You Should Start Praying Before Using Your Phone

We are not yet under that much authoritarian, techno-fascist control that we cannot create multiple small pauses throughout the day to help us engage in whatever is in front of us with more intention and attention.

That’s where the idea about praying or meditating before picking up the phone comes in. It’s not about the phone. I just used it as an example that everyone can relate to. Being on the phone is, after all, the most universal daily “activity” for modern humans and a source of most of our disengaged, passively spent time. Hence, bringing more awareness to that moment might be the highest lever to pull for a more engaging, higher-quality experience of life.

If you were to pause and reconnect with yourself (or with something higher outside of yourself) before most of your daily activities, wouldn’t your life feel significantly more grounded, more engaging, more real?

As Søren Kierkegaard said,

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”