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Healthy Tips: Stop Scrolling: Set Down Your Phone

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Too much screen time can negatively impact your wellness, whether you’re on social media or not. Scrolling on your phone (no matter what you’re doing) can negatively impact your everyday life — especially at night. Mobile phones emit a blue light that causes problems by affecting your sleep and potentially your eyesight with constant exposure. Source

Note: You ever ride by a school bus pickup stop and see the kids waiting for the bus? What are they doing? Are they talking with one another? From my experience, if there are 10 kids waiting for the bus they’re not engaged with each other. They are all staring at their phones and they are strangers to the people standing next to them. How do we learn to engage in meaningful conversations if we don’t participate in meaningful conversations? How do learn to understand one another if we are not in personal communication? Meaningful conversations is important to our mental health.

Think About It

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Each day I witness great degrees of loneliness. Loneliness is not relegated to the aged. It crosses all ages, races, and gender. I witness people more engaged on smart phones than in person to person interactions. Interpersonal interactions are not always easy. They are the way we get to know each other. They are the way we communicate more openly and honestly. They require us to set time aside to listen and to respond meaningfully. There’s something special about sitting down for a meal without technology and communicating. There’s something special about a “cheap date” at a coffee shop and talking about life’s issues. 

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