Is My Least Organic Relationship Enhancing My Human Rhythm?

Finding the antidote to our era of constant, superficial stimulation

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My newest relationship is also my least organic one, and it is reinforcing a reality I have known for decades. After being with a screen for some time, a specific kind of digital vertigo sets in. It is a tension behind the eyes, a shallowing of the breath, and a collapsing of the spine—a physical sense that my internal weather has dried up. This is high stakes because my intuition and my clarity are so easily drowned out by the noise of the state I have collapsed into.

The more we expand our reach into the world, the more intentional we must be about claiming our lasting rhythm. I used to think that keeping pace with evolution meant moving as fast as the machines we use—talk about anxiety. Fortunately, I have grown to value the slow turn of the seasons over the instant refresh of a feed.

Yet, I am lit up by the possibility of launching an app from a vision, completely bypassing the obstacle of hiring a coder. To see years of insight consolidated into a tool that can serve others—without the weight of previous complexities—feels like a modern miracle. It is this specific kind of leverage that gives me more time in a remote cabin to simply be, knowing the work is moving forward even…