All of these above helped me limit the smartphone usage; it didn't take away my constant urge of looking at the phone completely.. Then I found the ULTIMATE Mantra which prevented not only me but my kids from using Smartphone unnecessarily
The tricks I described below helped to some extent. But it did not take away my addiction with the phone and or the kids who are around me who use my phone-
I found an ultimate Mantra which is to make my colorful mobile - Black & White that is 'Monochrome Mode!’
If you can imagine it is like watching Black and White TV - that's how we watched most of the Ramayana in 80s and we never got addicted to the TV. See how my home screen looks.
With this new look, kids refused to touch my phone!
Phycological reasons which are not known to me yet, even for me the repetitive urge to pick up the phone dropped down to almost zero and it works like Magic!!!
You can also read my post in Quora here which I wrote sometime back -
https://www.quora.com/I-am-addicted-to-my-smartphone-and-wasting-so-much-energy-and-time-on-it-It-also-affects-my-mind-negatively-How-do-I-stop-this-bad-habit/answer/Kowshik-Vaishali?ch=10&share=ac3f9d77&srid=38qvi
This indeed sounds interesting ! I have just turned on monochrome!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteIt works wonderfully!
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