Are you in fixed contact however are by no means actually linked? Do you electronic mail, textual content message and play countless cellphone tag with no outcomes or no satisfaction – simply extra messages? Are you extra intimately concerned with American Idol, the cable man and your iPod and iTunes than you’re with your loved ones and pals?
The high-tech world of isolationism and indifference continues to develop by leaps and bounds. Now do not get me mistaken – a terrific service is being supplied by all of this excellent expertise. It actually works nice for these of us that wish to order merchandise, do analysis on-line and supply or obtain info rapidly. Know-how provides us the flexibility to instant-message, ship emails world wide in a heartbeat, watch the area shuttle land in actual time wherever on planet earth and obtain the newest music on your listening pleasure – however at what worth?
Do Relationships Endure
Is it attainable that is only a generational factor – or is one thing going dramatically astray in each the non-public and enterprise communications and relationships enviornment? Are we, and have we been creating at the very least two generations of loners – adults, households, workers and kids – who’re so technologically oriented that they now not know how you can work together with members of the family, lecturers, friends and managers in a private face-to-face method?
Are relationships between youngsters and oldsters struggling on this impersonal, pre-recorded faceless world as a result of there now not is any actual reference to one another – no time to speak, no hugs, and no direct interplay? Are shopper/enterprise relationships struggling as a result of there isn’t any eye contact, no phone dialog the place you may hear the receptiveness of the voice on the opposite finish, and no visible physique language to look at? Are you, your youngsters, your workers so electronically linked and/or remoted that you’re don’t have any significant connections? The outcome:
o emotional isolation
o lack of purchasers and enterprise
o lack of interpersonal communication expertise
o lack of connection between mother and father and kids
o a collapse within the means to speak with civility
o an unbalanced life.
Some Feng Shui Options
All expertise may be very onerous impersonal power. The extra time spent with digital tools, toys and instruments, the upper the yang power and the additional one spirals into the world of isolation and indifference – and complete unbalance. A number of solutions primarily based on Feng Shui ideas observe to assist construct a bridge of steadiness from high-tech to emotional connection.
1. Offset the high-tech time by setting apart at the very least two hours per day the place you aren’t wired or linked electronically. Reserve that point to attach by one-on-one conversations with household, youngsters, pals, purchasers or co-workers.
2. As a result of speaking electronically is so very impersonal, shock a cherished one or shopper with an precise cellphone name as a substitute of “texting” or emailing. In the event you obtain a cellphone message from somebody – return it. You robotically obtain some satisfaction or emotional connection by listening to the message however the person who known as continues to be electronically impoverished, ready on your return name.
3. Cease, look and see. Have a look at what’s going on round you, in your environment, with your folks, along with your youngsters – see what is occurring in your atmosphere. Truly observing firsthand creates an emotional connection. This supplies a lot wanted grounding power – the yin kind tactile power wanted to steadiness the excessive yang power.
4. If you already know you’ll have a very high-tech day, put on clothes that can present you steadiness. The clothes greatest suited to do that is free becoming however not baggie and in various shades of earth tone colours – not too shiny. They’ll present you a lot wanted peaceable grounding power.
5. In case your each day routine is crammed with computer systems, tv, iPods, cell telephones and a numerous variety of different digital gadgets, be certain the colours on the partitions of your workplace or residence and your furnishings supplies you balancing power. Furnishings must be upholstered in soft earth tone colours or must be pure wooden. The partitions can be light earth tone colours or light inexperienced 폰테크.
These similar solutions apply to youngsters in addition to adults. When a baby is uncovered 24/7 to high-tech video games, toys, tv and on the spot communication instruments, they turn into hard-wired excessive power and really disconnected from their environment, mother and father and any image of authority. Whereas all of this expertise supplies a terrific babysitter – it additionally limits the kid’s means to speak and join with others.
Sure, our fantastic advances in expertise have supplied us a lot within the type of on the spot communication and being in contact. Nevertheless, nice care a lot be taken as we’re studying to make use of it to compensate for its onerous edged impersonal power.
The place to start is by being conscious of its downsides – after which creating steadiness by utilizing a couple of fundamental Feng Shui ideas.
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