While turning off our phone is one path to breaking the stress of chronic availability, we can also find relief through a simple dip into our breath or into any of the body’s senses. When we take a single conscious breath, or pause to feel the sensations in our body or to listen to the sounds coming into our ears, we turn the tables on perpetual availability and become available to ourselves in the deepest way. Diving into our own present-moment awareness, through the breath, through the senses, is the most simple and direct medicine for the condition of constant availability.
