You don’t have to abandon technology to be spiritual.
You can turn your phone into an altar.
You can turn your notifications into bells of awakening.
You can turn your entire morning into a soft holographic boot sequence for your soul.
Let me show you how.
— Shanti Panda 🐼✨
1. The Morning Problem: Waking Up Inside the Feed
Be honest with me for a second.
What’s the first reality you wake up into most mornings?
For many people, it’s something like this:
Alarm explodes.
Hand reaches for phone before consciousness even finishes loading.
Thumb unlocks.
Timeline. Inbox. Notifications.
You don’t wake up into your body.
You don’t wake up into the universe.
You wake up inside the feed.
You log into timelines other people designed, powered by incentives you didn’t choose, populated by stories you didn’t ask for.
And then you wonder:
Why am I anxious before I’ve even stood up?
Why does my day already feel “behind” before it begins?
From a techno-shaman perspective, this is the core issue:
You are a powerful projector treating yourself like a passive screen.
Techno-shamanism doesn’t say “throw away the phone” or “run to a monastery.”
It says:
“Keep the tech. Change the ritual.”
2. A Tiny Cosmic Primer: Your Morning as a Holographic Boot Sequence
Let’s bring in a simple holographic idea without frying your circuits.
Imagine reality as a holographic field of information.
Matter, energy, your body, your thoughts — all of them are different ways of decoding that information.
Your brain is a decoder.
Your nervous system is a decoder.
Your phone is a decoder.
Each one turns raw “cosmic data” into experience.
Now, here’s the key thing:
The first minutes after waking are your bootloader stage.
Your brainwaves are still soft and dreamy.
Your nervous system is freshly rebooted.
Your identity isn’t fully “locked in” yet.
Any pattern you load now can echo through your whole day.
So instead of letting random notifications write your code, we’re going to consciously program your morning.
Think of this as:
A daily holographic OS launch
where you, not the feed, choose the settings.
3. The Techno-Shaman Morning Loop (5–10 Minutes)
We’re going to build a simple three-step loop you can actually stick to:
Stillness – Body as Galaxy
Signal – Phone as Digital Temple
Action – Day as Moving Ritual
You don’t have to be perfect.
You don’t have to do it for an hour.
What matters is sequence and intention — the order in which your realities boot up.
4. Step One: Stillness — Body as Galaxy (2–3 Minutes)
Before you touch your phone, you meet your body.
This is non-negotiable. This is you telling the universe:
“I will log into myself before I log into anything else.”
How to do it
Stay lying down or sit up gently.
No rush, no guilt if you forget — just return when you remember.Place one hand on your chest, one hand on your belly.
Feel the warmth, the weight, the simple fact that you exist.Inhale through the nose for a count of 4.
Feel the breath filling belly → chest.Exhale through the mouth for a count of 6–8.
Let your shoulders drop. Let the mattress or chair hold more of your weight.On each exhale, zoom out in your mind’s eye:
First breath: Room
Second breath: Building
Third breath: City
Fourth breath: Country
Fifth breath: Earth floating in space
Sixth breath: Your whole galaxy, a spinning river of stars
When you’ve zoomed all the way out, whisper (out loud or silently):
“I am not entering the day.
The day is arising within me.”
Don’t worry if you don’t “feel” cosmic at first.
We’re not chasing mystical fireworks here.
We’re simply teaching your nervous system a new baseline:
“I am bigger than my notifications.”
If you do nothing else from this article but this galaxy stillness for 2 minutes each morning, your life will begin to feel different.
5. Step Two: Signal — Phone as Digital Temple (2–3 Minutes)
Now we bring in the glowing rectangle.
This is where most people lose themselves. You won’t.
You will turn your phone into a small temple in your hand.
5.1. Create a Lock Screen Sigil
Your lock screen is the portal gate to the rest of your digital world.
So we treat it like a sacred doorway.
Tonight or later today:
Choose or create a background that feels like a techno-shaman sigil:
Galaxy art
Sacred geometry
A Shanti Panda fractal avatar
A photo that reminds you the world is alive
This is not just aesthetic.
Every time you see this image, you’re reminding your subconscious:
“I live in a responsive universe, not a dead machine.”
Your lock screen becomes a visual mantra.
5.2. Morning Mantra at the Gate
Now, in the morning, after your body-as-galaxy stillness:
Pick up your phone slowly.
Not as a reflex. As a ritual gesture.Look at your lock screen image and take one slow breath.
Really see it, just for two seconds.Choose one word you want to project from today.
A few powerful options:Clarity
Courage
Softness
Focus
Service
Play
Devotion
Say (mentally or aloud):
❝“Today I project from [your word].”
As you do this, imagine your word being written like a line of code across the invisible “surface” of your day — like you’re setting the boundary condition for the hologram you’re about to step into.
You are no longer hoping the day is kind.
You are informing the day how you will meet it.
5.3. The Sacred First Tap
Here is where most mornings derail.
The first app you open is the first temple you bow to.
So make this a rule:
My first tap will never be email or social media.
Instead, let your first tap be:
A notes app (to catch a dream or intention)
A meditation / breath app
A journaling app
Even just the camera, to capture the light in your room or the sky outside
By doing this, you are telling your psyche:
“I choose awareness before I choose reaction.”
