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Our lives are flooded with tasks that feel not only complicated for no good reason but also draining and meaningless.
wonder if the constant use of technology is disrupting or resetting their brains’ pleasure baselines to an elevated level.
According to child-development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige, author of Taking Back Childhood, “Kids need firsthand engagement—they need to manipulate objects physically, engage all their senses, and move and interact with the three-dimensional world. This is what maximizes their learning and brain development. A lot of the time children spend with screens takes time away from the activities we know they need for optimal growth.”
We are conditioned to believe that easier means better, that the less we have to do, the happier we will be.
The next time something happens in your life, notice what it feels like to hold it alone for a little while—that is, to not tell anyone about it and keep it just for yourself. Focus on simply experiencing it, sensing any feelings, thoughts, or body sensations that the event creates. As you do this, try to refrain from preparing the story of what happened in your mind, packaging the tale that you will soon send out to the world.
