Devices and Feelings.

Why allow vourself to be bored,feeling uncertain or some uncomfortable,negative emotion when you can pull out a device, something most of us never leave home without or be more than a few metres from, that can fill your brain with adventure and  informarion and entertainment, social commentary, news and more? Why allow yourself to be bored when you have at once again at your fingertips, access to  millions of self-help tips, advice from influencers, suggestions that will cure or alleviate that which you're finding distressing?

 Taking our minds off that which is unpleasant is very easy. Getting help is also, in many ways, very easy (not that I'm saying it's simple to overcome serious mental illness), just that it isn't hard to search for and to find tips and tricks that some search for and to find solace,distraction or remedy or suggestion that will cure all your ills!)

Typically when we experience distress ,negativity and uncertainity, we rarely sit still and feel those emotions. Instead we pull out our device and distract our minds.

Is this always wise?  How has this, I invite you to ponder, worked for you thus far?

( Extract from the book: Lost and Found by Dr Tim Sharp. Edited)