As technology accelerates our lives, many of us feel an urgent need to get off the grid, slow down, feel safe and loved. Did you know that researchers in the new field of ‘interruption science’ have found that it takes an average of 25 minutes to recover from a simple telephone call?
Consider how many calls, texts, and emails you make and receive in a day. We might be feeling that we never have enough time to catch up. So our thoughts spin a million miles a minute with no easy way out. Some may consider getting off the grid physically, by running away to a tropical island, or moving to the mountains and settling into a small little cabin where no one can find you. Instead, it invites us to stay in the midst of the chaos and use all the varied scenes of life to pull us deeper into acknowledging why living a life of love is so essential to our basic survival.
It might seem we are in control, holding our smartphones and communicating with the world on Twitter or Facebook with a simple click. But stand at a further distance from all the messaging, deadlines, challenges in relationships, financial insecurity, and distractions from the very presence of a homeless person begging on the street to a new Tesla on the highway. Our consciousness is constantly bombarded with and crowded by countless things that do not bring us peace or clarity.
The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU) is an international non-governmental organisation, which intends to help individuals re-discover and strengthen their inherent worth by encouraging and facilitating a process of spiritual awakening.
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