if you're into meditation, you'll probably enjoy this piece a lot.
if you're not into it, or you plan on responding below in a way that suggests you didn't read the article -- you'll appear somewhat as proof of what the article contends. but even if you don't meditate or even spend time on social media, you'll completely understand the weird physical feeling you get from a disturbing thought (a remembrance of a past embarrassment, for example), and the similar feeling you get when you are hit with a tweet (or whatever) that irks you.
the analogy fits: the feelings arising from thinking a troubling thought are almost no different than the feelings arising from reading an upsetting tweet.
the conclusion is to operate social media the same way you monitor your own thoughts - which is to examine what the thought might actually be, and then disarm and discard it. which is what one does often in meditation.
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@bek1 What is your "go-to" music for a romantic encounter?
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@Steve-allen. What movie would you have been a great actor in ?
Congratulations to @APalm and @derrickhhurd. Your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists. Well, that was fun. We got a chorus.
@apalm As a kid, what luxury item did you dream about buying some day?
@derrickhhurd What is the last thing you would be willing to give up if you had to?
Oh here’s some news I’d like to share
While I was gone I kicked a 38 year nicotine habit! It’s been 15 months and I don’t even think about it. At all.
See I hated the smell of cigarettes and the kind of smoker I was, was I’d take out a cigarette. take two hits and I put it out so it wasn’t hard at all. I mean, I’m surprised how easy it was for me being a smoker for that long.
I’ll tell you what though, it took one year to cough up all the crap out of my lungs