I’m not suggesting that you escape and hide from technology or the internet; the digital wave has its place in modern life. But you don’t always have to ride the wave. You can choose to let a few waves pass you by.

Instead, swim out to calmer waters, past the digital mayhem, sit, and be still. Let nature’s current guide you. Listen carefully to the silence. You can learn more from this primordial silence than you’ll ever learn mindlessly racing around in the digital world.

Then, when you’re more centered and wise, ride the next wave—if you choose.

If you engage with technology from a grounded perspective, your experience of the digital wave will be radically different. The wave won’t have such a strong hold on you. You will no longer be pulled in the direction of the current, unable to make effective, meaningful decisions.

Now, you’ll ride the wave with a sense of nonattachment, engaged with the wave, but not at the effect of the wave. Herein lies your freedom, as David R. Hawkins says, to be in the world, but not of it.

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