Page 4 - Attention Hijacked: Using Mindfulness to Reclaim Your Brain from Tech

Introduction

A few years back, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed when I
came across an image of Miranda, my childhood best friend. She was
on a beautiful white-sand tropical beach, tan and radiant, contorted
into an incredible yoga pose. In contrast, I was sitting in my living
room, pasty white and deeply bundled against the frigid Maine temps,
nearly comatose from tech use. And I noticed something. As I stared
at the pic, my throat clenched slightly. My shoulders rose up just a
hair. And my stomach dropped. I had a wisp of a thought: Ugh. I wish
that was me. This was followed by a cascade of reasons that I was better
than her, in a desperate attempt to make myself feel better.

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