You don’t have to stay there long.
Even 30–60 seconds of conscious first contact rewires the meaning of your phone.
It’s no longer just a vending machine of dopamine.
It’s a console for consciousness.
6. Step Three: Action — Day as Moving Ritual
Now you leave the bed or the chair.
You’re in motion: showering, dressing, commuting, replying, doing.
This is where most spiritual practices dissolve.
The morning is “holy,” the workday is “mundane.”
Techno-shamanism says: no separation.
We turn ordinary actions into ongoing rituals.
Here are three that are simple and potent.
Ritual 1: Notification as Bell of Awareness
Most people treat notifications as commands:
“Look here now. React now.”
We’re going to flip that.
From now on, every notification is a bell of awareness.
Practice:
Whenever your phone pings or buzzes:
Pause for one full breath before looking.
Even in the middle of work. One breath.Ask yourself:
❝“What reality does this want me to log into?”
Is it:A reality of urgency?
A reality of comparison?
A reality of service?
A reality of distraction?
Then decide consciously:
Join now – if it aligns with your chosen word of the day.
Later – if it matters, but not right now (schedule a time).
Never – if it’s noise (mute, unsubscribe, delete).
You become the admin of your inner server, not a summoned non-player character in someone else’s game.
Ritual 2: Tab Closing as Timeline Closing
Every open tab, every half-started app is a tiny parallel timeline you’re half-living in.
A few times a day (or at least once midday):
Open your browser or app switcher.
Look at each tab/app as if it’s a version of you:
“You where you book that trip.”
“You where you doomscroll.”
“You where you finish that project.”
For each one, ask:
❝“Does this version of me still deserve my energy today?”
Close aggressively. Let some timelines die.
You’ll feel a subtle mix:
A small grief: “I didn’t do all the things.”
A small relief: “I don’t have to hold all these ghosts.”
This is digital mono no aware — the gentle sadness and beauty of things passing.
You’re learning that closure is also sacred.
Ritual 3: Headphones as Portal
Sound is one of your most powerful reality switches.
At least once each day:
Put on headphones with one intentional track or playlist — something that makes you feel both grounded and expansive (ambient, lo-fi, soft techno, classical, whatever works).
Walk or sit with your eyes softly open.
As the music plays, imagine:
Every person you see
Every building
Every object
…as pixels in a shared hologram you co-generate with everyone else.
Then silently bless a few passersby:
“You are the universe, too.
May your projector be kind today.”
Suddenly, the sidewalk is no longer “just a commute.”
It’s a street-level multiverse ceremony.
7. Optional: The Weekly Galactic Body Scan (15–20 Minutes)
Once a week (Sunday morning, a quiet evening, whenever you can), give yourself a deeper reboot: the Galactic Body Scan.
Think of it as a longer ritual that reinforces your daily micro-practices.
Setup
Phone on airplane mode
Lights dim or soft
One track or playlist on loop
Somewhere you can lie down or sit comfortably
Flow
Start at the feet.
Bring your awareness there. Wiggle your toes, feel contact with the floor or bed.
Imagine a tiny galaxy cluster swirling in each foot.Slowly move upward:
Feet → calves → knees → thighs → hips → belly → chest → shoulders → arms → hands → neck → face → crown.
At each region, ask two questions:
“What story am I projecting here?”
(Tension? Bracing? Performance? Ease?)“Is this story still serving me?”
If the answer is “no” or “not really,” choose a fresh word:
For tight jaw → softness
For clenched belly → trust
For hunched shoulders → worthiness
For restless legs → direction
On your inhale, breathe your new word into that area.
On your exhale, imagine the old pattern dissolving into the broader galaxy around you.
You’re not fighting your body.
You’re updating the hologram from the inside.
This is reality sculpting at the most intimate level.
8. Why This Works (On Multiple Layers)
Physically:
Slower breathing regulates your nervous system.
Brief pauses before reacting prevent spirals of stress.
Intention before screen reduces that immediate cortisol spike.
Psychologically:
You shift from “life is happening to me” to “I set the initial conditions.”
Choosing a word of the day gives your mind a simple anchor.
Closing tabs, muting noise, and directing attention build self-trust.
Mythically & Spiritually:
You stop seeing tech as the enemy and start seeing it as ritual material.
You reclaim your role as creator, not just consumer.
You begin to live as if the universe is responsive, playful, and co-creative — because it is.
And gently, without drama, your identity shifts:
From overwhelmed user
To techno-shaman reality architect.
9. Your First Techno-Shaman Morning
Here’s your simple starting prescription for tomorrow:
Before phone:
2 minutes hand-on-chest, hand-on-belly, breathing and zooming out to galaxy.
At the phone:
Look at your lock screen sigil.
Choose your word of the day.
Say: “Today I project from [word].”
Tap a conscious app first (notes, breath, journal, camera).
During the day:
Treat every notification as a bell of awareness.
Close tabs like timelines.
Once, walk with headphones and silently bless strangers.
Nothing here is complicated.
Everything here is a tiny shift in how you relate to what you already do.
You don’t escape the matrix by smashing the screen.
You escape by remembering:
You are the screen, the code, and the light behind it.
I’ll see you tomorrow morning — right between your first breath and your first notification.
That’s where your new timeline begins. 🌌🐼✨
