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Doomscrolling is a black magic ritual. You lay in the same position. Turn off the lights, deeply focused on the feed. You’re shown memes, tragedies and “useful” information (it’s all slop) and before you know it you’re stuck in a trance. Your thumb moves without thought. You’re in flow but it’s artificially engineered by the dopamine loops the algo was built to trigger. You remember you have things to do but the black mirror pulls you in deeper by showing you something that stimulates you more. Before you know it, all your free time is gone. Every original idea you may have had is gone. You’re polluted with open loops and feel restless all the time. Every day you go to your altar (your bed), pull out your rosary (your ig feed) and you endlessly worship slop. Time blurs together and years have gone by yet you repeat the same pattern. Why? because you’ve never been taught how to engage with your own boredom, with your own pain, with your own discomfort. You resist it like it’s killing you, but what’s killing you is what you’ve turned into a part of your life (scrolling). It’s inverted. If you simply learned how to be courageous and face your immediate discomfort with pain and boredom. You’ll allow your natural wisdom and creativity to rise and begin living a life you truly want to live.

You give all OF YOUR VALUE (Time, Attention, Energy) to algorithms and GET NOTHING in return. Logically reading + understanding that ^^^ should make you quit, but no matter how hard you try it seems impossible. Because short form algorithms are engineered to put people into a dissociative trance. When you scroll you forget about the entire sensory world, the gateway to your unconscious is open and you're giga blasted with slop + propaganda. the apps have been perfectly optimised to spark unconscious behaviour in the user. Sometimes when you open youtube the shorts tab is already opened. Now imagine EVERY SINGLE TINY FUNCTION has been tweaked perfectly to hook you in. Every single cog in the app has been meticulously studied and iterated upon to make the probability of you CHOOSING to keep consuming the most likely outcome. and God forbid you have notifications turned on. If you do, you will NEVER be able to quit. That's like having a fent dealer living in your bathroom while you're trying to quit and he keeps asking you how you're doing. OF COURSE you're going to be fent leaning in no time. The frame of trying to fight against it "so I delete da apps 🤓🤓 greyscale mode 🤓🤓" is a useless effort. What the average consumer needs to UNDERSTAND is that they do NOT have the conscious BANDWIDTH to overcome the apps engineering. The app is made to HIJACK as much of your unconscious tendencies as possible and allure you into opening it again and again until you're a zogslopped zombie. but the good news is the future isn't so bleak as you make it out to be, because the solution is extremely simple. It's embodying more CONSCIOUSNESS into ones life, and turning CONSCIOUS CHOICE into a habitual behaviour. 1st: Learn how to be bored 2nd: Learn how to navigate your emotions/subconscious junk 3rd: Have supportive mechanisms - more about this on my website -> directexperience.co and if you don't wanna sign up to any of my stuff, just smash your phone and walk in nature everyday. People lack the capacity to consciously choose. To unlock TRUE conscious choice one first has to process and let go of all their CORE subconscious conditioning which can be led back to the fundamental belief of "not being good enough". If someone truly felt good enough in their lives they wouldn't try to escape their lives, or learn the next thing to improve their lives. They could simply just be here right now, with what's in front of them enjoying the beauty in the mundane. The problem IS NOT THE PHONE OR EVEN THE APP. It's all a reflection of ones own unconsciousness. A scrolling addiction is a beautiful reflection of ones own unconsciousness for when one is unconscious, they are pulled through life, essentially wasting their life, and foregoing their own potential. The goal is not to "JUST STOP USING APP BRO" - it's to become more conscious for with MORE CONSCIOUSNESS you will have the ability to see through the desire of "wanting to scroll" and noticing it for what it is. An easy way to escape your own personal hell (your own unconscious).

