-В скрипте говорится о том, что в ресторанах пары часто погружены в свои телефоны вместо того, чтобы общаться друг с другом, что указывает на потерю человеческого взаимодействия.
Какие меры принимают некоторые компании для ограничения использования технологий сотрудниками?
-В скрипте упоминается, что некоторые крупные компании, например VW, запрещают сотрудникам использовать служебные телефоны после 18:00 для снижения технологической зависимости.
Какова роль 'компульсивного мышления' в контексте зависимости от технологий?
-Скрипт указывает, что самая большая зависимость человечества - это компульсивное мышление, которое усиливается с помощью технологий, создавая двойную зависимость.
Какой совет даётся для поддержания сознательности и избежания зависимости от технологий?
-Совет заключается в сознательном использовании технологий, создании пространства без них, например, не держать их в спальне, и регулярно соединяться с природой.
Outlines
📱 Technology and Human Connection
The first paragraph discusses the impact of technology, particularly smartphones, on human relationships and the importance of maintaining a balance. It highlights the ethical questions around digital nudges and the influence of technology on our unconscious minds. The conversation emphasizes the need for conscious communication and the potential for technology to either clutter or clear the mind, depending on its use.
🌿 Mindfulness in the Digital Age
The second paragraph continues the dialogue on technology's influence, focusing on the potential for apps and digital products to promote mindfulness and presence. It stresses the importance of creating content that brings people to presence rather than cluttering their minds. The discussion also touches on the challenges of balancing commercial viability with promoting a conscious lifestyle.
🛌 Disconnecting for Better Connection
The third paragraph addresses the addictive nature of devices and the need for creating spaces free from digital distractions, such as no devices in the bedroom. It shares anecdotes about observing people's behavior with their phones and the impact on their interactions. The speaker also mentions the benefits of disconnecting from technology to foster creativity and presence.
📲 The Art of Slow Communication
The final paragraph humorously contrasts the slowness of the speaker's text messaging abilities with the rapid typing skills of younger generations. It emphasizes the advantage of being less proficient with technology in terms of being more present and less absorbed by digital communication. The conversation concludes with a hopeful note for creating solutions that enhance presence and support business growth.
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Keywords
💡технологии
💡цифровые толчки
💡осознанность
💡коммуникация
💡креативность
💡природа
💡присутствие
💡аддикция
💡размышление
💡сознательный бизнес
Highlights
Technology is neutral and its impact depends on how it's used.
The internet can be seen as a space for our unconscious mind to be reactive.
Digital nudges are used to influence people through technology, raising ethical questions.
The importance of being conscious of what we post online and avoiding reactive communication.
The potential for technology to increase humanity, consciousness, and presence.
The role of meditation apps in creating mental spaciousness.
The challenge of balancing commercial viability with promoting presence and reducing mental clutter.
The need for creativity and stillness to generate ideas that benefit both business and human presence.
The importance of disconnecting from technology to maintain a connection with nature and reduce addiction.
Observations of how devices disrupt human relationships and presence during social interactions.
Policies in some companies to disconnect from work devices after hours to maintain mental health.
The addictive nature of devices and the importance of creating personal spaces free from digital distractions.
The impact of compulsive thinking and the human mind's addiction to its own thought processes.
The challenge for younger generations who have grown up with technology and its potential for increased addiction.
The contrast between the speed of young people's text messaging and the slower, more present approach of older generations.
The encouragement to develop innovative solutions that promote presence and support business growth.
Transcripts
- These devices, it breaks the relation
with other people you're at dinner with.
(gentle uplifting music)
Don't allow these things to take over your life.
That's vitally important.
(bell dings)
- I work with technology
and I actually, it was quite interesting
to hear you talk about technology a few times
in the past couple of days.
And the way that you mentioned
that smart phones are actually an extension of our minds,
and the way that the internet
is actually, it's a space for our unconscious mind
to actually be reactive.
So one of the things I do for work is
to raise a bit of the ethical questions around that
and the thing that we usually call digital nudges,
which is when we try
to influence other people through technology.
So I would really love to hear a bit of your opinion
and maybe your advice,
if there is a way for us to use technology as a tool
and as a channel to actually increase humanity
and consciousness and presence.
- Yes. So in itself, of course it's neutral.
