Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

It created a stopgap measure for him because it helped him create a bookend between one job and the other.

They are scrolling through the headlines or social media or their email.

Think about what that is doing to your brain and your body.

Think about what that's doing to your stress.

Our brain circuitry starts to pop from that extended time spent online, and it makes it increasingly difficult to live offline.

So when you open your eye, give your body and brain the ability to open the other eye and just rest in the moment for 30 seconds, for one minute.

It doesn't have to be long, but just acclimate to the morning, the light, and then you can check your phone.

But giving yourself that little moment of pause, of grounding at the start of your day can be a game changer.

The mind-body connection, it might be a new phrase to you, but you have been operating with the mind-body connection in the background your whole life.

Your mind and your body are in constant communication and inextricably linked.

What's good for your body is good for your brain and vice versa.

When I had a busy clinical practice and I was a medical resident in training and I would see 30 patients a day.

And so my task was as I would knock on the patient door before entering the next room and I would stop, breathe.

breathe and center myself and just be.

It's three seconds and I would say this to myself under my breath, stop, breathe and be.

Not only is movement good for the brain and the body, but in fact, not enough movement or rather no movement being sedentary is in fact bad for the brain and body.

The Slack channel, the emails, everything going at once.

Multitasking.

It is something that all of us do because it's part of modern working life and we are required to multitask.

We know that multitasking is a scientific misnomer.