The greatest luxury for modern man is tranquility.
And when you are online, every second the senses are bombarded by gigantic amounts of information. Years ago, having a personal phone was a symbol of luxury. Today it is the exact opposite. The greatest luxury for modern man is to be able to afford to be offline. To rest without digital devices around him. Minds overheat. It is increasingly difficult for us to make clear decisions. It is increasingly impossible for many people to remain still and quiet.
How then to live and work fully?
Supposedly, we don't have time, but we waste hours on the web.
Supposedly, we feel lonely, and when there is a loved one next to us, we do not communicate with him, but with our phone. Supposedly, we don't have time to take care of ourselves, eh we passively surf in social networks. If you let it, the web will literally suck you in and steal your life! Read also: No one crosses our path by accident
Technology is neither good nor bad!
The way we consume them makes them so. We often do not take advantage of our right to choose, and instead of managing the time we spend with them, we become their "victims". Moreover, technology is infinitely useful and could make our lives much more qualitative and convenient.
BUT! Do we know how to use them,
so let's take advantage of this one value, which they give us?
It is important to determine if you have a behavioral digital addiction. Give yourself 3 hours at a time convenient for you and turn off your phone. If every half hour (or I suspect a lot more often ?) you feel a strong urge to pick up your device, peek into the web and feel increasingly restless and tense, maybe it's time to think about it.
Positive thinking doesn't work! Harmful trap!
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Here are 10 easy and applicable for everyone ways of digital hygiene
and how to manage our relationships with modern technologies without them taking away from the beauty of our lives:
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Dinner –
YES! Notice I'm not mentioning breakfast and lunch. I realize that it is impossible for most modern people to apply this to breakfast and lunch. BUT! Dinner! Her Majesty! Let's keep her free of digital devices. It is a time for communication with loved ones, food and peace. Just sitting at the table, don't pick up your phone. If he's within arm's reach (as he usually is ? you'll unwittingly give in to the momentum to walk into him. Because YES, it's just a matter of momentum!
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In the bathroom and toilet -
Well, you don't need your phone there! I laughed out loud the first time I didn't take my phone with me into the bathroom and then realized no one was looking for me. And even if someone called me right then, I can see who it is and return the call. I deserve to take a bath in peace! You also!
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On the favorite sport -
I respect any kind of motor activity. As long as she has it. Yoga, pilates, dance, fitness, running, walking, they all deserve to be a phone-free space. This is personal time. A time to release the mind and body from accumulated tension. Even if your phone rings, you won't be able to pick it up, but it will make you ask yourself hundreds of questions and "take" you out of practice. Just switch off and leave your phone at home, in the locker or dressing room. You deserve that time, don't you?
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At every hour -
You can set a checking rhythm yourself, depending on your personal regime. I.e. Do you find yourself picking up your phone every 5-10 minutes to check your email or log into your favorite social network? Then make it a habit to do it every round hour or two. If you have to talk on the phone often, use headphones. When you hold the device to your ear longer, it raises the temperature in your head. You can save it.
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In the evening, after a certain time, turn off your phone -
You decided at what time in the evening the phone is not vitally necessary for you. For example, after 21.00 make it a habit to turn it off. This way you will ensure calm evenings in which you will have time for yourself, for a cup of tea, for a few strangers, a good book, for your favorite face mask, for meditation: Check out the collection of meditations here and give yourself moments of peace! You know what your favorite things are that you still don't have time for. When you go to bed, if your phone is next to your head at night, put it on airplane mode. This way you will save yourself the night radiation from the waves that the phone constantly receives and transmits.
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Use one source of information –
You often go to several different platforms to reach the same information over and over again. Choose the source that you like the most and consider the most reliable and only use it.
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Install an app –
There are great apps that will calculate how much time you spent on your phone during the day. You will be amazed. You may find yourself checking it more than 100-200 times a day. Did you tell me you don't have time for yourself? ?
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20% of the applications are useful for you
again the Pareto principle. And the remaining 80 % are just wasting your time and are just a bad habit. See who they are and delete them. This will save you hours of chaotic scrolling. Read also: 5 approaches to not regretting anything
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Turn off notifications –
Not all, of course! Only the ones that aren't that important to you. Those notifications that pop up on your phone screen and provoke you AGAIN to log in and check something, and from there without realizing it you continue to a new window and then to the social network, etc. etc. and without realizing you wasted 15-20 min
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Set a phone-free period for yourself –
Once a week for a little longer. Approximately every Sunday for 3-5 hours. Just you and you! You and your loved ones! You and your favorite activities! You deserve it!
Let's face it!
When you're online you're out of life!
You don't even realize it's there. He, life just runs out. It goes without realizing it and without enjoying it. While the screen irradiates you, the other plan disappears and eludes you.
You cannot be present in both places at the same time.
Real life goes backwards. Your attention can be either in the screen or in life. Don't let digital technology take over your life completely. Use them. They carry an infinite amount of value. But don't let them rule you. Manage them yourself! This is your life! You decide! You choose!
Because... LIFE IS WONDERFUL! YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!
Author Milena Goleva
Milena Goleva is the author and host of a collection of 20 author guided meditations. Check out the collection here: milenagoleva.com It is the last project online yoga studio, in which yoga and meditation are practiced by people from more than 35 countries and 420 locations around the world. You can find the online yoga studio here: milenagoleva.com Milena is the creator of Yoga Place studios, a motivator, speaker, workshop leader, change inspirer and has helped thousands of people on their transformation journey.
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