The Power of Off · The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World by Colier, Nancy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Dedication Contents Introduction: Finding Ground in a Virtual World Part 1: Our Relationship with Technology

1. The Prison of Availability 2. Slaves to Technology 3. Can’t Stop Checking 4. Technoholics: A Generation of Addicts 5. When Escaping the Moment Is the New Moment 6. Information for Its Own Sake 7. An Epidemic of Boredom 8. When Technology Bosses Us Around 9. Our Phones Are Getting Smarter, but Are We?

Part 2: Our Relationship with Others

10. Your Friend or Your Phone? 11. Asking for the Attention We Still Need 12. Last-Minute-itis 13. Swimming in the Shallows 14. A Remedy for Disconnection 15. Allow Me to Help 16. Welcome to the Family, Smartphone 17. Engineering Life One Autocorrected Letter at a Time 18. Is Technology Our New Savior? 19. The Umbilical Cord of Technology 20. My Smartphone and Me 21. Reawakening to the World We Share 22. All Alone in Virtual Community

Part 3: Our Relationship with Ourselves

23. Is Your Smartphone Stealing Your Life? 24. I Tweet, Therefore I Am 25. Branding the Self 26. Can You See Me Now? 27. When Becoming Popular Is Our Purpose 28. Heads Floating in Cyberspace 29. Uncovering Our Limitless Self

Part 4: Creating Space—Inside and Out

30. Finding Silence inside the Noise 31. Making Time for Downtime 32. Creating Meaning amid the Meaninglessness 33. Discovering Being in a Doing World 34. Getting the Importance of Not Getting

Part 5: How to Liberate Ourselves from a Teched-Out Mind

35. Overthrowing the Dictatorship of the Mind 36. How to Stop Narrating and Start Being Life 37. Getting Off the Thought Treadmill 38. Our Thoughts Are Not Real

Part 6: Mindfulness Practice for the Digital Age

Take a Breath 39. The Practice of Mindfulness 40. Stocking Your Mindfulness Toolbox 41. Mindfulness for the Uncooperative Mind 42. Being in the Moment When We Don’t Like the Moment 43. Going All the Way 44. Permission to Be Nobody

Epilogue: Freedom In, Not From Acknowledgments Appendix A: 30-Day Tech Detox Notes About the Author About Sounds True Copyright Praise for The Power of Off