Often we think that technology and mindfulness are opposites. We think they’re at odds. When we think about practicing mindfulness or meditation, we think about putting away our phones. We think about turning off the TV. We think about shutting down all our devices. We think about digital detoxes.
But technology and mindfulness actually aren’t so incompatible. Even more, we can use technology to help us practice mindfulness.
In fact, we can think of mindfulness as technology. According to Rohan Gunatillake in his powerful, practical book Modern Mindfulness: How to Be More Relaxed, Focused, and Kind While Living in a Fast, Digital, Always-On World, “If technology is a set of tools and methods employed to solve certain problems or achieve certain objectives, then meditation is absolutely that.”
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