Information Addiction is Sabotaging Your Life
Get in your BODY and HEART. Transcend your thinking mind. Take massive ACTION.
Note: I highly recommend reading this entire essay, as there is a ton of gold in here.
Here’s why information addiction is sabotaging you, and why you need to do more than simply read the internet in isolation:
Information is not enough.
This is a great trap for the internet generation(s).
In the post-internet era, it’s easy to get stuck in a perpetual info-gathering loop.
Reading yet another blog post.
Watching yet another YouTube video.
Doomscrolling Twitter or IG or FB for another 4 hours.
“Just a little more info…”
“Just a little more info…”
“Just a little more info and then I’ll be ready…”
Yet the moment of readiness never comes.
There is just more info-gathering.
And more.
And more.
Always more information to gather.
This keeps you trapped at the level of the conceptual mind.
We must go beyond the conceptual mind.
Our culture cherishes the conceptual mind, worshipping it as the pinnacle of intelligence in the cosmos.
Truth be told, there are levels of intelligence infinitely more powerful than the conceptual mind.
The conceptual mind is a great tool, yet it must be dethroned.
It is a beautiful servant and a terrible master.
Mankind *can* access the infinite holistic all-synthesizing intelligence of reality itself.
The intelligence that is continuously orchestrating and harmonizing numberless experiential threads to seamlessly render this moment in HD clarity in/as conscious-energy-ness.
The intelligence of reality itself, is capable of processing and factoring limitless quantities of data instantaneously. It is continuously doing this.
You have access to this primordial intelligence.
It is accessed through your intuition, through your heart, through your body, through your gut, through your bones.
Ancient intelligence.
To access this intelligence, you must do more than simply gather more and more information.
You must engage in *practices*—such as prayer, breathwork, meditation, heart-tapping, shaking, dancing, drumming, singing, chanting, communal-tribal ceremonies, wise entheogenic usage, cacao-drinking, art-creation, spontaneous silliness, non-linear whimsy, martial arts, physical training, sauna, sweat lodge, cold exposure, nature-immersion, massage, etc.—that get you *out* of your conceptual mind and allow all the energy concentrated in your head to move *down* into your heart and body.
I cannot tell you which practices will be most powerful for you. That is for you to discover through experimentation.
If you do not do this, you are severely handicapping yourself. You are cutting yourself off from your most profound intelligence and soul-level knowing.
Most of our civilization is stuck at the level of the conceptual mind. Our energy is hugely over-concentrated in the head, and we can see the devastating results of this imbalance all around us.
People on the whole look weak.
They look sick. They’re fat, slow, pasty, devitalized. They’re depressed and anxious.
The planet basically resembles a massive indoctrination & enslavement & control system in which most people spend most of their waking hours doing shit they hate, which pads the pockets of a tiny elite at the top and perpetuates the rape & devastation of our Mother Earth.
*This is literally because we are not connected to our hearts, our bodies, our souls, our Creator-Source*.
Depression and physical illness are simply the body’s way of SCREAMING at you that you have long been ignoring its deeper knowing and intelligence. It has tried to send you (subtle) signals for a long time, but you have not heeded the message, because you are over-fixated at the level of the conceptual mind. Thus, the body starts to rebel. It starts to *refuse* to keep living a life that is utterly misaligned at the level of your heart and soul.
We are in the midst of a gargantuan epidemic. People’s bodies are SCREAMING out en masse that this civilizational condition IS NOT WHAT WE’RE MEANT FOR.
And what is our civilization’s response?
Prescription drugs!
We’ve been brainwashed into believing that ‘doctors’ are actual healers, so billions of people are trusting doctors to heal their bodies’ maladies. A small minority of doctors are genuinely wise healers, and most of them are well-intentioned people.
Unfortunately, though, they have been deeply indoctrinated into a ‘healthcare’ paradigm that *does not address the root causes of disease*. Their paradigm simply tells them to prescribe ever-more experimental pills & research chemicals, which *numb the symptoms rather than addressing the root*, and come with a whole host of shitty side effects.
So, instead of properly listening to the screams of our bodies, we’re just popping galactic quantities of experimental research chemicals to numb and deafen the screams.
*This shit ain’t working*. Obviously.
Fucking *obviously*.
This topic is really personal for me, as I have family members who have been severely and negatively impacted by the ‘healthcare’ & pharmaceutical industry’s idiotic and corrupt insistence that pills are the answer to all health issues.
Anywho, all of this is to say that *true healing* begins when we start to remember how to listen to the immeasurable intelligence of the body, heart, and soul. When we do practices like the ones I listed above. When we go on retreat and *make space* for slowness, stillness, process, release, & re-attunement. When we *reconnect* to God through the portal of our own hearts, and *listen deeply* to what God is guiding us to do.
And not only *listen* to the guidance, but actually *ACT* on it.
Which brings me to my next point…
We must take massive ACTION.
This is huge.
The biggest trap of perpetual information-gathering is that *it stops us from ever taking ACTION*.
“Just a little more info…”
“Just a little more info…”
“Just a little more info…”
Our education system feeds into this.
We spend *~15-20 FUCKING YEARS* simply swallowing and regurgitating massive quantities of mostly-impractical information *WITHOUT EVER ACTUALLY FUCKING ACTING ON ANY OF IT*.
