Bing! Another piece of news that we’d best answer right away… The smartphone industry has closed us for the last 10 years Slaves of digital technologies and only rarely do we take the time to strictly put the cell phone aside and be fully aware of it dedicate to life around us.
digital detoxa kind of digital detox much more than just a buzzword. In this blog post I will show you which simple methods you can use to completely simply slow down digitally and you deliberately go offline can!
What is Digital Detox and what is it for?
We’ve only just woken up, are still in bed and are already checking the first e-mails, messages on Instagram, Facebook and Co., because we have to be in the first few minutes of the day be up to date!
Digital technologies have us firmly in its grip, however, screen time can bad effects on our body and life to have. We feel us stressedbecause we constantly check the mobile phone have to and Do not miss anything may, our Sleep and our relationships deteriorateas we devote more time to mobile than basic human needs, social media makes us increasingly dissatisfiedwe will more unproductive Etc.! You see, a real hamster wheel!
the fear of missing outwhich social media conveys to us every day, now even has a name: FOMO – Fear of Missing Out. Because if we’re not online for a day, we’ve missed a lot and who knows, maybe there was vital information there! If we turn our attention to Instagram and Co. again after a few offline hours, an infinite number of pictures and videos rain down on us, one true one sensory overload cause in us.
This is where Digital Detox comes in. Digital detox is more than just a trendy term! It frees us from cell phone compulsion and helps us deliberately without a cell phone get along and switch it off sometimes. So digital detox is with a kind Cell Phone Diet to compare, that is, with a time when we deliberately did not use the smartphone consume.
Digital Detox also shows us what the really important things in life are: namely those we do in the offline world experience! As a lifestyle blogger and marketing agency owner, social media is a really big part of my job, which makes it even more important to me, quite simply press the timeout button to be able to
5 effective ways to digitally detox!
1. One day a week without a cell phone
One of the most helpful methods for a successful digital detox is a offline tag. This means one day a week, where you deliberately do not use your cell phone. In order to still be available for emergencies, you can decide, for example, to leave your mobile phone switched on, but that turn off the internet. So you’re only for important calls and don’t be tempted to check social media and email.
Important with this method: Tell your friends and family about your plans, not that they’re worried or can’t reach you for emergencies! When they know about it, nothing stands in the way of a cell phone free weekend (or even a whole weekend)!
2. The bedroom as an offline zone
Another tip for detoxing digitally offline zones. These are areas where you consciously avoid using digital devices. That bedroom can be such an area, for example, since it has a negative impact on sleep and recovery when smartphones, laptops and the like are lying next to them. So it’s best to ban smartphones and laptops from the bedroom right away. So you don’t even get tempted to check your phone before you go to bed and after you get up!
If you use your cell phone as an alarm clock, the best thing to do is to look around for nice analogue alarm clocks.
3. Consciously take time for your smartphone!
Browsing Instagram and Pinterest while eating and quickly replying to a friend while watching a movie… Digital Detox helps you find yourself consciously focus on the moment and you learn not to always be thinking about something else.
So consciously take time for your smartphone and think about it fixed mobile phone times, where you want to check social media channels, for example. This can be after lunch or during the coffee break. also consider how long you want to spend time on your cell phonebecause we often get lost in the thousands of colorful little pictures and don’t even notice how much time is going by!
A Cell Phone Schedule is guaranteed to help you free yourself from cell phone madness. The smartphone robs us of so much valuable lifetime and we are mostly unaware of how many other things we could have done instead!
4. Enjoy the moment!
The day at the lake is so beautiful again, I have to capture it immediately on social media! Through Digital Detox you can learn live more in the moment and enjoying things in the moment, without immediately having the urge to post the experience on social media. The smartphone as a constant companion has given us the habit of feeling the urge to share things with others immediately.
This digital detox tip is by no means meant to stop you from sharing beautiful moments via social media, but it does depends on the time you pick up the phone. Of course you can take beautiful photos and videos of special moments, but then learn to put the phone down and only post the footage at the end of the day when you have time for it too! Because, as I’ve often noticed myself in recent years, if we share things immediately, sometimes it works Lost the magic of the moment and we only deal with what we see on the screen.
5. Nothing missed!
One of the most important things to remember about the digital detox is that you missed nothing! Even if you don’t check your social media channels and emails for a day, your life will not be informationless. After all, it’s only a few hours that you spend offline and it’s basically not important to always be up to date about everything and everything or, for example, the daily routines of other influencers. You can’t keep track of everything all the time and that is too unnecessaryto be informed. So put your phone away, take a deep breath and relax!
Have you already tried Digital Detox and what methods would you like to try to be consciously offline? I’m looking forward to your stories!
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