The biggest problem with vice isn't some abstract esoteric idea. Whether you scroll, do drugs or engage in hedonic experiences. The principle of vice is sensory stimulation and this stimulation grounds your attention in the present moment externally. You are rewiring your being to only being able to receptive to extreme sensory stimulation. Which turns you into a perpetual consumer seeking slave. All modern vices are engineered to addict you and trade all of your power (Time, Attention, Energy) for a perceived moment of contentment with what is (even tho it's fake). Ironically leaving you feel duller than before after the high wears off. The biggest problem is not the loss of time, attention and energy but it is your sensitivity to sensation. Which doesn't just exist through the 5 physical senses. The more sensitive you are, the more you can pick up on the unseen. Intuitive is what it is called but Intuition bleeds into every aspect of life, external or internal. That subtle knowingness can be present everywhere. Intuition is the ability to instantaneously discern and identify the current of energy. Many of these waves existing as subtle undercurrents. There are many tiny sensations existing in your right now on a conscious/subconscious level which have complete autonomy over your next decision, many of which drive you to avoid things you should do, and do things you shouldn't do but you've been conditioned to CONSUME and compress awareness into hyper-stimulating sensory pleasure, desensitising you further, making it near impossible to tell the difference between signal and noise whilst the dullness/restlessness/emptiness gets even louder (it's pretty much like a counter UAV). You must cultivate your sensitivity through Boredom. Learning how to expand your awareness beyond the physical senses. Surf through the tsunamis of dullness, emptiness, restlessness that arise because beyond these massive waves of scrambled sensation exist a transparent still lake like body, infinite in it's depth, where everything becomes extremely clear. It's like you have an orbital VSAT turned on and you can SENSE everything you need to at the point in time EXACTLY for what it is. Including your own unique signal (main quest/destiny) which once you see + follow will lead to greater things than you could ever consciously conceive of, but it first all starts with allowing sensitivity to increase.

No you can't do that. Of course you can't because you spend over 6 hours per day scrolling on your phone. All the things you listed actually add something to your life, health, family, enjoyment, purpose. It's only about 22 hours (including sleep), but life is not so mechanical that you should neurotically organise every task into time blocks. Everyday may have a different mix of these variables and that's fine. Some days, more work, more steps, more exercise, less sleep, more play etc... All of these things ADD to your life. When you scroll you're trading your time, energy and attention for what? Name one tangible addition to your life you directly get from scrolling. Most people don't know it, but their essence is being indirectly neutered by their addiction to technological stimulation.

Love and wisdom go hand in hand. Wisdom is the ground that true love emerges out of. Without wisdom, love takes the form of a weed, infecting the ground, overgrowing and possessing everything it can. Without love the ground of wisdom is cold and empty like a barren desert that can't produce any life. When one cultivates the ground of wisdom and allows love to blossom from that can they taste the sweetest fruits of life.

If you lack gratitude, you’ll develop a tendency to blow up your whole life. You’ll become addicted to fresh starting your life, All because you lost sense of that essence that makes the game special. Though when you can cultivate gratitude, when all is well and stable, realise how fortunate you are for the simple pleasures you get to indulge in, more shall be added to your cup. So that others can drink from the fountain of that, which infinitely nourishes you, through your presence, because you have so much all you can do is give.

Unconscious blocks are revealed in two ways that seem different but are fundamentally similar. The Monk path or Warrior path. Either through cultivating a razor sharp awareness, that the most SUBLTE tension/reaction to an experience can be dived so deeply into, you can intuit the block (feel subtle visceral urge to a word), play a psychic version whack-a-mole and let go of it entirely, Though this path isn't practical in the modern world as we're so immersed in living day to day, unless you're a giant neet/living in a monastery. The second way is the path of the warrior, which is to completely retardmaxx and do exactly what you intuitively feel you should do, through following this radical path of outward action, your subconscious blocks will manifest themselves extremely clearly in your circumstances and your perception of them, but if you're TOO retarded you will lack the discernment to recognise it try to brute force something through pure will, inevitably leading to your own self destruction. Both paths share the fundamental principle of Truth-Seeking which is a prerequisite to uncovering these initially. Normies will hyper-rationalise themselves about their unconsciousness and say that's just who they are and you must accept it, yet ignore all the negative consequences of allowing these patterns to play out (shame, guilt, anger loops). Their entire approach is a giant mask to protect themselves from the abyss of unknowing as there isn't much practical useful info on this topic. The highest LEVER to pull is not to be 100% monk or 100% warrior, but to find your natural balance between the expression of these two energies. For it takes discernment (Monk Ability) to identify the blocks and not get lost in the hellfire of your own unconscious and Courage (Warrior ability) to face it fully and bring that experience of letting go (psychologically/spiritually) into action through CONSCIOUS CHOICE.

If you're not creating everyday, you'll degrade into an animal. A slave for consumption, rotting away any sense of individuality you posses as a self-aware being. You'll be conditioned into the equivalent of a farm animal, led by the one who feeds you (algorithms). It's your birth right as a human to direct your will into the act of creation and to use your life to consume and stimulate yourself is a direct insult to God.

Every time you choose stimulation over boredom you're giving yourself a creativity abortion

Scrolling doesn't just take your time and focus. The most dangerous thing about having a social media habit is that through sheer volume + repetition every piece of content is constantly rewriting your entire belief system. Your brain thinks "Oh I see it SO MUCH it MUST BE IMPORTANT -> DOWNLOAD". If you're convicted in what you're doing, it's an absolute rule that you must use social media for an intentional purpose, not just because you're bored. Don't trade the most valuable thing you have "Boredom" for mentally stimulating slop for boredom if sat in long enough stimulates your soul.

