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Everywhere we behold an experience. Movie houses
Byte-ing the Sacred Fruit:
Explaining Active Meditation
through the Lens of Digital Media
Joeridge Chua
Joeridge Chua
or football games produce the lights, sounds, the story,
the chills are all essential in making the experience
seem whole, enough for us to shell out good money.
Just being part of it all makes it memorable. Now
with all the media and technology made available
across geographical barriers, there seems to be
more connectedness in our experiences, whereas
singularity and visibility have taken a backseat. LED
screens, pop-up stores, tweets sounding off from
someone else’s mobile, among others, are sources
of happenings flashing in and out by the second.
Happenings and signals that do not seem to make
sense are seen as distractions. The real question is: how
do we spend our time to create meaningful moments
and enable us to have more of it? In addition, what is
human character in the face of an imposing enigma?
Do we simply become unoriginal in the process?
Normalcy is a basic need, and we condition our
mind with the amount of information we receive to
go about our day. Our five senses, however, prevent
us from completely isolating ourselves from the
physical world. For many Australians shopping is
seen as a chore. While we already have some items
Experience is something that you to purchase in mind, the presence of food samples
can’t easily take away from a and flashy promotion makes a mark on us even if our
human being. Whatever deliberate consumer response remains intact. The description
force is attempting to sway our might sound a little dystopian, but technology can
normal behaviour, it is by design also function as a companion. Just remember
that we think, act, care, and live on how much technology has made life easier, and
our own terms. We impart our time mindfulness shouldn’t always be practiced in isolation.
for things we believe are worthwhile. Mindfulness is prerequisite to achieving meditation
Moments are shared when an event regardless of context and surroundings. We use
surpasses our judgment and takes our devices at appropriate times in observance
away our senses. The multiplicity of our health and respect for others. Being mindful
of contemporary life unfolds an means listening closely to your body and performing
infinite number of new experiences. actions that would pre-empt any dysfunction. To
However, we can only take so much be in the moment, however, this isn’t enough as
in our day, and purpose diminishes we’d still be relying on activities to satisfy our ever-
when we stop taking care of our prevailing needs. Mediated form of meditation
mind. doesn’t suggest the person to suppress the senses
but to give in to what psychologists call synaesthesia.