We find ourselves having conversations with people waiting to be interrupted by our digital devices that then actively or passively influence the time we are spending with people.

Our phones in our hands ready to influence a current conversation.

All family members have them – even children who are too young but we’ve given in to peer pressure and convinced ourselves we will be able to monitor their safety better.

What we are not doing is living in the now being 100% present.

We think it’s the amount of time we spend rather than the intensity of being there uninfluenced by outside distractions.

Ways to live 100% in the present:

• Steady eye contact
• Voice contact where we ask the questions and listen to the responses in real time
• Hugging
• Appropriate touching – sometimes a clasp of the hand followed by another hand on top of that says more than a thousand words

Life changes when we put our digital devices in their proper place, which is as an aid to communication not a replacement for it.

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