THE EXPERIMENT BEGINS
Dear reader,
About a month ago, I ordered a dumbphone. If you haven’t heard of the dumb phone movement, it’s exactly what it sounds like: droves of people getting rid of their smartphones in exchange for something simpler, like a flip phone.
When I had a health scare two months ago, I knew that it would change how I showed up for myself. What I didn’t expect to happen was a major overhaul of my across-the-board health. I started combing through every area of my life where I was not taking care of myself, my body, my brain, or my aliveness.
There were two main areas I ran into: movement and attention.
I have known for a while that I wanted to incorporate more movement into my daily life, and have been consciously finding safety in my body and working toward this since January (it is my year of Move, after all).
But—attention. Ah. This one is sneakier. For someone who writes a Substack literally called Sacred Attention, perhaps I have not actually given much attention to the ways I give it away so carelessly.
So I asked myself: what in my life is taking away my sweet, precious, sacred time, attention, and energy? What is keeping me out of living in the present moment? What is frying my energy, my brain space, and my attention span? Is there anything making my life feel more frenetic?
Overwhelmingly, the answer was clear: my damn iPhone.