Grounding the Monkey Mindfulness in a Technology Addicted World

Laptops, cell phones, earbuds, cameras, tablets, TVs—they're all around us, 24/7, so what's your plan for coping in the digital age? Learn how to stay grounded, mindful, and focused in a technology-saturated world with this practical, eye-opening guide. We are living in a virtual world made of social networks, 24-hour information feeds, and constant access to being “connected”—a simulated version of the world we actually inhabit. And we're addicted to that illusionary life to the detriment of ourselves, our friends, our families, and even, in a broader sense, our culture. In Grounding the Monkey, psychotherapist, author, and interfaith minister Nancy Colier invites us to take action to consciously center ourselves in the here and now and invest more in the moment in front of us. Through her expert guidance we learn how to share more personal depth with others (as well as ourselves)—more truth than what is given in a 140-character tweet—and shows how to create a healthy relationship between technology and our essential humanness. Colier walks us through examples on when to employ technological strategies where they are successful, and human strategies where they are needed. “Now Toolboxes” provides simple mindfulness techniques you can use in your daily life to create and maintain healthy relationships with technology. Deeply informative and beneficial to every generation, Grounding the Monkey helps us understand how, in this hyper-speed, illusory, technologically connected but humanely disconnected world, we can establish peace, connection, and meaning—within our relationships and within ourselves.