Do you find yourself looking at your phone and not noticing? Do we need to be concerned?
When was the last time you went to a place and didn’t take photos for social media? Do you feel like living without your phone would be very difficult? Are these questions making you wonder if you do have an unhealthy relationship with your phone?
When did it all become a problem we were concerned about? It is deemed not a healthy lifestyle to have if spending hours in front of screen, so why do we continue it on our phones after long office shifts?
What can we do?
There are clinics, (mind you, expensive) that can help you wean yourself off the internet and your phone. The Priory Group hold weekly independent internet addiction stay in treatment costing a staggering £3640.
If the money is a scary factor in disregarding an addiction maybe it’s time to take a test ? Buzz-feed have a test that is checking off things that you do to find a phone addiction. Found here.
There are also other campaigns you can get involved with such as ’24 hours: Unplugged’. You can also purchase a ‘nophone‘ a device that is hard plastic in the shape of a phone, so during the day you don’t worry on where your real phone actually is.
Many people will unconsciously scroll through their social media sites, scary or sound like you? Does this make you concerned in anyway?
Would you be interested in taking part in a group 24 hours: unplugged campaign? Would you find it easy?
Retreat Centres
If you think that 24 hours without your phone would only render a small response with ill long term effect, why not check into the retreatment centres around the world that promise to return you from the ‘digital consciousness’. With many of these retreatment centres boasting beautiful landscapes to perform yoga and meditation, here is a list of some of the most popular.
Situated near the village of Ask on the east side of the island of Askøy, approx. 20 km north of Bergen, the main capital of western Norway. This Scandinavian retreat advertises the peaceful stay without phones or other distracting technology. Swami Janakananda Saraswati is the founder of the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School and Håå International Retreat Centre. He is the school’s educational leader and the architect of the courses at the Retreat Centre, where he also lives and teaches. Ask Retreatment Centre offer 2-10 day retreats for the practices of yoga and meditation from teachers that have studied over 30 years.
With multiple events set up throughout Europe and even in Hawaii, the rules of the Digital Detox retreats are no phones, no ‘work-talk’ and the encouragement of mind-fullness. Four events are in place for this year in May, July, October and November in locations in Italy, Somerset and Hawaii spanning 3-5 days of planned healthy eating and getting in touch with nature. Digital Detox have also set up a 30 day digital detox challenge for everyone interested in becoming involved from the comfort of their own homes.
Locations all over the world from the spa retreats in Iceland to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, Healing holidays have a package and location to suit everyone. The digital detox theory also being a theme encouraged by the company, offering nothing less than a week to escape the digitally chaotic society we all find ourselves in. Holidays of this detox type are becoming more popular and Healing Holidays boast a very successful rate in people being able to relax and turn off from the digital realm. From spa treatments to set day programs their is something available for anyone interested.
Situated in several countries within Europe such as Italy, Spain and with one in Thailand, The Healthy Holiday Company provides 3-7 nigh retreat programs to help everyone learn how to detox and spend time away from their devices. Suggesting that the most important aspect of the retreats is the locations beauty. Diverse mountains to ocean views the area of immense beauty will encourage the participants to re-connect to nature and the well being properties. Raw food diets, daily yoga, spa treatments and fitness programs are created to help people to detox with healthy effects.
With their digital detox slogan ‘offline, unplug, re-charge’ the Skyros experiences in Atsitsa Bay on Skyros Island, Greece is considered the most natural digital detox location as the island has limited phone signal and no internet connection. Encouraging a more organic and memorable holiday experience for anyone visiting. Writers Labs, Windsailing courses and painting studios offer the disconnected holiday to relax and become more interested in the ‘real world’. The digital detox program although only becoming recently a ‘trendy’ thing to do, has been happening for over 37 years on the same island. So its the first place to have considered the need for such type of a detox.
Do any of these locations and digital detox programs interest you? The promise of a better well being and nature loving sunrise yoga practices could help in the physical addictions that are connected to our phones. But we need to help with the psychological stresses that occur when we are left ‘off-line’ for too long.
Join the discussions on Facebook and Twitter to voice your opinions on this matter. Do you think we are all addicted? Are you concerned? Is it time to do something about it, and reconnect to reality again?
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