The Physical Boundary

You are probably reading this with a phone or some electronic device that has more access to your data than your family, pets, or medical provider. Today, this new normal is somehow considered OK. It was not always this way.

This is not a lecture about quitting devices (though perhaps it should be). Instead, it is a short experiment in attention, because your attention is your most valuable resource and you are wasting it.

Read these pages, then put the device aside. Twenty minutes is enough for the first boundary. If the hand goes toward the phone, notice the reach. Bring the hand back. Do it as many times as it happens and count how often you felt the urge to reach. That is the whole drill.