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2024 is the greatest year ever to be on this wonderful three-dimensional earth! We have innovation, information, and inventions that provide opportunities that no generation before us has had. Each year going forward is going to be even better as we're going to keep building toward a greater future. Think of all the wonderful things that have been invented since the inception of this young great country we call the United States. We have planes, trains, automobiles, electricity, phones, Slurpee's, and great medical advances i.e. penicillin, insulin, polio and other vaccines, heart and brain surgery and many others. All of these advances have occurred just in time for us, the most blessed generation. As great as the real world is, it will improve even more if collectively we care about it more than the millions of virtual worlds that we have created for ourselves.
The movement's mission is to bring more joy to the world by increasing the number of people who love their neighbors and those around them in the three-dimensional world more than their two-dimensional electronics that contain a very distorted or virtual reality. There are millions of social media influencers convincing people to spend time in the virtual world. Thus, the need for reality influencers. A reality influencer is someone who influences people to enjoy the real world and put away the electronics.
Increasing the amount of time spent on real three-dimensional activities is liable to improve your:
* Health
* Wealth
* Wisdom
* Mindfulness
* Focus
* Optimism
* Empathy
* Personal/Business Skills
* Sleep
* Relationships
* Happiness
Real food will nourish you. Real roofs will shelter you. Real love will sustain you. Real friends will comfort you. These are some of the most important things and we all require real air.
Let's all be great at real life!
Here are some tips for reducing screen time:
1) Use your personal devices in personal spaces. You should leave your phone in the car when you're meeting someone in public. Focus your attention on the people you're meeting with and surrounded by.
2) Wean yourself down to a respectable amount of around two hours of screen time a day. If you currently consume ten hours of screens per day, reduce that amount by one hour or one half per day until you are at or under the two hours per day mark.
3) Stop looking at screens an hour or more before bedtime to help quiet the mind. The unnatural lights of screens before bedtime are also known to make sleep more challenging.
4) Don't use phones while driving or eating meals. If you have a lunch break at work connect with a human instead of a screen. Human interaction is essential for mental health.
5) Get a flip-phone (no internet). See if your quality of life improves after ninety days. You can always go back if you feel you're better off tethered to the web.
6) Only use phones for practical purposes.
7) If you need a smartphone for work, try to disconnect after hours. Tell your coworkers it's vital to your health and encourage them to do the same.
8) Don't sleep with your phone in the room with you.
9) Fill the extra time and void that you may have with new activities that are fun and rewarding.
If you are struggling coming up with something to do, here are some ideas.
Play a game, play a sport, exercise, go to the beach, go fishing/hunting, decorate, build something, knit, start a business or organization, play an instrument, sing, dance, read, write, teach, go to a park, take a vacation, look at the stars or clouds, love your neighbor, plant a tree, solve a puzzle, donate something, give to a charity, adopt a pet, adopt a child, join a program, forage for mushrooms, wash or clean something, take a scenic drive, go to a zoo/aquarium, get a job, go sailing/boating, attend a church, attend a seminar, converse, invent something, smile, laugh, eat, drink, be merry, offer help, go shopping, learn a new skill, make a new friend, go to a car show, go swimming, listen to music, cook or bake, go to a concert or sporting event, do housework, attend an open mic night, go horseback riding, skate, bowl, blow glass, pottery, painting, gardening, start a collection, go to a museum/art gallery, have a BBQ/picnic, take a hike, act in a live performance, celebrate a holiday/birthday, go to a party, fly a kite, scuba dive, or learn a new language.
Despite the beauty and magnificence of the real world there is a startling trend in the increasing amount of time people are spending in the virtual worlds created on our electronics. Phone, video game, media and virtual addictions are running rampant for many reasons.
1) Many big businesses in America incentivize customers to use electronics by way of digital
coupons and discounts to use applications. Don't support these businesses.
2) The media won't speak against electronics because electronics are their main platform.
3) Children are given internet phones and other addictive electronics by parents, often
at a young age.
4) Half of advertisements contain electronics.
5) The practical uses of electronics give us justification for overuse and abuse.
6) Electronics are legal, readily available, and easy to use.
7) We are being influenced to be on our phones and electronics.
8) Phones and video games release dopamine into our system.
9) Phones and computers may be used for other addictive behaviors. Shopping,
gambling, and sexual temptations abound.
10) Since over half of us are looking at screens herd mentality and peer pressure
are pushing that number even higher.
Phones and internet are wonderful inventions but must be controlled. All the focus, time, and care given to the virtual world is less focus, time, and care you are giving to the real world. Henry David Thoreau may have have summarized the state of electronics in modern society best, "Men have become tools of our tools." Minimize phone use and be kind to those around you. Kindness leads to happiness.
If you're spending too much time in the virtual these books may be able to help:
Breaking The YouTube Addiction: Strategies for Reclaiming Your Time and Mind (Breaking the Internet Addiction) by Thomas Banks
Digital Addiction: Breaking Free from the Shackles of the Internet, TV and Social Media by Lora Ziebro
Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity by Nicholas Kardaras
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Disconnected: How to Protect Your Kids From the Harmful Effects of Device Dependency by Thomas Kersting
Facing Internet Technology and Gaming Addiction: A Gentle Path to Beginning Recovery from
Internet and Video Game Addiction by Hilarie Cash PhD, Cosette Rae, MSW, and Patrick Carnes PhD
Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras
How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price
Internet Addiction: Understanding Risk Factors by Stevie White
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning by Nicola F. Johnson
Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dummies by David Greenfield PhD
The Phone Addiction Workbook by Hilda Burke
The Twelve Steps for Smartphone Addiction: A Spiritual Path to Responsible Use of Smartphones, Gaming, and Other Digital Technology by James Sugel
Virtual Addiction: Help for Netheads, Cyberfreaks, and Those Who Love Them by David Greenfield, PhD
Online Resources (We have no affiliation with any of these resources):
www.internetaddictsanonymous.org
www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/phoneaddiction
www.helpguide.org/articles/addictions/smartphone-addiction.htm
www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists?category=internet-addiction
Thank you for taking the time to read this information. Hopefully it will help bring you and your community joy by influencing you to reduce your screen time. This is an important issue making many people unhappy in what should be the greatest era.
Now it's time to get off the internet and go enjoy reality.
May peace, love, and happiness be upon you.