GET OUT OF THE BOX: Saving Yourself from Phone Addiction 

(If you are one of the many people who can’t seem to get their noses off their phones and are now suffering the grave consequences, this one’s for you.) Saving Yourself from Phone Addiction

With the advance of technology, most people nowadays would reach to their phones to check almost every basic thing in their daily life. Ask them the time and a lot would not even bother to look in their wristwatches or in the clock hanging on the wall. Ask them the date and a peek in the phone calendar would give it away. No more wailing alarm clock in their bedsides, phone alarm is always good to give the day a jumpstart.

It’s a whole lot easier now. If you got stuck on the traffic, well there’s a music player to ease your stress. Waiting for someone for three hours in a cafe? No problem, there are social networking sites to entertain you. Got loss in the city? Activate your phone’s GPS in a snap and you’re save. Got questions about love? Google it. Life becomes as simple as ABC, no more sweating in the small stuff. Travelling the world with a phone is like travelling with your home in your pocket. But walking without your phone is like walking without your brain.

Too much of anything is bad.

It may sound cliché but really, too much of anything can destroy you. A phone is just suppose to be a device to carry your needs and extend your home to your convenience when you are away, that is why it is callea mobile device. But it is not suppose to be your home. And we all know that too much exposure to phone and other electronic devices is risky to health.

It’s never too late to get out of the box, so here are few easy tips to lessen your addiction:

• Admit that you are addicted. This is important to easily recognize the causes and patterns of your addiction.

• Reverse psychology. If you are used to doing everything with your phone, do it the other way around.

— Buy a wristwatch, and do your best to try to use it in checking the time. Also, set up a wall clock in your room.

— Instead of using your phone for alarms, buy an alarm clock. You will find it more convenient because sometimes our phone’s battery drains overnight and fails to snooze alarm (obviously). And what more, it can make your room look good!

— Set up a calendar and hang it on your wall. You can choose the design of your own. You can also opt to post some sticky notes for reminders, it’s a lot of fun and more effective. Buy a pocket planner that you can carry with you if you’re out travelling.

• Disconnect to connect. Lessen the time you spend in social networking sites and set up a date with your friends when you can personally talk and have fun! Slowly, lessen the time you spend in surfing the net. Each day, reduce it with an hour.

• Turn off notifications of SNS alerts. You don’t constantly need to check everytime someone likes a photo you uploaded in Facebook or Instagram.

• Do not use your phone during meals, and avoid carrying it inside the comfort room, too.

• Lastly, repeat process until you realize that you can actually live normally without being in front of it the whole day.

Technology is meant to bring us comfort, and help us lighten the load of our works. But technology was create to help us, not to do everything for us. It is not suppose to make us lazy and unreliable; it is not suppose to steal the values instille to us as humans.

A lot of people are losing the capacity to really connect with people, children losing their childhood as most of their times that are suppose to be spent discovering their creativity are spent in much less imperative things like playing video games the whole time. And what story would be there for them to tell the next generation, that in their childhood they spent their days killing monsters in a box?

We wouldn’t want that to happen, and so it’s never too late to change it. Create a real home now, get out of the box. You don’t need to stop using your phone, as it is important for communication nowadays – you just need to learn to how to use it responsibly. Achieve balance and be happy!

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