There has been a great deal of interest/concern/uncertainty about the digital world which is now almost everybody's domain. There is a campaign https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/digitaldetox to help people who might be addicted to the digital world to take a week off and of course that isn't a bad idea, taking a week off anything which has become compelling is helpful. There is evidence that taking a week off from your children and letting Granny look after them is beneficial to parents!
Meditation gives you a break and also allows you to see the compelling nature of the ideas which come roaring into life as you aim for peace and quiet. You begin to see that you are free however much they roar at you for attention, you just keep going back to base, to your mantra, to your prayer word, again and again and again. Then you come out and the toxic nature of the things which grip are in perspective. Like your children after a week away, they are adorable and manageable again, your ideas and your digital world are there to be useful, to be creative and not to rule you.
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