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How to break compulsive email checking

I refresh my email every three minutes even when I know nothing important is coming and my thumb moves to the app before I realize what I am doing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system seeks stimulation to avoid confronting the present moment's emptiness.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist impermanence and time?”

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