How to earn a million rubles a month? How to visualize your desires? How to live a conscious life? All these and other questions can be answered in social networks — by pseudo-coaches, psychologists and businessmen. In general, those who are commonly called infogypsies. Why exactly do they annoy us?
Mindfulness is a term from modern psychology, which means that a person learns to live «Here and now»without returning to the past and not replacing the present with the future. An excellent term, if it did not sound from every iron.
So why is this word and the people who use it annoying us so much? Why are we generally annoyed by those who share knowledge about achievement «a better life»? There are three reasons for this.
1. Information noise
In an age when everyone can become an Instagram guru (an extremist organization banned in Russia) and not a day goes by without a new marathon «conscious life», most people want to close their ears and finally stop hearing about flows, vibrations, attunement … To just live, just breathe, just be a person.
Here a basic comparison with a cake comes to mind: if we eat one piece, it will be delicious, but if we eat a kilogram, then we will have a completely different reaction. The glut and who exactly uses all these terms make them taboo in polite society.
2. Hypocrisy
I mean situations where the picture does not match the content. When “conscious”, “high-vibration” people in ordinary life do not lead the same lifestyle that they broadcast to others: they drink alcohol, swear, discuss neighbor Oksana. But on Instagram (an extremist organization banned in Russia) they try to show themselves as perfect, which is what annoys them.
Imagine nurse Tamara getting up at 6 am for work. She wakes up a sleepy child, drags him on a sled through the snowdrifts and, already tired, comes to work at the hospital by 8:00. He opens social networks, and there happy people who live off their stories about awareness broadcast about shavasana and tantric sex in the morning. It is not surprising that they cause not at all positive emotions in a woman.
Remember: modern reality is illusory, and demonstrating your lifestyle as the only correct one is utopian. A truly conscious person will never call everyone and everyone to choose his path. Guide and support — yes. But these words are not in trend now.
3. Substitution of concepts
I admit, it starts to shake me when a person justifies his lateness to a meeting with retrograde Mercury, a leap year, or other phenomena beyond his control. It would be better if he admitted that he was not punctual and did not know how to calculate the time.
Admit better that you are not punctual and do not know how to calculate the time. Although it is much easier to blame everything on the stars and other unscientific facts. However, the truth of life is that only responsibility leads to guaranteed results.
To imitate someone in order to have an absolutely identical life is detrimental to our psyche. But to work on oneself, to get an education, to read, to develop is useful and far-sighted. If you have embarked on this path, then among the million infogypsies you will definitely find your mentor and motivator.
After all, truly conscious people are beautiful. They are comfortable with them, they are easy-going and know how to appreciate others. With them, it is really easier to achieve results. And they are unlikely to speculate on their «awareness».