Every morning, before your feet touch the floor, before coffee , before a single word to the person beside you, you probably have already checked your phone . One scroll. Then another. A headline about a crisis. Someone's highlight reel. An outrage you didn't ask for but now can't put down. By the time breakfast is over, you have already paid attention to dozens of things that have nothing to do with your actual life. We talk endlessly about what we eat . We read labels, track macros, and debate seed oils . But we rarely apply the same scrutiny to what we feed our minds every single day—and that diet, it turns out, may matter just as much. Here is a reframe that changed how I relate to my phone: Every scroll is a prayer . Not in a religious sense, but in the most literal one. A prayer is an act of directed attention; you turn toward something and say, this matters . Every time you open an app, swipe down a feed, or tap a notification, you perform that action.…