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Mental Health Tip: Physically Distance Yourself From Your Cellphone
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mental Health Tip: Physically distance yourself from your cellphone at night and first thing in the morning.
Before sleep, put your cellphone in another room and replace it with a standard alarm. Can’t sleep? The constant checking of the cellphone at night, with its flood of blue light, exacerbates the problem and increases anxiety and the ability to rest soundly. Blue light suppresses the production of Melatonin, the hormone that controls your sleep-wake cycle.
In the morning, spend 30 minutes without checking the phone (that includes the Internet and all social media). Have some coffee , drink water, exercise, stretch, meditate, have breakfast, take a walk if you can, and center yourself before you look into the world of your cellphone.
You will be amazed, if you can do it daily, how much more stable your life becomes.
62% of Americans check their cellphones within 15 minutes of waking, according to a Deloitte Study . Visual media is engineered to keep us tethered to the screens and activate our fight-or-flight genome.
Break the habit.
Breathe and think and dream a little on your own. Take a walk in a park, or in your backyard.
Set your day as YOUR day before opening the many screens of civilization.
