What effect does social media, mobile gaming and watching movies have on my meditation practice? I use FB and Instagram quite a lot. I also play a mobile game called Genshin Impact which is an RPG-game where one can level up ones heroes and gain new abilities and weapons to defeat monsters and other creatures. It's a huge open-world game with tons of stuff to do.
The movies I watch are usually horror movies such as Hereditary, Midsommar, The Conjuring, Sinister or science fiction movies such as Arrival, Interstellar, Moon etc.
Will I be better served without these activities?
What effect will the absence of those activities have on my meditation practice?
If you are regularly practising meditation, you should know for yourself how various activities affect your meditation.
For example, if desires &amp; thoughts about various activities pop into your mind regularly when meditating then obviously these activities are hindering the development of meditative concentration.
In summary, if the quality of your social media, mobile gaming and watching movies is related to lust, violence &amp; restlessness then they will inevitably hinder concentration meditation.
But if social media &amp; movies are of a more wholesome quality then they will not hinder meditation.
Note: I am too old to know what mobile gaming is.