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Are health trackers imparting a permanent psycho-awareness of our bodies?
In a new immersive experience, anyone can cut ties with reality for a few minutes and find themselves at a Northern California retreat center.
A 24/7 business cycle coupled with the smartphone invasion can create a seemingly insurmountable workload making it increasingly impossible to achieve the ideal work-life balance.
Can software development benefit from mindfulness?
Unplug from technology. This is a difficult one as we all love our technology! But you can become easily overwhelmed and overstimulated with communication and information. This results in wasted time and poor decisions. By taking brief breaks, you’ll find that you return feeling calmer and clearer, with more energy and creativity. Make a pact with yourself to initiate break times throughout the day away from all technology. Just making this adjustment will go a long way in lowering your stress levels!
Tech is an asset that doesn't have to shackle us to a screen 24/7, Dan Machen said at Brand Exchange this morning.
Whether you are a giant global platform or a hip new startup, the most important first step in your business plan should be to care about mental wellbeing
The tech space, it turns out, has an especially acute need for the practice because, well, it isn't exactly synonymous with Zen.
Take, for example, the use of smartphones and wearables to deliver mindfulness therapies. There’s something ironic about your phone beeping to tell you to relax and then incessantly buzzing until you tell it you took a deep breath. Perhaps it is not surprising that only a small percentage of mindfulness apps, 4 percent to be exact, provide actual mindfulness education and training.
This status of the artwork as an object of contemplation is actually relatively new. The classical contemplative attitude was directed towards immortal, eternal objects like the laws of logic (Plato, Aristotle) or God (medieval theology). The changing material world in which everything is temporary, finite, and mortal was understood not as a place of vita contemplativa but of vita activa. Accordingly, the contemplation of artworks is not ontologically legitimized in the same way that the contemplation of the truths of reason and of God are. Rather, this contemplation is made possible by the technology of storage and preservation. In this sense the art museum is just another instance of technology that, according to Heidegger, endangers man by turning him into an object.
Technology it is often seen as a factor that drives people’s stress up. One of the main reasons is that we do use technology a lot to manage ou
MeetMindful, a relationship platform that connects a large, growing number of people pursuing a healthy, mindful lifestyle, announced it has raised $1.8 million in a seed round from top investors in mindfulness, dating, and SaaS technology.
Jeff is the founder of Contemplative Life — a new, interfaith/interspiritual website designed to bring together contemplative practices — and practitioners — from around the world. It’s intended to help anyone interested in contemplative practice to find their “tribe” — teachers, mentors, guides, fellow practitioners, as well as a place where people interested in the contemplative life can learn about different approaches to contemplation from different faiths or traditions.
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Imagine you saw an ad for "one weird email trick" that could help you feel less stressed and get more done, while still responding to messages just as quickly. You'd probably think it was a scam.
But new research shows there is in fact one weird email trick that has all these benefits, and the idea is startlingly simple. Just turn off email notifications, check email three or four times a day, and don't look at your Inbox any other time. Participants in a study who followed this advice saw increases in heart rate variability, which indicates lower stress levels. Their average response times were right in line with people who check email all the time. And best of all, participants in studies that limited email checking have reported feeling like they were more productive, with much more time to focus on important, valuable work.
Mind Yeti: Mindfulness for kids aged 5+. Help kids calm down, focus, and sleep.
technology and mindfulness actually aren’t so incompatible. Even more, we can use technology to help us practice mindfulness.
The inaugural exhibit at ARTECHOUSE, a new gallery in Washington, DC focused exclusively on digital art, is both dramatic and quietly poetic.
Research shows this psychological technique can help people become more aware and support global change.
Tech is making us anxious, and sometimes more tech isn't the best solution.
Giving test subjects direct instruction made them more likely to fall for phishing attacks and less likely to explore the advanced features of software. Mindfulness training had the opposite effect.
The secret to a mindful home, experts warn, is that “we need to know how to and when to unplug so that we are not constantly being bombarded by technology”.
“Be present. It is the only thing that matters.”
- Ways of the Peaceful Warrior
I NEARLY had a vehicular accident quite recently. Operative word: Nearly.
I was minding my business at a traffic stop when the vehicle before me decided
Perhaps surprisingly, technology can support mindfulness in the workplace.
Digital mindfulness is a name given to describe the harmonious deployment and interaction with digital and digitised environments. In this age where billions of hours are spent by people in digitised environments, the choices we make in the ways such digital artefacts are deployed matter to the health, wellbeing, and continued development of the person and the organisation more generally.
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