tech

Mindfulness teachers in schools are using self-compassion and awareness practices to help students use tech more intentionally. Read more

Mindfulness is available to us in every moment and the most important thing to do is start. These three meditation devices claim they can help. Read more

Your phone was built to distract you. Here are a few simple things you can do from your home screen to create a more mindful experience. Read more

Filter bubbles and fake news exist because all of us tend to ignore facts and stick to our own social enclaves online. To heal the division in America, we must fix one of our most important methods of gathering and sharing information: the internet. Read more

When your favorite mindfulness app says it’s based in science, check twice. Few actually are. Two mindfulness experts and app developers talked to Mindful about how most apps rely on the science of mindfulness in general to back up their claims, and how that could lead to problems—and fines—in the future, like it did for the brain-training company Lumosity. Read more

Text messaging can breed disastrous misunderstandings between people. Here’s how to stop that from happening. Read more

This mindfulness practice can help transform your relationship to your phone—the very thing that can sometimes pull us toward mindlessness.  Read more

When it comes to our phones, it's not just fear of missing out (FOMO) that keeps us attached and scrolling with abandon. It's fear of keeping up (FOKU).  Read more

MIT professor and bestselling author Sherry Turkle on how our tech habits are breaking down our relationships. Read more