Episode Transcript
[00:00:06] Ah, yes. Well, I feel a million times better now having come back than I did when I left.
[00:00:14] So Today is day three. I'm feeling absolutely wonderful. It's 5:02pm, day three of my digital detox. No media, no news, nothing.
[00:00:27] The morning was absolutely exceptional. I got up really early, did wonderful meditation, had a powerful meditation for about an hour and a half, and then I came up with my list of things to do and the Internet was off. And then I turned the Internet on because I have to check stuff, and it all fell apart rather quickly.
[00:00:47] I started using AI to figure out some complicated stuff with my email system, funnel system, and I found myself getting progressively more and more and more irritated as the day went on because I was reading large amounts of information and this isn't right, and this isn't right. And I find it honestly very, very, very unpleasant, to be perfectly honest. I really do.
[00:01:15] And no wonder I use media, because what normally happens is I start using AI to work on something and I find it very disturbing. I normally don't get angry with anyone. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a very relaxed person. I don't get angry, but I definitely get very irritated with. With AI. What normally happens is I'm not enjoying the process at all. So then I think, well, I damn well deserve to watch a show or to do something to manage the distress that I'm experiencing using this technology.
[00:01:49] But because I wasn't using any of it, I just experienced more and more distress until finally I just gave up and said, I can't be bothered with this. And then I went for a walk.
[00:02:01] And on my walk, I did one of the practices that I find very helpful, and I teach this to my students and it really works is just let everything go. And I just said to myself, I am surrendered to the highest good for all. I can't figure this out. This is very irritating. I let it go, let it go. I'm not even going to think about it.
[00:02:22] Release, release, release. I went on this beautiful walk into this magical part of Sedona. And then I just lay down in the shade and had a nap, did some meditation, then I had a nap and I surrendered, surrendered, surrendered to God, to a higher power.
[00:02:40] And I brought this little journal with me, pocket journal.
[00:02:45] And I just let go, let go, let go, let go, let go. Until there was no negativity, no resistance, nothing.
[00:02:53] Then I sat down on this magical sparkling rock that had these little crystals in it, sparkling in the light.
[00:03:00] And on one page I solved the entire problem on the first Try and one page, thank goodness. Then I started thinking about it too much and tried to do it again and screwed it all up so I was using my, my own mind and then I let go again and then I walked up and down on these rocks just to get a sense of the, the vibration and the journey because I'm creating an email system, right? So what's the journey of someone? And they start and they go through this and they go through this and what's the journey?
[00:03:32] So instead of just sitting there in front of a computer, I'm actually walking in the sun after and down, just tuning into the experience.
[00:03:40] And then I had a few ideas, wrote them down and the whole thing at least on paper is completely solved.
[00:03:50] Whereas if I was consuming media, what quite likely would have happened is I would have got to that place of distress and then decided to distract myself, stayed in the house being somewhat distracted and maybe went out way later rather than going out at the perfect time, going for a long walk.
[00:04:12] Ah yes, yes, yes. So I'm going to turn the Internet off in about an hour and a half and I think I have solved the problem and I really just get all my best ideas when I'm going on walks, when I'm doing meditation, none of my best ideas come sitting in front of a computer, especially using AI. So I don't know if this is something you can relate to.
[00:04:38] But if you are feeling irritated with using technology and AI, if you can, it's just great to go for a walk, get away from it all. I went for a walk without phone, without anything because I don't want to be distracted by anything. I just had a pen and paper.
[00:04:56] And the other thing I've realized today is that when I am using AI I need to force myself to take breaks because I could have probably had a much more enjoyable time if I didn't keep pushing, pushing, pushing, trying to get it to do what I wanted because it just doesn't. Time disappears. Like many, many. I think I started at 8:30 in the morning or something like that and I didn't leave the house till around two and I, you know, I did other stuff but like a big chunk of time and I didn't take enough breaks. So ah yes, these are all the lessons. But I'm feeling much, much, much better. And the key thing is turn everything off, eat proper food and I'll let you know how I do tomorrow. And I know at some point the, the monster is going to come out and go right, where's my media? What's going on. And I'll also. Quick confession. I did ask AI to tell me some news stuff. I didn't go on the news, but I said, what happened with this story, with this person?
[00:06:05] So I. And I. The other thing I did is I was in the hot tub and I was listening to a audiobook about the hero's journey, about the.
[00:06:17] The people who create Hollywood movies and write novels.
[00:06:21] There is the Hero's Journey, which I talk about in many of my courses. I find it absolutely fascinating because when.
[00:06:32] When I'm watching media, of course I'm interested in the movies. The hero's journey, that's what, that's why they're interesting, because the hero goes through.
[00:06:40] They start in the ordinary world with their life, then they have some sort of crisis and they have to pursue some sort of goal, and they have challenges and they go into the special world where crazy things happen. And then they go through various conflicts and overcome them and have some internal external changes. And then they finally, after huge amounts of stress and sacrifice and all kinds of things, they finally change and get what they want. And then they come back having resolved the conflict and they feel better and the world is a better place. And so the reason movies and fiction is addictive is because it's a storyline that is very satisfying for the audience.
[00:07:26] All right, so I'm. I'm really interested in the hero's journey, having watched lots of movies. But the thing is, when. When I stop consuming any fiction, any fantasy, then I start to realize that I'm living a hero's journey myself. You know, each one of us is a hero of our own life.
[00:07:48] And so I was listening to this audiobook. It's very interesting about this.
[00:07:54] And that's the wonderful thing about removing fantasy from our life, is we realize we are in a fantasy and how can we make our own life fascinating?
[00:08:07] And of course, it's not quite as graphic and intense and, you know, refined. Our own hero's journey in an average day isn't anything like the Titanic or Star wars or Avatar or any of these crazy movies.
[00:08:27] But on an inner level, we are dealing with a hero's journey, going through challenges and overcoming things and having experiences.
[00:08:35] And so I'd much rather, you know, embrace my own hero's journey than avoid it and watch someone else having it.
[00:08:49] So, lots of love and blessings, and I'll share the latest adventures in the next session.
[00:08:58] Lots of love. Thank you.
[00:09:00] Sa.
