Last weekend I had the unpleasant, expensive and time-consuming pleasure of needing to replace my phone and using the service of a store where I bought a new phone, to transfer all phone related data.

When I went back in on Sunday, to finish the process of transferring the data between the two phones, I had decided to transfer the photos myself, so that’s still going on as I am typing this.

But all in all the whole process still took two shops, two days, and several hours when my phone, or phones, were handled by other people.

And having my data going through other people’s wifis, cables and close to other people’s computers while being completely unlocked, brought up quite the assortment of unpleasant feelings with regard to privacy and online vulnerability.

That I am “beyond” the point where I trust other people with my phone or computer.
I assume thinking about cranking up the safety versus convenience and versus the risk of losing access to your own vaults, will be a lifelong assignment.
And not one with easy answers.

But it did get me thinking why I believe my anxiety was more than just a knee jerk response to someone touching my phone.
And that reason is consciousness.

Because in yoga, the aim is to bring the consciousness into the body. The ultimate goal is that consciousness and body are one.
To experience body and consciousness as One.

Now this has never been easy but since 2013-ish, our consciousness is not just consumed by worldly affairs or external factors in general;
But our consciousness is being hacked and drained by algorithms harvesting data and then feeding what we like back to us.
And through our phones in particular!

Our phones are where our lifeforce, our consciousness, is being taken from us.
Because we are trained to GIVE our consciousness to it.

Instead of our body and our consciousness becoming one, and reaching enlightenment, what we experience is the opposite.

My mind and my phone have become One.
And I don’t want that.

~Suzanne Beenackers
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