The life you want is waiting in the silence

People are too stimulated.

All these tantalising escapes and solutions to our boredom.

Seems good. Seems progressive.

But…

Not great for our minds.

I see friends who used to be bookworms never touch a book.

I see people who spend hours watching YouTube videos or Netflix shows each week.

That’s hours they could have spent creating things, inventing, hiking, meeting people, building brands and businesses and working on projects that improve the world.

I see depressed teenagers for whom the thought of leaving their phone for five minutes sounds like a form of ancient Japanese torture.

I now see depressed adults, hopeless, no sense of purpose and close to zero drive to do anything vaguely creative or ambitious.

Things aren’t all good in the hood.

Modern life insists that boredom be a thing of the past.

Entertainment is instant, notifications are endless, and cheap dopamine is there at the click of a button.

Dr. Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation explains why this is a problem.

Your brain runs on a balance of pleasure and pain, like a seesaw.

The more you push the pleasure side (social media, binge-watching, junk food, quick entertainment), the more your brain tilts toward pain when the stimulation stops.

That’s why so many people feel anxious, restless, and dissatisfied.

The mind is no longer comfortable in reality.

In silence. In natural beauty.

But here’s both the problem AND the opportunity for all of us.

Our minds are distracted and overstimulated.

This means we’ve lost touch with our inner creative flow. Our inner wisdom. Our inner genius.

This is where passion and ambition and energy thrive.

We keep smashing our brains with fake dopamine.

This robs us of all of this.

SO…

The opportunity.

The edge many of us need is found closer to silence.

We need to rewind.

We need to become conscious again.

Aware of when we’re falling into the shiny allure of modern, digital stimulation:

• P*rn

• Games

• TV

• Social media

• Junk food

Turn down the volume of all of these.

We really need to.

It won’t be easy.

It can be done in little steps:

• Replace videos with real books again.

• Learn how to overthink less

• Go on walks without headphones.

• Meditate instead of video games (at least occasionally)

And slowly balance is restored.

Since holding off many of these attractive distractions and meditating more, my creativity is insane.

I’m more connected. I’m way happier.

Allow more silence and stillness in.

Joy, real creativity and a renewed lust for life are hiding here.

Want to discover more about how you can quickly heal your mind with an absence of high-volume thinking?

Learn more about the Untethered Mind course here.