Inner Peace

Avoiding television, radio, smartphones, social media, and most internet use can benefit your mind greatly and help you hear God clearly. Hearing God clearly often stems from a desire to reduce distractions and cultivate inner peace. 

Let's break this down logically and practically.

Your mind thrives on focus and clarity. Television bombards you with rapid images, ads, and narratives often designed to hook your attention rather than enrich your thoughts. Studies suggest TV watching can increase stress, reduce attention span, and even disrupt sleep due to blue light exposure. Cutting it out frees up mental space, letting you reflect more deeply or rest more fully.

Smartphones and social media amplify this effect. They're engineered to keep you scrolling, endless notifications, dopamine hits from likes, and a flood of opinions. Research links smartphone use to anxiety, depression, and fragmented thinking. Avoiding them stops the noise, letting your brain process things at its own pace instead of reacting to constant pings.

The internet, while a tool, often pulls you into a vortex of information overload. Limiting use helps you prioritize real-world experiences or intentional learning over mindless browsing.
As for hearing God clearly, this ties to believers traditions that emphasize inner peace. The logic is that God's voice, whether literal or metaphorical, gets drowned out by media's chatter.

Mental Clarity: Television, radio, smartphones, and social media bombard you with constant stimuli, ads, opinions, news, and entertainment. Avoiding them gives your brain a break from overstimulation, improving focus, reducing anxiety, and allowing deeper self-reflection. Without the flood of information, you process your own thoughts more clearly.

Time for Inner peace: Believers traditions that emphasize hearing God, stress the importance of inner peace. Cutting out screens, radio and digital chatter creates space for prayer, meditation, or simply listening to your inner voice, which is divine guidance.

Avoid Comparison and Noise: Social media often fuels envy, insecurity, or a sense of inadequacy by showcasing fake lives. Avoiding helps you stay grounded in your own reality, fostering contentment and a stronger connection to personal or spiritual values.

Control Over Influences: TV, radio and internet content shapes your worldview subtly, sometimes clashing with personal beliefs. Avoiding exposure lets you curate what enters your mind, aligning it with what you consider true and sacred.


Natural Rhythm: Without social media, radio and screens dictating your attention, you reconnect with slower, more natural rhythms, conversation, nature, rest and inner peace. This feels restorative and closer to a state where spiritual insight flows.