I’ve tried to go without my phone more often and get out of the habit of having something constantly on in the background but I find myself just getting into this state where nothing is even vaguely pleasant, where I can’t find motivation to move, or where I pick up my phone without even realizing what I’m doing.
Is the answer meditation and exercise? It’s meditation and exercise isn’t it?
The answer isn’t meditation and exercise alone, but both of those might help. This book really helped me wrap my head around some aspects of meditation https://archive.org/details/mindfulness-in-plain-english-bhante-gunaratana