The Danger of Distraction and How to Overcome It

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@TheTransfiguredLife Ай бұрын

Two great resources to check out! ⬇️ Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine a.co/d/htKwutA The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness a.co/d/cUbJH89

@sundaybest27 Ай бұрын

Joyous Nativity Fast to Luther, Fr Jonathan and Fr Alexander!

@TheTransfiguredLife Ай бұрын

Blessed Fast to you as well! ☦️

@thattimestampguy 16 күн бұрын

2:02 From Orlando Florida. Assistant Priest. Former Philosophy of Theology Teacher. 2:32 Assisting The Rector. Overseeing Education, Catechism, Church School. 3:08 Philosophy. Classical Education. *On Distraction* 3:20 3:55 On Distraction in general. 4:15 Cultural Distraction. 5:11 Toddlers who have access to screens 📱 💻 6:32 “There is nothing new under the sun.” But… 7:36 Materially things are different. *Nature of Distraction* 8:22 Has the Nature of distractions changed? 9:59 Algorithms. 10:39 Addiction to Pleasure. 11:35 Self-Gratification changes the brain 🧠 your body forms itself to the things it consumes. It consumes you. • Little Effort • High dopamine payoff. 13:47 Hours on the phone 📱 *Attentiveness, Watchfulness* 14:25 Giving attention to other people. 15:35 Genuine Affection includes Attentivenss. 16:06 Ceaseless Prayer 🙏🏼 Unending Attentiveness. Attentiveness that can’t be broken. It rests in stillness between you and The Lord. 16:39 “The one who prays completely undistracted also truly loves God.” 17:24 If I am tied to any earthly thing, I don’t love God. 18:31 “Lay Aside All Earthly Cares.” 19:36 St Anthony The Great and The Hunter. 🏹 21:38 Rest from Labor. 22:41 We still are human. 23:07 Doing non spiritual stuff, even restful stuff, is not with God. 24:0 It takes time and practice to cultivate. There are sort of rhythms that we live. Very modes in which we as embodied beings we have to live in Communion with God. 25:14 Depends on how we may use it. 26:11 Practice leads to something. 26:23 they’re are few things The Church straight up condemns as evil, everything is good and made by God, it’s how we use it. 29:44 Struggles amongst 12-17 year olds in 2024. 31:42 Hesychasm. Stillness.

@TheTransfiguredLife 16 күн бұрын

You are the man!! Bless you! ☦☦☦

@thattimestampguy 16 күн бұрын

@ Thank you. Bless you as well.

@melissawade7212 3 күн бұрын

This has been my big struggle for this year's Advent fast, so this video was so welcomed and helpful for me. And it's good to know that I'm not the only Orthodox person who struggles with distraction from social media.

@TheTransfiguredLife 3 күн бұрын

You are not alone, my friend. It's a battle! I have incorporated many new habits since this episode, and yet it's still difficult! ☦

@jtnous Ай бұрын

Excellent topic -- one of the most important. Stillness - hesychasm is the principle of ascetic and monastic life (which is not limited to monks and nuns). "A brother came to Scetis to visit Abba Moses the Strong and asked him for a word. The old man said to him, 'Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.'" From "The Sayings of the DESERT FATHERS -- The Alphabetical Collection" Translated, with a foreword by Benedicta Ward, SLG Preface Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh First published in 1975 by Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo and A. R. Mowbray, Oxford

@sundaybest27 Ай бұрын

Dare I say, this was a pleasant distraction for husband and I on our way to the park and ice cream shop in the car instead of listening to "worldly music!" Keep up the insight!

@TheTransfiguredLife Ай бұрын

Haha thank you for sharing that. Fr.Alexander's wisdom has been helpful to me! ☦️

@VidBint Ай бұрын

I did NOT want to listen to this. I even got distracted a few times. That only made me realize just how much I need it & it’s been such a blessing! Thank you 🙏🏼☦️💖

@TheTransfiguredLife Ай бұрын

@@VidBint Haha thanks. Not our typical kind of episode but we're glad you benefitted and saw the importance of it! ☦️

@Zangified02 Ай бұрын

I needed this, thank you

@TheTransfiguredLife Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! We were praying it blessed someone ☦️

@Zangified02 Ай бұрын

@ 🙏🏾Glory to GOD

@DM100 Ай бұрын

Have a blessed Nativity Fast everyone! Include social media and tv if you dare;) 🙏🏻❤️☦️🙃

@TheTransfiguredLife Ай бұрын

Blessed Nativity Fast to you as well fam! ☦️

@alidaweber1023 Ай бұрын

71F here. I get distracted at least as much when I don't have any digital media around. My mind just seems to associate freely from one thought to the next before I realize it. Usually not sinful thoughts, just random day to day observations and memories. To be honest, most of my distractions come from inside myself. But then, I don't watch TV/streaming shows or movies or sports. I hardly ever listen to broadcast radio. I don't have satellite or cable. I watch educational stuff on YT and that's about it.

@TheTransfiguredLife Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Was the decision for removing streaming/TV due to trying to intentionally avoid the harms of excessive use or are those things just not a draw for you?

@alidaweber1023 Ай бұрын

@TheTransfiguredLife I couldn't stand to watch it anymore. Too many blatant lies and false allegations in the news media. Comedy is pretty much dead because of fear of cancelation. Nobody on the left can take a joke, unless it's directed at conservatives. The drama and reality shows are mostly tawdry and dirty. There is rarely anything uplifting, and most shows promote a purely secular and materialistic world view. When anything spiritual is mentioned, including at Christmas time, heretical oe even pagan beliefs arise unchallenged. Sports have gotten political, so they're no fun to watch anymore. I also refuse to support the media conglomerates.