Is Facebook, twitter, a computer, or a cell phone the barrier between you and the outside world? Are sophisticated technological contraptions your gatekeepers? You know, the obstacles that stand guard at the portals to reality?
Mind numbing fixations by advanced technology leads to nature deficit disorder. But nature is the foundation to our home in the universe. If we don’t take care of it, we will lose it.
Computer screen oriented technologies is not the same as natural tool oriented technologies. One is a simulation that takes place only in the mind, the other is a real world experience that engages the mind with physical activity. Knowing without doing, only leads to stagnation of human health and degradation of the soul.
What is your gatekeeper? Most folks forget or do not realize they even have one. Often they are ghost-like and merely a step beyond perceptible. But, bringing them to your awareness is the first step in getting control, or at least managing them, so that all your time is not absorbed into unreal worlds of data streams.
Doing and being is real world living. This is quite different from fantasy, where illusions and delusions fill our mind and take us to an unreal world. Often this is where our machines take us. We begin to live our world through screens and devises where the dance becomes one between the human mind and data of the machine. It is a trap we get caught in where we live in a world of imagination, and forget about stepping out of the distraction to walk on the real ground. Only on terra firma can we feel the earth beneath our feet and kick up dust.
Living a personal dream is dancing the dance. It is a laying-down of our own tracks upon the soil. Action is the catalyst to change one event into another, beyond which they become experiences that give meaning to our lives. Participating in the here and now to engage raw nature builds personal history. History is where our memories go to make sense of the future, or should, if we wish to employ the gift of wisdom to lead the way. Otherwise the bad things we experience and wish to avoid will inevitably get repeated again.
(How you jump-start your kid matters)
Real world activities lead to compassion, while living only in the mind on computer world experiences leads to separation from nature. Our human nature is nurtured by real world nature. To care for something, one must have compassion. True feelings come from the act of feeling. Emotion and feeling come from real world touching, not thinking about them. The image staring back at you in the mirror is not you. When you touch that finger in the mirror, you feel only your own finger, not that of the image of it. All life experiences are the same.
Passion and compassion ride either side of the dragon’s back. One stimulates the self while the other creates empathy for others. Bottomline: transform the data stream into a river stream and ride the ride.
Stick your feet into the river.
Or walk on water.
River Time with Nature's Apprentice 
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