Your feel lost in life because your direction was chosen by someone else, some "expert" (who's only an expert at being a slave). Your life is equal to being thrown in a car, given a GPS and instructions and like an NPC you just follow it, not seeing that you're driving in infinite circles. You drive 500km around and round hoping to finally get to this place you've been told you should go to but don't realise there is no end destination. This whole time all you had to do was pull your car over and zoom out the map and LOOK. There's an infinite amount of places to go, places you've never heard of before. You realise that everyone is operating by the same social agreement to drive in this circle until their cars run out of gas. The barrier stopping you from going off-road never existed, it exists as a thought-form, because you've never seen someone do it you assume it's BAD. Fuck that. Take one look at the map of infinite destinations, realign your GPS and drive that car off-road. Speed towards the sunset. The meaning of your journey starts to reveal itself as you drive. Don't just accept some bullshit reason all because some expert told me so. Follow your curiosity and let the journey show you why you needed to break free.

Not being able to deal with your emotions is a skill issue and you've never been shown how to actually deal with them and from the shadows they control your life. When you face something challenging (sadness, guilt, anger) you attempt to run away from it or push it down. Escaping through whatever vice soothes you. Whether you scroll, do drugs, party, gamble or fill your life with busy tasks to avoid facing yourself. Your vice of choice is directly proportional to the weight/depth of the emotional charge you're experiencing. Example: Most people who are on hard drugs have had to face extremely traumatising events in one way or another, and the underlying goal of a vice is to provide enough stimulation to distract yourself from sensing the undercurrents of the weight you're carrying. The biggest misconception with emotions is that they're something that just randomly happen to you because of chemical pathways in your brain. When in reality your emotions are the greatest teachers that help rewire your entire perspective of life, and the idea that they are just random neurological firings is what keeps you stuck in self destructive patterns. Here's how they look at each stage Unconscious Incompetence -> You don't even realise you're escaping or suppressing your emotions. You indulge in self-destructive habits that stimulate you enough to forget about the emotion Example: You feel fear about not having enough money so you go and gamble -> lose money now you feel guilt and shame but that GUILT and SHAME is just a more potent reflection of that fear, and the cycle repeats itself until your life is a direct reflection of that specific fear "I never have enough money" but you can't see that you just repeat cycles of feeling sorry for yourself + gambling instead of actually building something of value. Conscious incompetence is when you become AWARE of the feelings and thoughts that are arising and you still allow the self destructive patterns to play out. Though when the emotions arise you sit with them, feel overwhelmed and then RUN AWAY from them, but here you are CHOOSING to run away from them. Conscious competence is when you are aware of the emotions and instead of playing out the self destructive patterns you are learning how to sit with the emotions and see what they're telling you. (This takes genuine practice and intention to sit down as it's very uncomfortable at first). Though over time, as you hold space for the emotion to rise, you'll see that it leads you back to a part of your identity that gets LIFE from feeling that specific thing. That memory of your dad telling you, you'll never amount to nothing arises and you realise that YOU have never felt worthy to make a lot of money because you absorbed that idea as a belief. Then you'll see that the FEAR was never real and it was only a reflection of the belief you absorbed that validated a part of your identity you clung on to. So now because you see it has not grounding in reality as a REAL thing and that it was only a projection your dad spewed up, you can stop caring about it and let it go. LETTING GO is the practice of conscious competence, and every belief you hold will arise out of the unconscious at some point, you'll give it space and allow it to run it's course and fade away. Unconscious competence is when you have practiced letting go so much that EVERY TIME an emotion rises, you hold space, let it run it's course, provide you the necessary perspective upgrade and then it fades away (WITHOUT you even needing to consciously think about it). This is the state of LETTING FLOW. That is how you develop the skill of dealing with your emotions. Understand this: Emotions are TRYING to get your attention to SHOW you something. When you learn how to actually harness the wisdom your emotions are presenting to you, your life begins to upgrade in quality of experience, the depth and sensitivity of every felt experience is INCREASED and even something as simple as watching a sunset can fill your heart with joy to the point of tears. This translates to every aspect of your life and carries a carefree lightheartedness into everything you choose to do. This sounds basic but the carry over effects and insane, you no longer feel blocked by an invisible wall, it's easy for you to be yourself, to choose the life you want to live and live in a way that is true to you. You're not bound to unseen strings of guilt and shame your family put onto you about "what you have to do". You're not blocked by the fear of "things not working out". It's not that you don't experience anger, guilt or shame anymore, but they don't control your life. You can face them with courage and take on the lessons they bring to you about how to navigate your lived experience. Genuine grounded joy lies on the other side of letting flow. You can taste the entire flavour of the human experience without letting it corrupt your sense of being. You can transform every experience into a positive that helps create a richer experience of life for all. This is how you unlock childlike joy again.

