Wellness Series: How to Put Down Your Phone - Ancient Tips for Managing a Busy Mind and a Busy World

Program Type:

Health & Wellness

Age Group:

Adults, Older Adults
This event is part of a series. Visit the first event in the series to register.
Registration for this event will close on January 22, 2025 @ 2:30pm.
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Event Details

Wellness Series: How to Put Down Your Phone - Ancient tips for managing a busy mind and a busy world

Like me . . . do you get completely distracted by your busy mind, the phone, news, and endless doom scrolling?

This is a four-week series where we'll practice sitting and walking meditation and we'll experiment with putting down our phones, dive into the art of doing nothing, and identify the stories behind procrastination. We'll also explore how the attention economy is specifically designed to heighten our distraction.

Elissa Kane is a distracted meditator on sabbatical who's been reading a lot lately including Jenny Odell's book "How to do Nothing - Resisting the Attention Economy" and Pema Chodron's "When Things Fall Apart."

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Kane & Lekakis, consultants working with individuals and groups to build healthy organizations and manage change. 518-248-6291.

Shambhala Meditation Center of Albany, Public Sitting every Wednesday 5:30-7pm. Learn to Meditate first Wednesday of the month. Heart of Recovery every Monday 7pm. Classes & weekend workshops. www.albany.shambhala.org where Peace begins with your own mind.

The Wellness series at the Pine Hills branch will offer library patrons the chance to try out different health and wellness modalities - meditation, tai chi, yoga, etc. - aimed at enhancing overall well-being. The program series will also focus on learning about any of the core dimensions of wellness: physical, social, creative, coping and essential.