{"id":10217,"date":"2018-12-12T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:39:56","slug":"how-to-have-a-healthy-relationship-with-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/12\/12\/how-to-have-a-healthy-relationship-with-your-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to have a healthy relationship with your smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"

We keep everything on our phones. Banking, emails, social media \u201d\u201c you name it, it\u2019s probably on there! This means we\u2019re literally always on our phones, and that\u2019s not healthy.<\/p>\n

So, how can you make sure you have a balanced relationship with your smartphone? We\u2019ve got some tips and tricks on how to avoid using your phone too much without having to cut yourself off completely.<\/p>\n

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Use Flight Safe Mode<\/h3>\n

If you are an iPhone user, you can use the Do Not Disturb feature which clears your screen of any notifications while it\u2019s on. It means you won\u2019t be distracted by your phone flashing as messages, emails and social media notifications come in. Instead, you can check it after a considerable break.<\/p>\n

The quickest way to enable this is by swiping up from the bottom of the screen to find your Control Centre. You’ll see a crescent moon icon on the left hand side which is Do Not Disturb.<\/p>\n

Using the bedtime feature in your phone will put do not disturb on between the hours you choose to sleep, so you won\u2019t be woken up by your phone in the night. It’s the same for Flight Safe Mode – you won’t receive any notifications while it’s on so you won’t feel the need to pick up your phone.<\/p>\n

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Keep it out of your bedroom<\/h3>\n

Or, you could eradicate phones from your bedside altogether. It has been suggested that it\u2019s a perfect way to get more sleep and keep us off our phones \u201d\u201c if your phone is in another room, it shouldn’t be able to wake you up, in theory.<\/p>\n

What stops us from doing this is using our phones as alarm clocks, but if you invest in an alarm clock, do you have any other need to have your phone so close to you when you sleep?<\/p>\n

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Disable notifications<\/h3>\n

Without your phone telling you have something to look at, it\u2019s unlikely you\u2019ll feel the need to look at it anywhere near as much as you do. Switch off your notifications for your social media apps, and even your emails if they are personal and you\u2019ll be less inclined to check in with your device.<\/p>\n

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Go without for a day<\/h3>\n

This is a little bit trickier but we promise, it\u2019s absolutely worth it. Find a day out of the week (if you can) to be completely and utterly without your phone. Go and do something you\u2019ve been itching to do \u201d\u201c and don\u2019t post about it on social media! We\u2019re sure you\u2019ll love to be in the moment. Having a little digital detox will do you the world of good.<\/p>\n

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Use greyscale<\/h3>\n

The brunch that girl from work you follow on Instagram had just isn\u2019t as appealing when it\u2019s all completely grey. The less aesthetic pleasing everything is on your phone, the less likely you\u2019ll want to look at it. This will help not only reduce the time you spend on it \u201d\u201c so you\u2019ll use it for more meaningful tasks than aimless scrolling \u201d\u201c and it\u2019ll stop you wanting to keep checking it.<\/p>\n

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Set boundaries<\/h3>\n

Get into the routine of not checking your phone when you wake up, during meal times and when you go to bed. It\u2019s advised that we don\u2019t look at screens before bed as it keeps our brains working when we should be winding down. It takes us longer to fall asleep because of it, so we\u2019re groggy when we wake up in the morning.<\/p>\n

Hanging back on our notifications when we wake up gives us a chance to clear our minds before the day begins and keeping your phone away during meals helps you to connect with your loved ones without distraction.<\/p>\n

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Rethink the snap<\/h3>\n

We\u2019ve gotten so used to taking pictures of just about everything we see that\u2019s interesting. We\u2019ll take selfies beside landmarks, or we\u2019ll capture the candyfloss sky of a sunset \u201d\u201c just because. As we\u2019re doing it more and more often, we should stop to think about whether we really need to take a picture of it to share on our feeds when we could just savour the moment as it is!<\/p>\n

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Use your phone to connect<\/h3>\n

We mean rather than scrolling through different feeds with reckless abandon. Use the time on your phone to check in with a friend or contribute to a conversation you see on Twitter. Then, you\u2019re using your time to do something rather than doing nothing and you\u2019ll feel better for using your time more wisely.<\/p>\n

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Take breaks from social media<\/h3>\n

Take yourself away from social media every so often as it can be damaging for us. Is there a channel that you find the least useful, or that doesn\u2019t add anything to your day? Start there, then try to move away from all of your social profiles for a short while. Without social media, you\u2019ll use your phone more productively.<\/p>\n

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We keep everything on our phones. Banking, emails, social media \u201d\u201c you name it, it\u2019s probably on there! This means we\u2019re literally always on our phones, and that\u2019s not healthy. So, how can you make sure you have a balanced relationship with your smartphone? We\u2019ve got some tips and tricks …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10217"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10252,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions\/10252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}