Mindful use of technology has great power and potential to build purpose, connection, and reduce stress.
Have you ever been in someone’s presence and felt dismissed because they’re on their phone the whole time?
How has that felt? Did it feel like an intimate connection? Do you value quality time? In what ways do you feel most respected and important?
Learning how to break up with you phone, or at least get some space, can be a worthwhile endeavor.
Your phone isn’t inherently bad but if you don’t learn how to get some distance from it, you’re going to experience more stress, overwhelm, and less meaningful interactions.
Mindful use of technology can be a helpful strategy for finding harmony in life. Finding balance between what you most value and how to keep up in today’s fast-pace Western world will reduce stress and increase joy.
Learn the vital 2 elements of enhancing mindful use of technology that you can start using TODAY!
Mindfulness is a state of being aware. The more aware we are of ourselves the more attuned we become to what we need. Mindfulness also helps us get clear on what we do that gets in the way of that. A mindful approach to technology brings us closer to intention-setting, living a values-based life, and enriching everything we experience.
Showing up from a present, deliberate, and authentic place feels good to us and those we encounter.
This cultivation of awareness and intention doesn’t come without its challenges. In modern-day living, barriers abound. Stress, pressures, and daily demands wreak havoc on our systems and we feel endlessly rushed with ruthless to-do lists, relentless tasks, and an incessant wish for more hours in the day.
It’s actually because it’s hard that it’s worth doing.
Digitally detoxing is a vital aspect of our health. Our phones have the powerful potential to take us away from our peace.
We would all benefit from both a bit of space, a daily break-up from our phones, as well as a shift in how we relate to and use them in the first place.
The first vital element of enhancing mindful use of technology:
1. Identify your values: We have to first get clear on what technology means to you and how it’s either contributing to an enhanced state of health or diminishing energy.
How does your phone make you feel? Why is mindful use of technology important to you to even considering doing?
2. Intention setting with clear commitment to action: Once you’re clear on what your values are and you’ve cultivated an awareness of how your phone and technology either brings you closer to or further away from those values, you can now shift to intention-setting.
What’s your intention when it comes to using your phone? Do you want to eliminate technology all together in the evening prior to bed to connect you to your value of getting good sleep? Set the intention and commit to the action.
Some tips to help consider how to use technology mindfully:
Find inspiration on social media, connect with like-minded others. If it’s enhancing your connection to yourself and your life, keep it.
If it feels like a barrier, let it go if you can, even if only for a few pockets of time each day (while eating, playing with your kid, talking to a colleague).
Put your phone down: You don’t need it on your person at every single waking moment. Leave it in another room. Put it in your purse during dinner. Get some space from it.
No phone zones: Think about places and spaces where no technology can be allowed because it disrupts a mindful presence. Make it a family challenge and see how it goes. Experiment. 
Ultimately, the idea is to enrich your connection with others, show you care by offering actual people in real life your loving awareness, connecting to your own needs to reduce stress by making intentions related to technology and following through with action. You can do this!
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