Do you check your iPhone as soon as you wake up in the morning?
Are you hunched over your laptop after work?
Glued to the Ipad during your commute?
You might be a good candidate for a digital detox.
Willing to give it a whirl?
Here are a few ways to get started:
1.
Get help if you need it.
to help cut the digital cord.
Re-learn how to entertain yourself without the glow of a screen.
Or take a step the Zen direction and learn how to not entertain yourself at all.
In the evenings, say “lights out” and actually mean it.
You simply must create a nightly digital sundown to support your physical and mental health.
Go back to your old friends, pen and paper.
How to give your brain, eyes, wrists and fingers a much-needed rest?
Step away from the blue-light-beaming screen and go old school: pen and paper every now and then!
Make notes, doodle during dull meetings, write a love song orstart sketching whatever moves you.
Get a little less social.
If you want to regain more control over your digital life, slash your social media time.
Check-in in the morning and again at night, and call it a day.
Put the brakes on your email.
How to combat the influx?
Some ideas:
7.
Read like a kid at sleepaway camp.
Hide your smart phone.
Get a “dumb” watch, not a smart phone.
An old-fashioned watch will give you one less reason to constantly check your phone.
Spend time in places where cell phone use is frowned upon.
Put it on the calendar.
Make time for periods of digital detox, and write them down as you would any other appointment.
Set a nightly electronic sunset time for yourself and your family and stick to it.
Commit to a weekly digital “Sabbath,” and try doing a weekend, completely unplugged.
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Hes looking at the body as a system rather than looking at isolated things.
In addition to his practice, he is also an instructor in mbg’sFunctional Nutrition Program.
