Self Imposed Social Media Ban

This morning I awoke from a dream. It was another dream just like any other of recent times where in it, I managed to fall short of whatever it was that I was pursuing. Funnily enough, or not so funny actually, these recent dreams seem to mirror my actual life at present.

Over the past number of years I haven’t been able to actually position myself in any ideal circumstance and whilst my life has had ups and downs, I’ve always had the uncanny ability to manifest exactly the scenarios that I wish for so it is extremely annoying, to say the least.

Anyway, upon waking most mornings, I usually have a very clear thought indicating an action or direction I should take and the thought this morning was to cease all use of social media, including intake of news and events.

Such thoughts, when so clear, should always be listened to and so instead of reaching for my phone to fire up Youtube and get up to date with the latests events unfolding around the world, or logging into instagram for a bit of mindless scrolling as my mind warms up to start the day, I listened to this latest morning directive and abstained…but it wasn’t easy, in fact, information addiction is quite pervasive and intruding.

Several times I would pick up my phone in anticipation of loading up a video, podcast or to check messages…each time stopping myself. I actually felt the pull of the addiction and doing so strengthened my resolve to resist it.

Now me, I like to know what’s going on, I can be a sponge to soak up information. Politics, social, international and local, I like to know what’s going on…and I think somewhere along the line last night whilst journeying in spirit, it became clear that this was one of my issues inhibiting me from actually manifesting in line with my goals and ambitions. And further more, I think I know why.

There is so much unfolding in the world and up until know, a good proportion of it had my attention. Although many of those events can and will influence me indirectly in some ways and not at all, in other ways, my focus and attention throughout the day is spread across all that I see within the media and on social media…leaving less than 100% focus on my actual world in front of me. How I am supposed to focus into my reality, that which I want, if I am focusing broadly outside of my direct world, that which is more or less in front of me?

So that’s it, I have imposed a 100% social media ban and on the first day, I already feel more confident, have listened to more music, am happier and have started taking action to resolve some scenarios in my life that could do with some improvement.

Most importantly, I have began to focus my imagination back into my own life. And that is the foundation of direct manifestation.

The truth is, I don’t need to know what’s going on in the world..I mean, I know what’s going on in the world, I know the main players, I know the systems and how they work and don’t work…keeping up to date with any of it doesn’t help me as whilst the pieces can change often, the board and rules they play always stays the same.

So yes it’s time to pull my attention back in…to better see what’s in front of me.