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Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?

By Prince EA — 2014

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Why I refuse to let technology control me. You need not drastically minimize your time on social media and commit to spending time completely unplugged. The message is simple, be balanced, be mindful, be present, be here.

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What Loneliness Does to the Human Body

The bodies of lonely people are markedly different from the bodies of non-lonely people.

97 – Learn Ways to Have a Better Conversation with Best-Selling Author Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee is a journalist, speaker, and co-host of Retro Report, a weekly series on PBS. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are how to hold difficult conversations with people, how to become better at making conversation, and how to deliver bad news effectively.

The Verywell Mind Podcast With Amy Morin

FindCenter Quotes Image Only awareness of your shadow qualities can help you to find an appropriate place for your unredeemed darkness and thereby create a more satisfying experience.

Robert A. Johnson

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Seeing Beyond the Screen

Yael Shy invites millennials to bring some mindfulness into their digital lives.

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4 Steps to Achieve a Sense of Belonging

Through the years, I have learned ways to manage these people-pleasing tendencies, and feel more like myself. Here are four tips — if you find yourself feeling lonely — to achieve a greater sense of belonging.

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Uncontained: Digital Disconnection and the Experience of Time

Author Robert Hassan believes we are trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction. In Uncontained, he books a passage on a container ship and spends five weeks travelling from Melbourne to Singapore without digital distractions—disconnected, and essentially alone.

Emotional Detachment: What It Is and How to Overcome It

Emotional detachment is an inability or unwillingness to connect with other people on an emotional level. For some people, being emotionally detached helps protect them from unwanted drama, anxiety, or stress.

Kimberly Holland

An Expert Explains Why You Feel So Lonely All the Time

We're living in what you might call an epidemic of loneliness. Recent research has shown that many of the people we feel close to probably don't reciprocate the feeling.

Annie Vainshtein

How I Stopped Feeling So Lonely and Disconnected

My whole existence could be described in two words: inadequate and lonely. I remember one day walking down the hall in school. I was so tense that I couldn’t seem to walk straight. I felt like I was a prisoner in my own body and mind. There was me, and then the rest of the world.

Charles A. Francis

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Combating an Epidemic of Loneliness

Humans can survive three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food and — according to survival lore — three months without companionship. Whether true or not, what’s clear is that people need people.

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