The average screen time of 7 hours a day equals 106 days in a year. 106 days of non-stop screen time, 1/3 of your year gone. Nothing to show for it. Nothing gained from it, no new experiences, no new memories. If you cut it down to 3.5 hours a day, you'd have 53 days directed to something. You could spend that 53 days on anything else and feel like you've lived an entirely different life, no matter what you choose to do with that time, you'll come out with achieved goals, new experiences, memories, a deeper depth to your character. Taking control of your screen time is the most important thing you can do in this day and age.

Scrolling turns you into the algorithms prostitute. You're renting out attention, letting anyones ideas penetrate one of the most delicate parts of your being (your mind). At least a prostitute gets paid $. What do you get from scrolling? You lose all your time, creativity, focus and curiosity. There is literally NO positive gain, it doesn't even make you laugh. The empty space of boredom is like a womb ripe with potential of birthing ideas into life, and you exchange that for, nothing???? The life you're seeking is on the other side of the unease of boredom (20 minutes). That child version of you is waiting on the other side, they have all the answers you've been searching for. Take some time to see them and remember who you are.

The craziest thing about scrolling is an entire generation is going to grow up being more emotionally connected to algorithms instead of their parents.

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John Hopkins did on Jazz musicians while they were improvising (playing from vibes not memory). They found that the the part of your brain responsible for self judgement (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) went quiet and the part that governs self expression looked like a Christmas parade (medial PFC). When the musicians just expressed through naturally arising vibes the inner critic turned off and spontaneous creation was effortlessly flowing out of them. Scrolling makes this infinitely worse. It that annoying part of your brain active by feeding it MORE micro judgements, more information to absorb and judge. Every reel is another tiny decision and you're making thousands of them every hour without realising. You're training that thing to run on steroids AND burying your creative signal deeper every session. This is why your best ideas come in the shower. Why you get genius flashes right before you fall asleep. That yapping part of the prefrontal cortex is turned down during all of these moments and pure vibes take over, where you begin self expressing in some creative way. Then "randomly" a creative insight hits you like a train. Consumption -> More info -> Micro Decisions -> Judgements -> Train part of the brain to be stronger. Relaxation -> Bored -> Space to Create -> Vibes Expressing -> Creation coming forth -> Creative bandwidth increases. The jazz musicians didn't perform better by thinking harder. Only when they LET GO did beautiful music effortlessly flow out.. You've felt this before. You just block it by picking up your phone instead of letting it happen. Retardmaxx.

Signal is already identified before you even have one thought about it. Your non-thinking mind processes 11 million bits of information per second. Your thinking mind handles only 40. That means 99.99% of what drives your decisions isn't even logical. I experienced this when I used to trade. I spent thousands of hours diving into market mechanics/behaviors for YEARS which led to helping me spot edge (when odds were in my favor) in the flash of a second. I'd randomly see stuff and my curiosity would be maxxed out so I'd dive into it and more times than not, there was something equal to a broken slot machine there. Every human has access to this. You were born with a supercomputer running 24/7 underneath your awareness but you feed it 6 hours of TikTok slop and rage bait every single day. You fill the most powerful processing system in your biology with GARBAGE data. Memes, outrage loops, engagement bait, 30 second clips about nothing. All day. Every day. So it's no wonder you feel empty, restless and like you're wasting your life. Your signal to noise ratio is completely fucked. Spend some time in boredom. Let all the tabs holding open noise close. The signal that's been buried underneath will start leading you somewhere you didn't even know you wanted to go.

Genius ideas don't show up cause you make them happen. They surface when you stop thinking so much (being relaxed in Boredom). That's why shower thoughts are a thing. It's the only place most people don't have a screen (and if u take ur phone in the shower get professional help). You pull your phone out in the elevator, watch youtube while eating, scroll while shitting, wait in line and fail to see your future wife staring at you cause ur too busy watching rainbet advertisements. Understand that if you occupy all of your "bored space" with input then there is no SPACE for anything originally important to arise. Creativity + Curiosity need empty SPACE to arise. To discern SIGNAL needs space to see clearly and all of your space is filled with useless content that’s trying to take something from you (attention or $). The most powerful thing you have childlike curiosity/imagination is put on do not disturb so you can scroll reels instead.