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Body Hacking is one of the newest crazes sweeping through modern offices, schools, and prisons alike. But can these new advancements lead to a misunderstanding of mindfulness? 
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When you’re not on the go the Versa will also track sleep, including time in light, deep and REM stages, while guided breathing sessions will help users take a moment for mindfulness and reduce stress levels.
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The Americans who use their phones the most are the ones with the least access to trendy tech detoxes.
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"CBS This Morning" is taking a look at our ability to focus and how we can recapture our attention from the devices that distract us
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"If you meditate, you're less of an asshole. But it's hard to prove that with science."
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You take your phone out of your pocket, probably not thinking about even doing so, look at it and immediately feel miserable – but there you'll stay, scrolling and scrolling, more and more miserable. Just a few minutes later you'll probably put it away and then do it all over again. And you'll repeat that cycle, every few minutes, over and over until you go to sleep – a sleep probably disturbed by the fact that you feel compelled to look at your phone when you wake up from it.
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The b device plans to ship with LED lights, Bluetooth connectivity, a pressure sensor and other hardware components that allow users to visualize their breathing data and practice mindful breathing routines whenever and wherever they'd like.
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As part of efforts to add to its mental-health training for staff and faculty, the University of British Columbia is in the process of rolling out a mindfulness program from technology giant Google Inc.
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The Center for Humane Technology, launched this week, counts people once associated with Google and Facebook among its cofounders. (They’ve emerged as critics of what the companies are doing.) The group is getting its footing by launching an awareness campaign with Common Sense Media.
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people are going to put things on their head, AR and VR headsets, head-mounted displays. That gives us an opportunity to put a lot of sensors on the cranium that we wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to do.
Bart Everson's insight:
From the same people who brought you the meditation headband...
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BrainTap is the first of the next generation of mindfulness apps, taking the user through meditative brain-wave states without the user having to actively participate.
Bart Everson's insight:
When I first read this press release, I was convinced that it was some sort of clever prank or incisive social satire. But upon perusing the actual website, I'm not so sure. Heaven help us.
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Just as the processed food glory days of the 1970s and 80s bequeathed us Whole Foods and $4 organic mangoes, today’s digital habits are leading to a push for a healthier alternatives.
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The Esalen Institute, a storied hippie hotel in Big Sur, Calif., has reopened with a mission to help technologists who discover that “inside they’re hurting.”
Bart Everson's insight:
Uh-oh. Esalen is back, and this time it's focusing on technopathology.
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From
afro
Technology has been one of my BFFs ever since I discovered its power when I logged in to the LexisNexis research service as a first-year law student at Howard University School of Law in 1986. Fast forward three decades later, my relationship with technology has blossomed into a full-blown love affair in my digital communications
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Earlier this month, two former Google staffers quietly launched a new app that’s designed to help users overcome technology’s uncanny valley and develop a more healthy relationship with…
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I stopped using technology on the weekends—here's what happened when I did.
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lcnme
When mindfully engaged with technology like computers and smartphones, people have incredible access to information and one another. However, when not approached with discipline...
Bart Everson's insight:
It would be great to see more programs like this!
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Free to download, the app rewards users for every 20 minutes they don’t check their phone while on campus. Points can then be traded for rewards such as cinema tickets, free food, drinks or Amazon gift cards.
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A new campaign on campus was trying to get St. Thomas students to unplug from technology for nine hours straight in exchange for a free small drink from the Loft
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A new semester is in full swing and so is the initiative to promote mental health and wellness around campus.
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A major emphasis of the program is identifying and advancing novel techniques and technologies that can improve cognitive, emotional and physical performance to provide new capabilities for maximizing soldier readiness and response.
Bart Everson's insight:
The US Army is investigating the use of technology to enhance soldier readiness through Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. The device in question delivers neurostimulation through the tongue. Not making this up.
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Bart Everson's insight:
This is just a press release but it's indicative of how VR "mindfulness" is being sold in the corporate milieu.
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“Now more than ever, it’s important to prioritize our emotional well-being,” said Shine’s founders Naomi Hirabayashi and Marah Lidey.
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The US President has been good for Michael Acton Smith’s business. When Trump was elected, downloads of the entrepreneur’s app Calm soared. It promises to “make you sleep better and feel happier”.
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