DAILY DIGITAL DETOX: A Steemit Community Life Series & Reminder | E.16 - Intentionally / Regularly Unplugging + my Quick Engagement Poll to you!steemCreated with Sketch.

in #life7 years ago (edited)

I have taken this subject pretty seriously over the years. You need time offline.

Regularly & Intentionally. For lots of reasons.


THE DIGITAL DETOX SERIES OBJECTIVE SERIES CONSTANTS:


My plan with this series is to intentionally remind you, daily to get offline, give your brain, eyes, soul a break and time to reset and remind you that relationships with people can suffer if you are always on your phone and not PRESENT -- in every sense of the word.

The irony of bringing this series to you online, asking you to get offline, on an online blogging platform, is not lost on me.



There have been limited studies done on some of the effects of this digital hold on our lives and they are concerning to say the least. Social media use appears to encourage some of the following negative effects, some of which we hear about regularly now:

-- Narcissism

-- Screen time/white light/activity appears to be causing insomnia/broken sleep cycles (circadian rhythm)

-- Detached reality making our society and kids less empathetic and in touch with reality

Results from the few studies that have been done are troubling. Social media appears to promote narcissism, smartphones could be causing insomnia, and screens seem to be making our kids less empathetic.

Earlier posts in this series covered that in more detail.



TODAY'S DIGITAL DETOX TIDBIT:


At home for dinner or while out with friends - Try ‘phone stacking’: Everyone places their phones/devices in the middle of the table. The 1st to grab for their device loses, so to speak and has to perform a task for the group, such as buying the next round, or buying dinner or making coffee/tea for the group or wash the dishes / clean the table.


A constant tip is change 1 habit at a time, so I will keep this in the series.


Reminder: (see past posts) -- Try to use proper, healthy posture techniques always and be purposeful about this.

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http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/posture-for-a-healthy-back

Stick with it and make notes daily about how you feel doing this! Share thoughts with a friend or 2!

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I don't embed my sources like "professional bloggers" -- 9/10 times -- people don't click the sources anyways, let alone hover the cursor to even check quickly, and this way, they can SEE the sources / url's -- that's what I prefer myself anyways, so if i get flagged, I get flagged, I am trying to appeal to the masses here.


It is more than just unplugging intentionally as I call it -- it is a return to some societal values that we have abandoned in favour of having all the access to data and online resources we have -- a shift is required. However:

Intentional Unplugging as I call it -- is a huge and necessary step.


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As a reminder of what we see daily in the PHYSICAL realm of problems, here is a graphic showing the damage of the neck and spine as it relates to pounds of pressure looking downwards all the time:

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(Sorry this is grainy but I enlarged this 2x, so you could see it better. This is right from the Ontario Chiropractic Association (hard to read but that is the source) -- and I wanted this unedited, it was a jpeg and resizing those means less quality)


My Community Engagement questions to you, today, if you have read this far are simple and will evolve over time:


Did you INTENTIONALLY "unplug" or stay offline this week? How many times? Give yourself 1 point for each day in your reply!

Did you unplug with a family member / friends intentionally this week and thus CONNECT to them meaningfully? If yes, give yourself a point in the reply section?

Have you realized this is a problem in your life, because that is the FIRST step! If so - 2 points for you!

Are you aware of this problem around you and your friends and family and have you addressed it with others? If so, you get a point also! ( Note I have always used the word "addressed" in this series, some people confuse this word with telling others what to do.... this is not the same thing. Dialogue with others is the goal. Awareness.)

Did you put your devices in another room at dinner time and at bedtime this week intentionally? That's a point each time, champ! List it! Think on it!!

Please tally up your points, list it in a reply and please open up about how you feel about these issues in your life and the world today!! Why??

Because this is a Community Resource and I care and we are all in this together. None of us are getting out alive.


That is the end of today's post in this series. I wanted to cover all the basics in the Series constants, as usual, for all the new people reading this post for the first time,

If you are still reading -- thank you very much and have a nice day. I hope something here helps you.







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Please note -- I will have limited internet access for awhile -- so PLEASE do not be upset that I cannot reply right away, or to everyone. I am dealing with some changes, and will have limited time online and will be happy if I get a few blog posts up a week.

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Good to see this idea back again! The only way I can escape it all is to be constantly in transit on vacation! LOL!

I want to keep at this but you know, when someone like Bernie flags you with 7 accts at full power, and on a post to help others, on my post to welcome Sommer here and try and help her.....it kinda knocks you down.

Some of this kind of thing on here is why gaining mass adoption while strange behaviour hurts people with no good reasons, or than bias, makes me wonder.

Bernie has bigger fish to fry right now - he's on the #kr lot right now who are doing MASS collusive voting! Not good for that platform that!! Steem on!

I have seen some of that for awhile now, saw your comments today on a post about it, and don't know the full story.

Why would someone flag a $100 post and kill my rep -- down to $2, on a post to welcome someone and show them kindness and where I was giving them proceeds out of the payments??

He's done it before, I do not make a ton of money on here, so it is clearly not that.

It's absurd behaviour alright! No answers brother???!!!

I have tried to encourage many people, when I can, and also just comment to people in the Korean community and be nice to people.

I wonder if part of my being targeted is because he has seen me encourage the KR community and now wants to harm me also.

You don't look Korean! LOL!

@barrydutton
This is very good advice about unplugging at times! It's a wake up call for all of us! Thanks for sharing!

It is a good reminder and someone is always reading the feed or needing the reminder- thanks my man.

@barrydutton
I feel the same way sometimes! You're welcome!

My Liberty contest post is up too now!!

Oh that's cool! Thanks for letting me know!

NP my man, you are everywhere, you would find it and comment eventually hahahahhaah

haha! Very true, very true!

I like the idea of phone stacking

Hope my #DigitalDetox series helps you, TY for commenting

Honestly I feel like most of my problems come from my addiction to tech

Unplug.

I have a whole series of posts to help you with one key point in each one you can work on -- others are in there too as you can see.

Have a good weekend!

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