10 Tips for Handling Social Media as a Spiritual Seeker

July 10th, 2020

By Nikki Harper

Staff Writer for Wake Up World

Social media and other online platforms are a ubiquitous part of modern life, and the connectivity they provide has done a great deal of good in the world. However, most of us can cite many examples where someone online has been rude or hostile to us, or where we’ve been made to feel bad by a stranger sat at their phone or keyboard many miles away. Not to mention that irritated feeling you probably get when people on the internet are, y’know, wrong. And many of us probably feel that many of them are wrong much if not most of the time.

In a 2019 survey, 38% of Americans felt that social media had a negative impact on their mental health [1]. Whether you feel bullied or belittled by something you see, or whether you feel outranged and infuriated, social media use can definitely stir up a host of negative feelings on a daily basis.

Spiritual Communities and Social Media

It would be lovely if spiritual people and spiritual communities were somehow immune from the negativity that social media can spawn, but they most definitely are not. I’ve been around spiritual communities online since online was a thing, and in my experience, they are just as full of forcefully opinionated people, who are sometimes rude and hostile to one another, and who sometimes bully other people – often while proclaiming themselves to be ‘love and light’ or the sole holders/understanders of ‘truth’. After all, spiritual people can hold the same wide spectrum of political, religious and personal views as any other cross-section of society.

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