Tag: technology
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Is Your Time Well Spent?
I know I’ve talked about this so many times before, but let me say it again for those of you that are new to the blog or new to mindfulness: technology is taking over our minds. Whether we realize it or not it’s happening. And a movement that goes by the name of Time Well…
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Podcast Episode #4: Interview with Dr. Susan Maushart, Author of The Winter of Our Disconnect
Listen to our interview with Dr. Susan Maushart, author of The Winter of Our Disconnect, in the latest episode of the Technology for Mindfulness Podcast.
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Podcast Episode #03: Interview with Dr. Judson Brewer, Author of The Craving Mind
Listen to our interview with Dr. Judson Brewer, author of The Craving Mind, in the latest episode of the Technology for Mindfulness Podcast.
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Hack Your Mind Event: Technology and the Assault on Solitude
Join author Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self on April 19th to learn more about the effect of technology on solitude.…
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Wearable Technology to Help You Relax and Focus
While technology does a lot to distract us from the present and bring us stress, it can also do a lot to help us relax and be more present. As much as I like to encourage people to set their devices down and be present, we all use technology—it’s not going anywhere! So why not…
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Addicted to Your Phone? Ask Yourself These 5 Questions When You Reach For Your Smartphone
You’re about to start cooking dinner when you have a question about the recipe… what can you substitute for tarragon? So you pull out your phone to type your question into Google. But what happens first? You see a new text message, notifications from 3 different apps… By the time you’ve finished checking everything out…
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Keep Calm and Download this App
Move over Headspace, there’s a new player in the mindfulness app game and it goes by the name of Calm—and they’re aiming to become more than just an app. Calm is a 14-person mindfulness startup. The founders, Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew, began the company with hopes of commercializing the countless benefits of meditation.…
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Study: Should Mindfulness Meditation be Prescribed for Anxiety?
Mindfulness is something which the medical world has yet to fully accept as a means for treating patients. Although mindful meditation has a variety of benefits, and has been around for thousands of years, it’s a relatively new concept to many doctors. One of the many things that meditation has been shown to aid in…
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Technology is Taking Over Minds Whether We Notice or Not
Technology is such an integral part of our lives, and as technology evolves and becomes more useful, it also becomes more manipulative and addictive. And the things is, the creators of these technologies know that—they design their websites or apps to work in this way. Sometimes they do it unknowingly, but more often than not…
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Virtual Reality Meditation: A New Way to Relax
Virtual reality… another device to help us mindlessly waste time, play more games and watching more videos, right? While there are some experimental educational uses for VR such as virtual tours and potential medical uses, for the most part the general public (or the small portion of them that actually own a VR device) is…
