Digital detox

Live your present because it matters the most!

1. Rukshana Thomas

2. DIGITAL DETOX REFERS TO A PERIOD OF TIME DURING WHICH A PERSON REFRAINS FROM USING ELECTRONIC CONNECTING DEVICES SUCH AS SMARTPHONES AND COMPUTERS. IT IS REGARDED AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE STRESS OR FOCUS ON SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD .

3. We WISH accomplishing a digital detox was as easy and consequence-free

4. TAKE A QUIZ app Track Your Habits : turn your online habits into cold hard data. the Lite version is free, premium is $9 a month tracks and reports how long you spent on specific websites lets you block certain websites allot time for distractions and set goals for your computer and work habits.

5. Moment (free for iOS , coming soon to Android) New “invisible” app does all of its work in the background of your phone Set daily limits for yourself and get notified “put down your phone and get back to your life.”

6. 4. Download This App to Go HAM on Your Habits: encourage you to disconnect and apps that will sever the cord and not let you log back on. Freedom works on Android ($5) put your phone back in “1995 mode,” turning off cellular data, WiFi and Bluetooth so you can ONLY use it to make and receive calls.

7. Strip Away Social Media Anti-Social ($15 for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu) will block your work day’s biggest time sucks. Warning — once you flip the switch, you can’t turn it off, so make sure you’re ready to say goodbye to Facebook for the day before you do !

8. Get Only the Emails You Want making your tech work 4 U instead of being slave to the gadgets Sites like Unroll.me, a couple quickGmail hacks, apps like Mailbox & the upcoming Mail app in iOS 8

9. Calm.com ` If your job keeps you on the computer for most of the day’

10. Distract Yourself With More Productive Apps Skip the Candy Crush download Lumosity Instead of updating your status, start tapping away on that future novel or screenplay with a nyone of digital tools for writers

11. WE LIVE IN AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY

12. Turn off, shut down, log out: the digital detox holiday is here

13. Developing a new code of ethics around technologies, creating social etiquette, setting positive cultural norms, and raising awareness around harmful habits while sharing the importance of mindfulness is urgent. This is our opportunity to set the stage for future generations and celebrate our humanity along the way. Together, we’ll redefine what it means to be connected.

14. T ourism operators are responding to demand by offering “digital detox” so that people tend to disconnect. Since nine years Apple released its first iPhone, smartphones and tablets have become an ubiquitous part of daily life Australians aged 18 to 24 use at least four online devices — and their elders are catching up. The amount of data downloaded to Australian mobile phones in 2013-14 was almost double the amount downloaded in 2012-13. The handheld revolution continues to gather speed, but a growing number of people are trying to pump the brakes.

15. Mrs.Caroline Babbage is the owner of Fawkes House in Carmel, an award-winning hills retreat surrounded by vineyards and gardens. Mrs Babbage recently launched a “digital detox” first in Perth. “I noticed more people were saying they didn’t want the wi-fi codes because they wanted to get away from that” G uests can choose from a range of slow-paced activities to promote “mindfulness”. Digital detoxes are wildly popular in the US and South Korea and operators across Australia are catching on.

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17. “ We use technology, we maintain control over it and anything that gives us a sense we can exercise more control is fantastic, but addiction rhetoric takes away from that.”