Hi, it's Zeef here. Welcome to Radiohead Space and to Tuesday.

I wanted to spend some time today talking about how mindfulness can support our use of

technology. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone when I say that my use of technology has really

increased over the past couple of years as we've spent so much more time in front of our screens.

And I don't think I realized how much it impacted me until I couldn't find my phone the other day

and it really made me panic. It wasn't just the inconvenience factor of potentially losing my phone.

I realized I've been developing a pretty unhealthy relationship with it. Living away from my family,

I think also plays a role. I feel like if I don't have my phone, I might miss something from them

or not be available if there is news. This really stems from when my dad passed away very suddenly.

So whilst there are some valid reasons for feeling like I need my phone close,

I still needed to address my reaction to it because it wasn't that healthy.

With so much technology around us, it's really easy to forget that ultimately we get to define

our relationship with it. And my intention in talking about this topic today is not to scare us

into getting rid of our phones and computers. That would not be helpful at all. But instead to

look at ways to use it more mindfully. And one of those is recognising when it's not making us

feel good and if it's impacting our mental health. So I don't think I'm alone in having

developed some bad habits. And one of those habits is to react to air-free little thing, every sound,

every vibration from my phone or computer. We're so primed with the ping of a text message or an alert

and it can leave us in a constant state of distraction as we switch between so many things.

And this can have a big impact cognitively. It can tire us and wear us down. So something I'm

trying out right now is turning off all notifications. Now this might seem like a drastic thing to do,

but it's amazing the difference it makes. I can still see if someone has messaged or called,

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