Dr. Ashley Hass

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Having that awareness can help lead to behavior change, but it's about setting these boundaries.

So instead of taking a break and laying down on your couch scrolling or playing Candy Crush or whatever you do, go outside to the mailbox and take a walk.

It doesn't need to be like a 20 minute HIIT workout, but things that are like what we call

stress resilient deposits, talking to a friend on the phone.

Maybe don't FaceTime, give your eyes a break, but maybe you do FaceTime, that's cool too.

Listen to music, meditate.

I'm horrible at meditation, but I'm so good at looking at candles.

Excellent.

Absolutely, yeah.

And like, I use an app called, not affiliated with these people, but I love Screen Zen.

Like I have to block myself out.

You're talking about the news articles.

That's the same form of like social media, right?

It's those vampire sucking loops that are happening.

And the click bait, right?

Like no shame, no judgment.

I do the same thing.

And I'm somebody who does this and I had my phone on my,

bed two nights ago and I doom scrolled way until way way too late but like keeping it out of the bedroom is one of the best things you can do both at the beginning and the end of the day is when your brain is kind of like figuring out what's going on and doing all the coding all of that so definitely very helpful and then I would also argue to have like a silence and stillness break again in the middle of the day put it in your drawer sometimes I put in my underwear drawer I'm like