Manifesting Good Vibes in Social Media
Date 4/21/2023
Social Media can be a force for good… or not. It can be a breeding ground for insecurity and jealousy, and it can also bring people closer. When a friend or family member is jealous of what you share on social media, it can create friction in your relationship. When your significant other likes or comments on photographs or posts in a way that makes you uncomfortable, it can lead to arguments. When you can't interpret the tone of a post, update, pin, or tweet things can get a bit tricky. And social comparison can lead to insecurity and depression.
The Challenge of a Curated Social Media Life
It's affirming when someone likes, reacts to, or comments on something you've posted. That validation can become addictive, and most people find they want more of it even though it isn't real. You might even skew your posts toward what you think will give you the most affirmation. You don't have to be a wordsmith or a professional photographer to create posts and images that highlight only what you want others to see. Simple photo filters make it easy to alter your appearance. You can remove your perceived imperfections and smooth out any irregularities you might want to hide, but if you go overboard, you'll erase your unique beauty. You may miss out on the ability to make deeper connections with others over issues that everyone experiences.
Social Media and Self Esteem
The evidence is mounting that social media can have devastating effects on self-esteem. These are just a few signs that social media is having a negative impact on how you feel about yourself.
- Do you use social media to compare yourself to others? The photos and status updates of your friends should have no bearing on how you feel about yourself. Avoid the comparison game by listing the things for which you’re grateful. You may feel tempted to share them on social media, but resist the urge. Simply write them down and keep them close at hand. Pull them out when you feel tempted to hop online and compare your life to your friends’ Facebook posts.
- Do you find yourself checking social media around the clock? Spending lots of time at once on social media or checking in multiple times day and night shows an unhealthy need for validation from others and an obsession with managing your online identity. Studies show up to half the people who use these sites believe social media is having a negative impact on their self-esteem. They place too much importance on relationships and interactions that happen over social media.
Instead of obsessively checking social media platforms, look to the future. Engage in an online psychic chat to get a sense of what lies ahead instead of being so concerned about the here and now. These are ways to force yourself to take a step back from what could be a social media addiction.
- Do you spend more time online and ignore people IRL? By its very name, social media implies it’s all about connecting with other people. However, if you spend so much time on social media that you avoid being with people in real life (IRL), there's a problem.
Walk away from the computer and call a loved one. Get outside or away from home, and leave the phone in the car. By being with someone who loves you, you’re sure to give your self-esteem a healthy boost.
- Does social media impact your mood? If your mood changes with the posts and pictures that friends share on social, your self-esteem is too closely tied to your online persona. Maintain a healthy perspective about how people use social media. Something they post may unintentionally hurt your feelings. Learn to brush it off and move on.
Perhaps the easiest way to decrease the divide between real life and your social media life is to spend less time online. Try setting a social media schedule for yourself, and build in long periods of time or even entire days when you don't log in. Over time, you'll decrease your dependence on social media and stop seeking virtual affirmation.
This is where the hard work truly begins. To be happy in the long run, you'll need to inwardly provide the affirmation you seek rather than looking outward. It all comes down to self-love.
Social Media, Your Vibration and Manifestation
So, how do you use social media for good? It may surprise you, but there is a way social media can be your secret and powerful tool. How? If you believe in any form of manifesting via personal or collective intent, or by way of adjusting what you focus on, you will begin to see that what you pay attention to the most, grows. It's a fundamental principle of the Law of Attraction - what we think about expands. Like attracts like. Positivity begets positivity. Our thoughts impact our emotions which in turn impacts our vibration.
We are always co-creating, often without even being aware.
When it Comes to Social Media, We Have Choices…
- We have access to adjusting what is in our news feeds. We can tune into the world news that makes the world seem more dangerous and scary, or like a lot of content that's cute and funny till the algorithm adjusts. We can comment and emphasize a particular energy OR calm other energies down. Choose to use social media in ways that raise your vibration.
- We can rant, vent, and share our negativity and talk about our fears or how we believe things may unfold OR we can be a positive force in a world that perhaps could be used to think outside of the box, dream and contemplate stories that have happy endings.
- We can post and comment on the positive OR the negative.
- We can create OR tear down.
We have choice.
While social media is not real life, it certainly can reflect real life... and as we practice having conscious intent here, that conscious intent becomes a pattern and that pattern will follow us out into the day-to-day real world.
Be a positive force, write happy endings, find the silver lining, and provide hope to yourself and to those you are connected with. Life is not always fair or easy, and while we cannot control what is handed to us, we can make it like a social media post and decide if we are going to frame it as the victim, the survivor, or the thriver. As the social persona or the authentic human being.
Use social media to uplift your vibration, and watch your manifestation practice improve.
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