We can start practicing mindfulness by simply noticing the impulse to get on technology whenever it arises and use that awareness to become conscious of our desire to escape the moment. We can then pause in this desire to use. We can learn to tolerate the feelings of craving, staying conscious and still, allowing it without reacting and without giving in to what our mind is telling us to do to satisfy it: Click on that app. It will help me feel better! We can experience the desire to click, check, play, text, wiki, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, you name it, but without actually doing anything
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