Many of us fear computers – as well as their counterparts in the digital world. I am a very computer savvy kinda guy. I work with two different monster computers all day and evening long, every day – one in my office and another super computer in my recording studio. I’m good at it. I’ve been doing it for over 30 years.

I bought my first computer back in the early Eighties, a 128 KB “Thin Mac” that then, in the next generation, became the “Fat Mac” and had a rousing 512 KB of memory. :o)

I’ve been buying new Macs ever since.

And yet, it’s true. Sometimes even I am afraid of my computer.

Why?

Fear of the great unknown.

No matter how smart you are, there’s always something you don’t know. And it’s that ‘unknown’ that we fear.

Can I figure this out? Can I learn this new app? Is this new whamzatter way above my head? I have no one to turn to for help. I don’t know how I’ll ever do this by myself!

Sound familiar?

Technology befuddles us all, yet many of us have to deal with it every day. Its plusses are amazing, marvelous, very cool; and its minuses are frustrating and sometimes downright scary.

What we forget, when we are afraid, is that all this digital stuff — computers, software, digital appliances, the Internet — all that scary stuff … came originally from Mind. And since Mind was and is the inventor and originator of the digital world, then it is Mind that is the ultimate governor of the digital world.

So let’s start at the beginning. What is Mind? Some say Mind is God! Some say Mind is intelligence. Some, Mind is the creative source of all things. Some, higher conscious thought. I tend to agree with all the “Somes.”

One thing for sure: All great ideas start in Mind.

When we become afraid, we lose consciousness of this simple fact. We get lost in the fear, we panic, we doubt, we mistrust our own intelligence and lose track in its source in the confusion that is perpetrated by fear.

False Evidence Appearing Real

And so we come up with a lot of false evidence in our fears that even further confuse the issues.

Often “time”, or the lack thereof, then steps in to even further confuse consciousness and then, of course, we’re really sunk. Sunk. Interesting word here. “Sunk.” Not elevated, but sunk down into the mire of panic, doubt and confusion.

Most of know that the digital world is nothing more than a series of numbers placed in rows – actually just a series of zeros and ones (offs and ons) that symbolize or stand for ideas which somehow manifest, simply by their order, tools that are meant to help us in life.

Somehow we human beings came up with this idea and invented the digital world. The technology has gotten so far over our heads that only a rare few really know how it all works.

But then most of us don’t know how our cars really work, or our televisions or our electricity … or our bodies. The truth is we just trust that they do work and go on about our lives hoping they don’t break down. We do simple maintenance to keep things going smoothly, but that’s about all.

I run my own highly technical recording studio on my own. I built it, designed it, wired it and maintain it on my own because when something malfunctions, I have to fix it. I’ve learned to handle all these jobs myself because when something does go wrong, I don’t want to have to call in a technician and wait for him or her to get here and then pay them $150 an hour to get the job done.

Also, because I run my own studio now as an exclusively private studio, I’m the only one who works in it and so it is very seldom that something breaks or goes wrong because I respect it like no others ever would.

I pray for my studio. If you think that’s weird, so be it, but why not? I pray for divine order. I pray that intelligence governs the space, that all those little zeros and ones stay in their divine order and perform the ideas that they were originally meant to represent. There are billions of the numbers that go to work the moment I hit the switches that turn on my studio. If one of those billions of numbers gets misplaced, then things begin to dissolve into trouble. That concept alone is scary, so I pray to know that God’s intelligence that created the idea in the first place maintains its order and functionality.

I’m not going to trust the hardware. I’m going to trust and have faith in the intelligence. That is the creator. And the hardware, the software and all the machines simply reflect the stability of this higher intelligence, this higher Mind.

So I pray for my studio just as you might pray for your family or your state of mind or your body.

But inevitably, as so often happens in life on Planet Earth, trouble seems to raise its silly grin and try to challenge us. This happened to me just last weekend.

Stick around for the happy ending coming up in Healing The Digital World — Part 2