Ten minutes on the front steps before the street wakes up will steady you more than an hour of scrolling.

Rest and distraction feel similar and do different things. An hour on a screen passes the time without settling anything, because your attention is being pulled rather than resting, and you get up as jittery as you sat down. Ten minutes outside with nothing happening lets the system actually slow down. The difference is whether anything is demanding your attention.

Try it tomorrow, before the day starts, with no phone and no plan for the ten minutes. Steps, a wall, a window open. Do it three mornings and compare how you feel afterward against the same time spent scrolling.