Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Five Star App Meditation Studio and Muse, the personal

meditation assistant that helps you learn to meditate.

I'm Patricia Carpice, co-founder of meditation studio and your host on Untangle.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts, and thought leaders who share

their stories on how meditation and mindfulness practices have the power to change our

lives.

To get started meditating on your own, you can download the Meditation Studio app in the

App Store, where you'll get over 500

original and exclusive meditations by leading experts on everything from sleep, stress,

and anxiety to happiness, leadership, relationships, and much, much more. It's like having

a little inspirational coach in your pocket when you're facing any challenge.

Any comments? Reach out to us at Untangle at Meditation Studio app.com. Today's guest is Amy Blankson.

Amy's the co-founder of the global positive psychology consulting firm, Good Think, and the author of the book, The Future of Happiness,

Five Modern Strategies for Balancing Productivity and Well-Being in the Digital Era.

Her strategies focus on how we stay grounded so that we can channel our energy with intention,

how to know ourselves better, which includes knowing our values

and how we can remember these with every choice that we make, and training our brains to

keep a more optimistic mindset and how we can actually create a habitat for happiness.

Amy shares so many great insights in this interview

on all the many positive ways we can use technology to actually improve our levels of happiness.

But there are many, many challenges too. Like the one statistic she shared, that the average

millennial uses their phone, for example, an average of nine hours a day.

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