Making something with your hands after a day on screens feels different. Notice that feeling.

Screen work happens almost entirely in your head, and your body spends the day holding still. Making something physical gives your attention a different kind of job: resistance, weight, the material pushing back. That shift is why half an hour of dough or wood or paint can leave you steadier than half an hour of rest did. The feeling is information about what you were missing.

Keep one hands-on thing within reach for the end of a screen-heavy day: bread, a sketchbook, a bike, a guitar. Give it twenty minutes rather than an evening. Notice how your head feels afterwards, and let that decide how often you come back.