Digital Detox
Hello World! So the Digital Detox was a little project that I gave myself several weeks ago (after seeing Estee Lalonde do a video about it) to try and move away from my dependence on technology. I had hit the point where I was reaching for my phone or going online without any particular purpose, it was just to pass the time. So I took it upon myself to spend 48 hours without my laptop or my phone. I shut both down and put them into my desk drawer and launched on quite the adventure. Below I have listed the observations/lessons that I learned about myself from it.
1. Because I don't own a watch or a clock, my sense of time was completely skewed and something that I found myself worrying about quite a lot even though there was no reason for me to know the time.
2. It allowed my body to fully recuperate in the way that it needed to. When I began the detox I had a massive headache and was just generally feeling exhausted from the week's work. I went to bed incredibly early on the first night (partly because I didn't have any TV to watch or catch up on) and my body was beyond grateful for the extra and electronic-less sleep.
3. I learned that I am an incredibly restless person, I get bored and impatient very quickly and found myself eating/cooking a lot more than I would be on a normal weekend.
4. I found myself almost hyper-aware of my body. I noticed that there was a pain in my hip from an old dance injury that was definitely coming back, which I hadn't noticed during the week, and I was very very aware of how tired I was and how much I wanted to just sleep.
5. You can hear the light hum of electronics around you. Because I live in dorms, I definitely still felt surrounded by electronics even though all of the ones in my room are off.
6. I got an insane amount of reading done, although I began to get irritated and really wanted to look up words or references to things while I was reading and was unable to.
7. I miss a consistent background soundtrack. This could be a homesickness thing and missing living with other people, but I became very aware of how quiet everything was without music or a tv show on in the background while I was cleaning or cooking, etc.
8. I became very grateful for the immediacy of phones. I was keenly aware of how much I missed just being able to text a family member or friend, even though they may be halfway around the world.
9. It's incredible how acceptable it is for people to be antisocial in public because they are glued to their phones. Technology is absolutely incredible but it is nothing compared to real live human connection.
10. I learned that it would be very healthy for me to become more comfortable and at home with stillness, silence, and simplicity. It's incredible how much our lives revolve around screens and just how much more time in the day there seems when we take those screens out of the picture.
1. Because I don't own a watch or a clock, my sense of time was completely skewed and something that I found myself worrying about quite a lot even though there was no reason for me to know the time.
2. It allowed my body to fully recuperate in the way that it needed to. When I began the detox I had a massive headache and was just generally feeling exhausted from the week's work. I went to bed incredibly early on the first night (partly because I didn't have any TV to watch or catch up on) and my body was beyond grateful for the extra and electronic-less sleep.
3. I learned that I am an incredibly restless person, I get bored and impatient very quickly and found myself eating/cooking a lot more than I would be on a normal weekend.
4. I found myself almost hyper-aware of my body. I noticed that there was a pain in my hip from an old dance injury that was definitely coming back, which I hadn't noticed during the week, and I was very very aware of how tired I was and how much I wanted to just sleep.
5. You can hear the light hum of electronics around you. Because I live in dorms, I definitely still felt surrounded by electronics even though all of the ones in my room are off.
6. I got an insane amount of reading done, although I began to get irritated and really wanted to look up words or references to things while I was reading and was unable to.
7. I miss a consistent background soundtrack. This could be a homesickness thing and missing living with other people, but I became very aware of how quiet everything was without music or a tv show on in the background while I was cleaning or cooking, etc.
8. I became very grateful for the immediacy of phones. I was keenly aware of how much I missed just being able to text a family member or friend, even though they may be halfway around the world.
9. It's incredible how acceptable it is for people to be antisocial in public because they are glued to their phones. Technology is absolutely incredible but it is nothing compared to real live human connection.
10. I learned that it would be very healthy for me to become more comfortable and at home with stillness, silence, and simplicity. It's incredible how much our lives revolve around screens and just how much more time in the day there seems when we take those screens out of the picture.
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