## Core Insight Each time you open email, text messages, or Slack, your breathing becomes shallower -- sometimes you completely hold your breath. The fix: treat each digital check-in as a presence practice. Before clicking anything, breathe slowly through the nose, feel the soles of your feet, and keep awareness wide open. With practice, this retrains the nervous system, turning what was a stress response into something "grounding, even generative." The key is consistency -- making the practice automatic rather than occasional. ## Source - **Document**: Mildly annoying, wildly effective advice -.md - **Author**: Alex Olshonsky - **Saved**: 2026-02-13 ## Connections - Related to: [[Health & Wellness]] - Extends [[Constant Reachability as Nervous System Degradation Pattern]] with a specific remediation technique - Applicable to knowledge workers who check digital channels dozens of times daily - The "mildly annoying, wildly effective" framing suggests high compliance barrier but high reward