The technology is neutral. It's not either bad or good.
It depends how it's used.
It is, at the moment,
it is to a large extent, a reflection
of the unconscious mind.
So if you want to learn about human unconsciousness,
you want to learn about the human ego, just go there
and read what people post,
and look at the reactivity
of people on social media
and so on, the comments they leave.
You can learn a lot about unconsciousness
and identification with mental positions.
So the first thing, of course is
be careful with what you put out there,
what kind of thing you post.
If you post things online, is it reactive?
Give yourself a moment when you read something
before you type in an answer or comment.
Give yourself a moment and go within.
And avoid making people wrong.
You can talk about issues,
but don't make people wrong
and amplify your ego
by making others wrong.
Even though their position, political or otherwise,
you may regard as completely misguided or erroneous,
they're still a human being behind that.
So you can put forward arguments
against somebody's perspective or viewpoint
without making another human being wrong.
So how what you put out is very important.
Is your communication conscious or not? Or is it reactive?
And then it can be used for other purposes.
I'm there too sometimes.
There are certain places where I appear
on, could go to YouTube or whatever,
and then suddenly
there's a spiritual teacher talking.
So do you professionally work with,
what exactly do you do in your work
that involves the media or?
- It pretty much involves the creation, the ideas
around the digital products and services,
so creating the products that people actually use
and designing the interfaces that people actually use
on their phones and on their computers.
- Right.
There are some meditation sites
on all these things.
So there's great potential for raising consciousness there.
Somebody recommended to me
several apps for meditation,
which I now have on my phone.
I haven't tried them yet.
They've been there for a while,
(audience members laughing)
but I have four or five that are there.
I want to try them out.
So that's the very thing
that otherwise would clutter your mind
can actually also be used
to bring about space or spaciousness in your mind.
So it doesn't necessarily mean that when you have your phone
or the 99% of cases when people look there,
their mind is being cluttered,
but maybe they're on a meditation app.
Maybe they're looking at a beautiful, spacious picture
and/or listening to some sound or something.
Take a conscious breath, have a little reminder
every two hours to take a conscious breath
and bring spaciousness.
Oh yes, spaciousness.
So the very same thing that otherwise clutters your mind
can now unclutter your mind.
It's possible.
I believe that is also going to grow now, and it has to
because otherwise that technology
could potentially drive humans completely insane,
remove their ability to focus on anything
for more than a few seconds.
People create young people who are totally uncentered,
have no spaciousness within,
don't even communicate with humans anymore
because they prefer to communicate digitally.
So all these things are important.
What you put out is important.
So always take into consideration
whether this brings people to presence
or whether it clutters somebody's mind.
And perhaps you can combine.
Of course, what you do needs to be also commercially viable.
So, but I believe you can combine the two.
It's not necessarily a question
of either it's commercially viable
and it clutters people's minds,
or it's presence and we are going to go out of business.
It doesn't have to be like that.
It's up to you to be creative.
Use, the more still you are,
the more creative insights you will have into.
And you might get some amazing ideas of what is possible.
I can't tell you what is possible.
I don't know enough about it. I know very little about it.
So, but you are in a wonderful position.
So allow yourself to go deep enough within.
Because then it is then the creative ideas seem to come.
And if you find a thing
that it not only brings people to presence,
but also helps your company to grow,
then that then becomes a conscious business,
which is wonderful.
It's challenging. Of course it's challenging.
So don't let all your attention be absorbed though
by that kind of activity.
Take, you still need to connect with nature.
Take it off as much as possible away from there,
connect with nature, and then bring it back.
Another thing that's just in connection with this,
not perhaps directly related to your question
but related to this,
what tends to happen is that these devices,
people are never, they're still in, they're in bed
and they're still doing stuff on it.
(audience members laughing)
And that it takes you over there at dinner
and they're doing stuff on it.
It breaks the relation
with other people you're at dinner with.
I can see, I see people in restaurants,
the couples sitting, sitting at having dinner together
and both are on their phones.
Now, that probably means
they've known each other for a while.
(audience members laughing)
If it happens on the first date,
the first date will probably be the last one.
(audience members laughing)
But if happens after they've known each other for two years,
then it's almost a normal thing.
They're not present with each other.
