Reclaim Your Mind: 7 Mindful Strategies For A Healthier Phone Habit, with Jay Vidyarthi

We talk with mindfulness teacher and technologist Jay Vidyarthi about rebuilding a healthier relationship with attention in a world engineered for distraction and speed.

Jay's Book: Reclaim Your Mind

We move from tech burnout and Zoom fatigue to practical strategies that replace guilt with choice, including a guided practice that makes the “pull” of the phone impossible to unsee. 

• noticing false urgency and how language triggers the nervous system 
• working with tech burnout through rest, recovery time, and small in-call adjustments 
• understanding your attachment style with technology as a non-shaming map for change 
• adding curiosity and structure when apps create avoidance or stress 
• setting boundaries that become positive rituals rather than deprivation 
• spotting design patterns like red badges, autoplay, and countdown timers 
• “voting” with attention by supporting tools and creators that promote clarity and wellbeing 
• practising “drop the rope” with a slow-motion phone audit to build urge immunity 

Check out Jay’s book, Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully. 

You can check out his website at jayvidarthy.com. 

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Mindfulness Exercises with Sean Fargo is a practical, grounded mindfulness podcast for people who want meditation to actually help in real life.

Hosted by Sean Fargo — a former Buddhist monk, mindfulness teacher, and founder of MindfulnessExercises.com — the show explores how mindfulness can support mental health, emotional regulation, trauma sensitivity, chronic pain, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.

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