What author healed you from your digital media addiction?
>>25090693Nigga we're on 4chan right now
Nothing in particular healed me. I just realized that one day, for seemingly no good reason, I was able to just sit peacefully by myself for long periods without looking at my phone.Perhaps there's just more going on in my head than there used to be. Maybe I don't need external stimulus so much because my internal stimulus has increased. Maybe, paradoxically, I like the peace of sitting quietly with my very low-level background thoughts.
>>25091188Do you meditate or not?
>>25091193I'm Catholic so no Eastern-style meditation. However, I pray frequently. I pray the Rosary every single day and I am almost always in some form of dialogue with God. I have specific prayers for specific things--started and ended with the Sign of the Cross--but even when those specific prayers aren't on I invariably start to talk at God, talk to Him. A kind of running dialectic.Actually yeah, that's probably it. I've deepened my relationship with God and that removes my need for the stimulus of my phone a lot of times.
>>25091196>I've deepened my relationship with God and that removes my need for the stimulus of my phone a lot of times.What came first for you, getting closer to God or not needing your phone as much? I feel like it's almost impossible to build a real relationship with God when your mind is constantly flooded with overstimulating content.
>>25091188I'm exactly the same as you, tο the extent I that half-way-believe I could survive one of those stay-in-this-room-for-X-amount-of-days-with-nothing-to-do challenges/punishments. My zoomer gf doesn't get it and needs constant stimulation.
>>25091235>What came first for you, getting closer to God or not needing your phone as much?Definitely the former. Not needing my phone as much has only happened in the last few years.Curiously, there's been a related development around the same time: before it was my natural impulse to pray more to the saints for their intercession, but in the last few years, around the time I've needed my phone less, my impulse has been more to pray to Christ Himself, and talk directly to God.>I feel like it's almost impossible to build a real relationship with God when your mind is constantly flooded with overstimulating content.You've got to get used to the idea that God can always hear you. That's what has made the difference to me. God's always there anyway, why not talk to Him whenever you want?Also, all of this started a decade ago with a daily Rosary. Praying a prayer every day, a devotional with real power, is helpful. If not the Rosary then something like the Divine Mercy Chaplet.
>>25090693i switched to a weaker internet package so streaming/youtube/spotify became impossible only image boards and blogs as far as internet entertainment.
>>25090693It's not an addiction, it's worse
>>25090693Me, I did. I'm not an author though.But I'm still on 4chan more than I'd like. It's the last thing left because it's so quick and easy, I haven't figured it out yet. But I can handle the rest.
>>25091666that's how all addictions feel.it's an addiction.
>>25091196does he ever say anything back?
>>25090709OP is assuming everyone on this site is addicted
>>25091316pedo
>>25091235NTA. And I am Eastern anon, but I have definitely found that it is remaining in touch with the aspiration that precedes the change in the rest of… everything really. It's not the other way around, the other way around is not working precisely because it is lacking in the content, in being in touch, it is just blindly struggling against what is. I don't recall a whole lot, naturally given my rather low state in the current times.
>>25091882I like to call her "spiritually underage" because she's a failed womanchild >daddy issues>no drivers license>smells like cat piss>wears goth fashion yet listens to pop musicI'm a lucky guy
