The Mind-Will-Emotions triangle as a self spiritual check-up

The traditional way of seeing the soul is through a tripartite classification:

• Mind as the seat of intellect and rational thinking
• Will as the ability of applying ideas and plans into practice
• Emotions as the affective forces that drive us toward or away from people, ideas, things

Once you view yourself in this way, you can start doing a spiritual check-up on yourself regularly. Any dependency, and techalcoholism is no exception, leads to the soul losing control over the body. The soul, as the superior part of the being, should always be in control over the body, but this is no longer the case with persons affected by techalcoholism. The damage caused by techalcoholism can be seen on all 3 levels of the soul:

• Mind: it distorts your thinking and makes you believe things and ideas that, under normal circumstances, you would never accept
• Will: it corrupts and weakens your decision making process so that you are less and less able to define and reach goals
• Emotions: it deteriorates your emotional state by making you feel tense, easily irritated, impatient, lustful, fearful, hopeless, apathetic, etc

The bottom line is to doubt yourself, your thinking, your decisions, your emotions, and to understand it has all been corrupted at some point by your tech dependencies. Understanding where you are is the first step toward remediation.

Fasting

Any kind of bad dependency means that some kind of material object holds control over the mind. In the case of techalcoholism, the material object can be any kind of device of tech equipment, or the content that is consumed via it. In other words, you become addicted to something to the point that, even if you acknowledge you are harming yourself through your habit, you feel there is nothing you can do about it, you just cannot stop. Your physical side has complete dominance over your spiritual side.

One of the few ways to break this self-harming cycle is through fasting. Fasting is typically understood by people without a traditional religious background as a mere diet – refraining from eating meat and other animal-sourced foods – but, in the practice and tradition of Orthodox Christianity, it is a true science which, when performed in the right way under guidance, can help to break away from vices and dependencies and to better oneself: https://www.holyorthodox.org/fastingguidelines

Fasting is:

• an act of sabotage via which the mind regains control over the body
• an intentional and temporary weakening of the body to allow the weak mind to reassert itself
• a purification of the mind and body
• a way to get out of the materialism, consumerism and individualism that surrounds us and step into the more internally-oriented realm of fighting with your self: Unseen Warfare (Sursă: YouTube https://share.google/r0uUKBxw53qPMEjXm)
• for those who believe in Him or who are at least open to consider His existence, a method to get closer to God