{"id":1748,"date":"2020-05-27T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:33:14","slug":"mindfulness-theres-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/27\/mindfulness-theres-an-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness \u2013 There\u2019s an app for that"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original post\u00a0by Unknown author on January 19, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mindfulnesseverywhere.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/buddhify-city.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a recent episode of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/spark\/340-mindfulness-frugality-and-the-future-1.3907000\/video-mobile-mindfulness-can-bring-calm-to-your-hectic-life-1.3907006\">Spark<\/a>&nbsp;(a technology radio show on the CBC) they began discussing using apps to improve mindfulness. Spark interviewed the founder of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindfulnesseverywhere.io\/\">Mindfulness Everywhere<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;who have created several mindfulness apps including a guided meditation, which actually integrate your mobile device into your meditation for example; look at your phone, notice the colours on the screen, the weight in your hand etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the exact opposite concept from the Slow Tech movement that emphasized the need to turn-off, or slow down a users dependency on tech. Instead, apps created by Mindfulness Everywhere ask the user to become more immersed in their technology as a way to relieve stress and anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original post\u00a0by Unknown author on January 19, 2017 On a recent episode of&nbsp;Spark&nbsp;(a technology radio show on the CBC) they began discussing using apps to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/27\/mindfulness-theres-an-app-for-that\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mindfulness \u2013 There\u2019s an app for that<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71813,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileculture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}