Pardon my French, but this is a FUCKING DUMB way of doing things.
Almost makes you wonder if the system isn’t *actually* designed to create empowered, illuminated human beings, but rather to create drone-like conformists who feel incapable of doing anything other than obeying the instructions of authority figures…
*ACTION* is how we fucking *LEARN*.
How we really and truly *LEARN*.
We are EXPERIENTIAL creatures.
We need to DIG IN and GET OUR HANDS DIRTY to *actually* master anything.
Yet most of us are so scared to even TRY.
We’ve been programmed with this deep wound of ‘perfectionism’ and this deep fear of ‘failure.’
This wounding says, “Oh GOD NO, surely I can’t take massive ACTION. I might fail. It might not be perfect. People might laugh at me or reject me. No, no, no, I better just stay over here, safe and sound in my little box, where no one will notice me.”
We *MUST* obliterate this programming if we wish to heal this planet and be the creative leaders that we truly are.
And the way to do that is by diving in and TAKING ACTION.
Realize as deeply as you can that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ‘FAILURE.’
‘FAILURE’ IS ONLY FEEDBACK.
EVERYTHING IS SIMPLY A LEARNING EXPERIENCE PROVIDING VALUABLE DATA.
If you can make this shift, it will completely revolutionize your life.
“The difference between a master and a novice is that the master has ‘failed’ more times than the novice has even tried.”
And yet the master has not *actually* failed. He’s just conducted *way more experiments*. He’s iterated *way more times*. That is why he is masterful.
*YOU CAN DO THIS*.
One step at a time.
You simply start to *ACT*.
It doesn’t have to be massive at first. It can begin as small steps outside your comfort zone.
Then you *keep doing it*. You keep going. You keep iterating. You keep learning. You get in the habit of perpetual iteration. Perpetual delivery. Perpetual experimentation.
As you do this, the perfectionism wound and fear of failure will certainly come up. And that is your chance to heal and release and alchemize this stuff.
That is your chance to *hold everything in Love*. Hold it *all* in Love. Whatever is coming up. Welcome it all to the table. As if each wounded piece were your own wounded child knocking on the window of your awareness, simply seeking your loving acknowledgement. Simply seeking to be affirmed and assured that she is enough and perfect as she is and that *anything* she creates is *wonderful*. Simply seeking to be cradled in Love.
You *act* continuously, and you heal *through* the process of action.
As action-taking brings up all your unresolved STUFF, you ALCHEMIZE it all in real time through Loving Presence, transmuting pain into Heart-Led Power and Purpose.
This is how you become a master.
This is how you become what you truly are.
What God intended you to be.
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If this post resonated…
If you are called to do the real work…
If you are called to reconnect to your deeper intelligence…
If you are called to start taking *consistent action* and become a living master…
Don’t pass this up, my friend.
We are about to *do it together*.
We are about to hold each others’ hands…
Have each others’ backs…
Walk each other home…
As we undertake *practices* and *experiments* and *projects* *together*.
You *will not* find this elsewhere at this price point. Other people charge $100s or $1,000s per month for similar offerings, and in most cases their depth of understanding is not on par with mine. Might sound arrogant, but it’s simply a fact.
*DO NOT* underestimate the potency of MENTORSHIP & TRIBE when it comes to doing this work.
The sad fact is that 99% of people are so fully indoctrinated into a deep well-like mental prison that they have no hope of excavating their way out of it on their own.
*YOU NEED TO FIND THE OTHERS*.
*YOU NEED TO BE IN A GROUP ENERGY FIELD WITH OTHERS WHO ARE DOING THE WORK AND VISCERALLY SHOWING YOU THAT IT IS TRULY POSSIBLE*.
If it’s not with me, find it somewhere else. Very, very few people can do this alone. And if they can, it still takes way longer.
There’s a reason why I have invested ~$25k in group and 1:1 containers the past few years. Same reason I ongoingly invest four-figure sums per year in leadership-training containers:
This shit *works*.
It’s fucking powerful. There are a lot of bullshit offerings out there, to be sure, but if you find the good ones, they are *enormously fucking valuable* and *totally fucking worth it*.
TCA is one of the good ones.
I’ve never been more deeply in integrity with the work I’m doing, and trust me, I am about to show up and BRING IT.
So, if you feel *any kind of spark* around this…
LISTEN TO YOUR HEART-SOUL-GUT AND TAKE THE LEAP!
It’s $38/month. That’s, like, the price of one nice restaurant dinner per month. No offense, but you likely spend $38/month on all sorts of dumb shit.
How about *actually* investing that money in *yourself* and your own *evolution*?
How about betting your chips *on yourself* for once?
How *powerful* might that be for you?
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That’s ~EIGHT live group sessions per month, led by me and sometimes guest facilitators.
These sessions will contain SO MUCH VALUE.
If you can make it to AT LEAST ONE PER WEEK of these recurring weekly live group sessions, and you show up consistently, you’re going to see powerful shifts and results in your life.
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So, yeah, need I say more, fam?!
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Love,
JB
Jordan Bates
Leadership & Creativity Coach
Authenticity | Integrity | Heart | Courage | Freedom