“Attend to Thyself:” Attentiveness and Digital Culture

"The rise of digital culture has created both tremendous human possibilities as well challenges and problems. Powerful corporate commercial interests compete for our attention, which become a valuable commodity in the online world. Living organized distractions, awareness is fragmented, causing us to lose touch with ourselves, neighbors, world around us, God. This paper explores traditional ascetic practice attention watchfulness it recommends coun¬terweight modern cultural, psychological, spiritual fragmentation. The principal sources under consideration are drawn from Philokalia, collection writings devoted “attending oneself.” Keywords: culture, watchfulness, hesychasm, spir¬it¬uality, distractions "