Articles
35 articles on presence, mindfulness and attention.
This selection gathers articles around one aspect of presence. Read them as a path: start by understanding the mechanism, notice how it appears in daily life, then choose one simple practice to test. The goal is not to collect more advice, but to turn one idea into a concrete and repeatable experiment. Come back after a few days and reread the article that best matches what you are experiencing.
Resistance is the source of suffering
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Anxiety and presence: the two don't coexist
Anxiety lives in the future. Presence lives now. You can't be in both at once.
Why boredom is precious
We've eliminated boredom from our lives. It's one of the greatest mistakes of our era.
The paradox of control
The more you try to control your inner experience, the more it slips away. Presence asks the opposite.
Emotions as messengers
Anger, fear, sadness are not enemies to defeat. They are information about your inner state.
Fertile solitude
We flee solitude as if it were dangerous. But it's in solitude that presence becomes possible.
Dopamine detox: what science actually says
Dopamine detox is a popular phrase, but the science is often misunderstood. Here is the practical version that helps with phone overuse.
Diagnostic quiz
Understand the reflex after reading
Answer 8 questions to understand your scrolling reflex and get one concrete action rule.
Protect your focus
Methods and tools for interrupting reflex phone checks.
The beinstant app is coming.
Two minutes a day to come back to the present moment. iOS beta coming soon.