Description
Book Synopsis The media that capture our attention, mold our thoughts, and shape our expressions are the invisible information environments that surround us. The Digital Age has forced humanity to engage in daily prolonged immersion within specific media of thought that, over time, become toxic media environments and can result in a state of mental imbalance. As a process for achieving stability, practicing media mindfulness is not about disengaging, but rather having a deeper awareness of the media environments that we are immersed in--how they engage our attention, how they affect our thoughts and behaviors and, most importantly, how we can manage them to avoid their harmful effects. Simply changing one''s media environment results in a new way of attending to information and even a shift in one''s behavior and thought patterns.
This book explains why our media environments are often toxic, the effects they can have on our mental health, and steps we can take in order to practice mi
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Media Mindfulness, Media Balancing
- Chapter One. Two Ways of Attending, Eight Ways of Knowing
- Chapter Two. The Principles of Media Engagement
- Chapter Three. Linguistic Media: Anxious Depression and the Primary Environment
- Chapter Four. Logical-Mathematical Media: The Twin Demons of Time and Money
- Chapter Five. Nature: The "Ground of Being"
- Chapter Six. Music Therapy for Your Self
- Chapter Seven. The Body: Medium of the Self
- Chapter Eight. Visual-Spatial Media: Addiction and Counterbalance
- Chapter Nine. Interpersonal Media: The Paradoxes, Illusions, and Delusions of Social Media
- Chapter Ten. Intrapersonal Media: The Spiritual Dream in the Temple of Sleep
- Conclusion: The Message/Medium Mind Flip
- Epilogue: Stop Fighting Your Self
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
