We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it?

I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing.

Ultimately, it's a culture change.

NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating the relationship between our

tech and our bodies.

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I've been living in the same house for almost 20 years and it was really strange that I

realized that the entire time I've been living here I've been the same person like

I really haven't changed that much and the day- to day hasn't changed, like a snapshot of my brain

activity from 1999 would be the same as it would be in 2019. I don't think that's good because it's mostly I'm kind of worried about dumb things like worried about there's going to be traffic and I'm going to experience that and what if this and what if that.

Your mind is filled with a very mundane worries that are kind of the same

you know 20 years later and that's an odd thing.

Part of my personality is just go right to the worry

and go right to irrational fears of like anything that could possibly happen and the thing about it is like you know I'm 50 years old and all of the things that I've worried about happening never ever happened and it's like I'm still in the mindset that it might, so I have to prepare, but none of my preparation ever served me because nothing that I ever thought was going to happen happened.

And so it was really like, I just don't know why I would keep on

worrying about things because that's never really helped me. Rolling Stone magazine has called her one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.

Margaret Cho is also a Grammy and Emmy Nine. one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.

Margaret Cho is also a Grammy and Emmy-nominated actor, singer,

Burlesque dancer, and LBG TQ rights activist.

Margaret tried one of our practices

to help her feel more optimistic and less anxious about the future.

And she's here to tell us how it went.

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