William Indick

Media Mindfulness

Building a Balanced Diet for the Brain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The media that capture our attention, mold our thoughts, and shape our expressions are the invisible information environments that surround us. The "Digital Age" has forced humanity to engage in daily prolonged immersion within specific media of thought that, over time, become toxic media environments and can result in a state of mental imbalance. As a process for achieving stability, practicing media mindfulness is not about disengaging, but rather having a deeper awareness of the media environments that we are immersed in--how they engage our attention, how they affect our thoughts and behaviors and, most importantly, how we can manage them to avoid their harmful effects. Simply changing one's media environment results in a new way of attending to information and even a shift in one's behavior and thought patterns. This book explains why our media environments are often toxic, the effects they can have on our mental health, and steps we can take in order to practice mindful, balanced, and healthy engagement with media environments. The specific focus of this practice is on managing the psychological effects of all media. Readers will learn how to manage their media environments for optimal mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health with the aid of a simple mantra: Change your behaviors and your thoughts will follow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781476687810
• ISBN-10: 1476687811
• Artikelnr.: 69595959

Autorenporträt

William Indick is Professor of Psychology at Dowling College in Oakdale, New York. He is the author of several books on media psychology, and has written for numerous psychology journals. He lives in Islip, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Media Mindfulness, Media Balancing
Chapter One. Two Ways of Attending, Eight Ways of Knowing
Chapter Two. The Principles of Media Engagement
Chapter Three. Linguistic Media: Anxious Depression and the Primary
Environment
Chapter Four. Logical-Mathematical Media: The Twin Demons of Time and Money
Chapter Five. Nature: The "Ground of Being"
Chapter Six. Music Therapy for Your Self
Chapter Seven. The Body: Medium of the Self
Chapter Eight. Visual-Spatial Media: Addiction and Counterbalance
Chapter Nine. Interpersonal Media: The Paradoxes, Illusions, and Delusions
of Social Media
Chapter Ten. Intrapersonal Media: The Spiritual Dream in the Temple of
Sleep
Conclusion: The Message/Medium Mind Flip
Epilogue: Stop Fighting Your Self
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index