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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Not every app is doing the same thing to you. The ones that tend to hurt have comments underneath, a feed chosen for you, and a number attached to how you did.
One young woman described a picture site as the safe one, because there was nowhere for anyone to reply to her. That is a useful way to sort your own…
You are already off your phone somewhere. In lessons, at work, in the pool, driving. That is worth more than it sounds.
It quietly disproves the sentence people say most often about this, that they can never put it down. They already do, most days, for hours at a time.…
For one week note three things each time: how you felt before you opened it, how it felt while you were in it, and how you feel twenty minutes after putting it down.
Most people find the before and the after are not the same, and that the middle was better than either. Usually one or two apps come out fine and one…
Sometimes the scrolling is not really about the scrolling. It is about the coursework, or the conversation, or the thing you have not let yourself think about since March.
You can usually tell by what happens when the phone goes. If the hours quietly move into something else equally absorbing and equally pointless, the…
Nobody is asking you to want less of a lift. The ask is to take some of it from somewhere that does not leave you flat afterwards.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Put that way most people will engage, because it is not a demand to become a calmer sort of person. Cold water, music that actually moves you,…