This article rings true to me.
I find I’ve become addicted to the thrill of email. I check mine way too much.
I got a Blackberry two years ago so I could check my email anywhere.
I have friends who spend hours a day on Facebook, creating fake profiles so they can track the ex-girlfriends of their boyfriend.
What saves me is the Sabbath when I turn off my computer and cell phone.
Alexander Technique also helps me to be more present. And therapy. And good friends. When I’m with them, I don’t yearn so much to check my email.
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist, where I got lots of warnings about the distracting and negative power of television and rock music.
I had a girlfriend who did not have an internet connection at home or on her phone. Nor did she own a television. She was also the most present person I knew.
I do sense that people are more distracted these days compared to ten and twenty years ago.
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.
These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement
