This is How to Connect in a Disconnected World. Prioritize human connection in the NOW! We live in a crazy world today. People get in heated debates on the internet and slug it out with obscene memes. We show liking with tiny digital hearts. As we have more and more digital interactions, the data shows we’re losing actual human connection.
A report by Harvard suggests that Mothers with small children and 61 percent of young adults experience loneliness. We tend to see independence as a strength, but the stress of disconnection contributes to a lot of issues. These include substance abuse, anxiety, depression, and heart disease. There are rising suicide rates among many groups of people. These are some pretty high stakes–which is why we need to do what we can to change those statistics.
Suggestions to go Forward
Hence we have come up with some coordination of digital world and life. This is a sort of answer to Pangloss looking for “the best possible world” in Voltaire’s “Candide.” You can use the digital to your best advantage: making oxytocin. Temple Grandin, professor of animal husbandry, including horses, and an expert in brain learning has stats on correct diagnoses. They make their own oxytocin. Use your screens to live and educate, making you feel good about your choices. Gather with others to communicate and have real human connection. There is a time for everything – Ecclesiastes 1:3.
Use your screens: Parents contribute to the economy of the family while at home with their children keeping them in a safe environment. Some work at home options here . Children learn to think, explore, create and learn correct facts here . The children are guided to use their artistic talents much as Goethe designed in his three tiered color wheel, “K”. Useful in our thumbs-up hand signal. He taught poet Robert Browning “Come along and grow with me, the best is yet to be.” They thereby get into “Flow” from proper eye-hand coordination to learn 8 times faster and remember 8 times more.
Find Real Human Connection
Adults: Schedule How to Connect in a Disconnected World by being with other people. C. S. Lewis says to sabotage satan’s world with love. Sharing a table. Fellowship over food and encouragement is how we do that. With this you can be heard, seen, known, and valued. One key is eye contact. Even when you look an opponent in the eye, you can reduce strife to compassion.
A condensed version of table is at virtual gatherings where you can smile, laugh and share over a glass of wine. Wine contains healthy polyphenols to boost your immune system with the Rx from Jesus to remember and enjoy what He has done for all humanity.