When you can, do the following exercise: look around in a busy place (the subway, the doctor’s waiting room, a restaurant) and count how many are extracted from your mobile phones or tablets You’ll be surprised what you see!
Of course, the percentage of “Technological” will exceed 80%. All connected on social networks, messages, videos, emails?Where’s life? I stayed with Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Gmail, Android and Apple.
- Most alarmingly.
- New generations born since 2000 coexist with technology and know how to use it very well.
- A 1-year-old knows that to use a cell phone he has to move his index finger up and down.
- A 2-year-old girl asks her mother to show her what she looks like in the photo she just took in the park.
- And do the examples continue?.
It is true that it has also brought us thousands of benefits, and we are not talking about going to live at the top of the mountain or in a Buddhist temple to escape it, however, everything has a limit and there is a very fine line between using devices for what is needed and relying on them.
Technology has stolen important parts of our lives, some of them are
1? The thoughts themselves. We don’t spend time alone with ourselves, we don’t meditate on the pillow. We don’t think about what’s happening to us or the decision to make, when the mind isn’t so stimulated, can it roam freely and help us solve problems, have brilliant ideas?Gradually technology is ending our creativity and imagination. .
2? What were people like when there was no GPS?They asked a pedestrian, tried to decipher a paper card, or got lost. There is nothing better than being in a city and discovering what is not in the tour guides. Not much happens because we are about to resort to the card app on the mobile phone. Sometimes you have to get lost to find the essentials.
3? The opportunity to connect with strangers. Using the example of travel, you used to ask a local for something and you could even beat a good friend. This can also be applied to our circle of close friends. You can’t understand feelings through a screen, no matter how much we use emoticons or music; that’s what you have to be face to face for.
4? The sound of silence. The Western world and the big cities are full of noise, peace and balance are silent. We can connect with ourselves, enjoy the absence of disturbing sounds and begin to experience the precious silence.
5? The energy of the environment. It is scientifically proven that devices such as television or computers fill the environment with low energy, so it is advisable not to have them in the bedrooms and not turn them on before going to sleep.
Another important point is the fact that we are so used to taking pictures of everything we see that we are missing the real opportunity to enjoy the landscape. Through the eye of the camera or mobile phone screen, you can not appreciate the greatness of nature. aromas, sounds or emotions.
Start living beyond a mobile device!
6? Relaxation. Before the mobile phone, people would communicate from time to time, if they lived far away, or visited if they lived nearby. The anguish of sending a message today and the fear of not finding an immediate response creates a lot of stress. Not to mention the two blue whatsApp stripes or Facebook access time!We can go crazy!
We take the phone to the bathroom, sleep with the device on the pillow, leaving it on the desk or at the school office. We can’t wait a second to respond after it rings. By reducing the use of technology, you’ll be more relaxed and relaxed.
And finally, when using both the mobile phone, the details and the joy of living with intensity are lost.
When was the last time you saw the sunset, the rain falling or the birds flying?