Or then they exchange a few words
and then she looks at the phone again,
and then he stares into space.
And then she's still on her phone.
I've actually observed it.
She's still on her phone and he's staring into space.
And then finally he gets out his phone too,
because he doesn't want to be staring into space.
And then I wonder, are they texting each other?
(audience members laughing)
Two good things that I did,
I learned that in some huge companies,
I believe it may be
VW in Germany, well, they've had enough problems,
but now they, (audience members laughing)
they tell their employees after 6:00 PM
they're not allowed to use the company phones anymore,
not to deal with emails or anything.
They need to get off.
And that's a very wise thing
because the more people's attention gets absorbed by this,
the more confused and non-creative they become,
the more cluttered their minds become,
the more ineffective they're even at their work.
Not to mention as human beings,
the quality of life decreases enormously.
So give yourself spaces.
Don't allow these things to take over your life.
That's vitally important.
So it's wonderful that some big companies
like that have this policy now,
no emails or anything after 6:00 PM.
Well, that's wonderful.
I talked a couple of years ago to Ariana Huffington,
who has a famous news website
and has also written some books.
And she describes in her latest book
how her life deteriorated more and more
although she was making a lot of money.
And finally she collapsed and hit her head on her desk.
And she was complete breakdown.
And now she has, for example, in her private life,
and that's a good thing, she has this policy
of no digital device in my bedroom.
So in her bedroom, she still has books.
Sometimes she reads in bed.
But it has to be a book, not a Kindle,
not the iPad, not the iPhone,
no digital device in my bedroom.
And that's a good thing to have.
At least you have that space for yourself.
So everybody needs to be really conscious
of the addictive nature of these devices.
How I sometimes say,
I even said that before these things were invented,
the greatest addiction for human beings
is compulsive thinking.
They can't stop thinking.
But really, that is what is the meaning
of being an addict, whatever it may be?
If you are an addict, it means you have no power to stop,
whether you're addicted to a drug or to alcohol.
And many people who are addicts say,
"No, I'm not an addict. I could stop."
But they can't (chuckles).
So the nature of being an addict is
you no longer have the power to stop doing this kind.
And this applies for many humans.
First of all, all humans are addicts.
And that was already before these devices came.
All humans are addicts,
addicted to their thinking,
to their compulsive and unconscious,
superfluous, excessive,
often destructive thinking.
They can't stop, and they don't want to stop
because they're so identified with it.
Their entire identity is in their thoughts.
So they have to go on. They don't even know it.
So the greatest addiction
for humanity is not heroin or whatever.
It's the human mind
that's actually, you are addicted to thinking.
And now these devices are
an amplification, externalization of the human mind.
And so that makes it even more difficult to deal with
because then you not only have your mind.
You also have the collective mind,
comes through, at you through your iPhone.
And there's Samsung,
which hopefully doesn't explode in your face,
(audience members laughing)
Well, if it did explode, that would make you present
(audience members laughing)
and it might suddenly break the addiction.
(audience members laughing)
So give yourself space in your bedroom,
that this is a good policy.
And
don't be on it at all times. Enough.
The more, the younger you are,
the more difficult this is for you (chuckles).
For old people like myself, still it's relatively easy.
But if you're 18 or 20 or 25,
then you've grown up with these things.
The older generation, they didn't grow up with these things.
They're not quite, perhaps not quite as addicted
and identified with it.
Another way to tell
whether they've grown up with these things is
how they type into their phones.
I always admire the young people because they type,
they go like that
at enormous speed, brrrrrrr, with their thumbs, trrrrrr.
How they do it with their thumbs, I don't know.
(audience members laughing)
And they can even talk to you while they're doing it.
(audience members laughing)
And then I get a text message
and somebody expects an answer
who might not know that I'm not that fast.
Because, and with the text message,
you can actually see that somebody is replying.
You know that he's replying.
And so they wait and say, "Why isn't he?
He's doing something."
(audience members laughing)
They don't know that I go like that.
It takes time.
And that's a good thing because it's easy to be present
when you're not good at this.
You can be much more present.
Where's the B (chuckles)?
(audience members laughing)
So it's a challenge.
Let's, I hope you come up with something wonderful
that promotes presence in this world
and helps your business.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
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