Social Media Addiction - how it ruining your life ?

In early days when people woke up, either they go to brush or for a breakfast. Nowadays everything else is same. Same morning, same person but something has changed. As they wake up, instead of looking at their wife or husband and give a smile, being a grateful for this another day, they look at their phone first and feel like a heaven (Tragedy or Comedy, decide yourself!). Obviously, social media is a part of our life. Many of our essential work and needs rely on it. We have to use technology to make our life easier. But don’t let the technology make use of you.

Hey Everyone! Again we are here to raise your life at a new peak level. In this discussion we are going to draw your attention at ill effects of social media addiction that may ruin your life completely. If you want to push yourself at a safer side, please read up to end.

The reason I am going to share with you ill effects of social media addiction at start because I want to convince you that, you are wasting your life! One by one I will give you an actual mechanism of social media addiction, how does it happen and a practical tools and framework to overcome it. So let’s begin. 

#1  Lowers Quality of Your Life

Yes, it’s true! Excessive use of social media may damage quality of your life at a significant level. Meaning of Quality doesn’t restrict to only physical level but also has its measures at mental and spiritual levels. You have given a power to your addiction to destroy the quality of your life at every state of being.

Let briefly understand it with example in our own life. Suppose, if a person using his phone worthlessly for 2 hours a day. Today it is common scenario . We are thinking that it’s a normal thing and just a part of our life. But you really don’t know how it will affect if it is add up to give a compound effect.

Daily 2 hours means 8% of unproductive span in a day. And if it is your habit then you are spending 8% of your adult life in social media. Two hours has no any measure significance, but if we count it for a month it will become 60 hours and for a year you are wasting total 730 hours. Literally a whole one month.

Now ask yourself, is your life is perfect? Are you completely satisfy with your life or there is something to improve? Have you achieved your dreams and goals? If answer is no, then why are you wasting a too much time instead of investing it to achieve your dream life, to improve yourself , to have a real joy of your life. There are lots of things to do for experience a taste of new level of life. There is no limit to how better you can make your life, and believe me; you can get anything you want in your life.

If you can use these 730 hours consciously, then it will be your…

1 hour of daily gym workout for 2 years

30 min of daily meditation for 4 years

2 hours of daily study for one year.

 6 hours of daily sleep for 4 months, and

8 hours of job for 3 months (wasting your 3 month salary).

Then what are you waiting for. Come on, make a plan today (Don’t worry, we are committed to provide you a perfect plan too) and decide what you really want in your life, go for it, enjoy your life. It’s better to invest your time rather than to waste it.

#2  Control of your life.

One day a women asks her son “what do you do? Either go to market and peek some vegetables or help me to clean a floor and yard?” Her son has chosen to go market instead of cleaning a floor. Now that boy used to think that he has doing that work according to his choice. But truth is something different. He had many choices at that time; he could refuse to do the work for his mom. But he don’t know his mom already vanishes his all other choices. It’s just an example but we can learn lot from it.

Social media is attracting you to use it. They know what you like to watch, what you like to listen, your fantasies and much more and according to it they are feeding you an unlimited content. And engage you for hours. Literally, this addiction is hijacking your system of choices and conscious decision making.  There are also a too much useful content on the social media which can improve our life but we indulge ourselves to entertain us instead of improve ourselves.

We are not thinking that, what is important and useful for us. But we are looking for what gives us a lot of pleasure. You can invest your valuable time to do useful things but we are wasting it by doing a useless thing.

If you are able to think what is valuable for you and you make decisions according to it, then we can say that your life is under control of you. But unfortunately we are not doing so. Because of social media addiction we are under control of our senses which are indulged in the pleasure and lust. This poisonous addiction destroying our ability to take a conscious decision. It is diverting your life towards randomness and not as per your wish.

So, are you like to be slave of anything for an entire life or want to live your life according to your wish? How can we let anything control our life? Always remember either a one second or an hour, its must be your conscious decision that, how to spend it because you are the only master of your life.

#3 Blow you away from ‘REALITY’!

There are lot of such examples that, many people after watching a movie with strong emotion triggering content, behaves in a real world like a specific character in movie whose state or condition is resembles to them. They feel the story of that movie as a true. This happens too with youngsters who indulge in playing lots of video games. They feel every part of that game as true and start behaving like. Everyone is narrating their own story in their mind and eventually, subconsciously act as if it’s true!

Now, this is something challenging to understand and you need to think deeply if you really want to master your life.

Our every action is depends on what we believe as true and our core values. Our core values and our beliefs are shaping our self image and identity and consequently our every subconscious action. This defines what results we are going to produce in our life.

Through the excessive use of the social media we are developing a new irrelevant ‘Virtual reality’ in our mind. Social media represents the things with tons of brightened emotional content and may not represent the things as it would be in real world.  

 As we believe this virtual reality as the truth which is completely irrelevant to the real world, the outcomes we are getting through our actions may not be as we wish to be. This is because; our every action is accordance with the ‘Virtual Reality’.

For example, if you believe that you are a bird who can fly and jumps from a five storey building, what you thing, what will be happen? You better know! Same thing is happening with us. We have creating a illusionistic world in our mind and act according. These directionless actions produce an extremely painful results and our life becomes as hell.   

We also subconsciously try to represent ourselves something differently that we are not, on social media. We actually don’t know who really we are, where we stands, what we need to do to advance in life, because we haven’t analyze ourselves yet with an unbiased view which is completely free from illusion.

I am not saying at all that you have to think in certain limited way. Yes! You are unlimited being with infinite power to accomplish any of your dreams, with potential to turn any illusion into reality, but the foundation must be built on the basis of reality. We need to examine clearly what we want, where we are now and what we need to do to reach where we want to be.

I am sure this insight will help you to understand the dark side of your addiction and to push yourself towards the ecstatic gateway of freedom. Thank you so much. God bless you all!  


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