Social media addiction

[jacknine119]

Guys you know today is impossible without internet. i deleted all social media but now i do this with google chrome. sometimes i really have important thing to do there but after doing this i am scrolling. and how can i balance this thing? i really want to just sell phone but today is impossible without this shit...

[Nilsi]

„Goethe conceived a human being who would be strong, highly educated, skillful in all bodily matters, self-controlled, reverent toward himself, and who might dare to afford the whole range and wealth of being natural, being strong enough for such freedom; the man of tolerance, not from weakness but from strength, because he knows how to use to his advantage even that from which the average nature would perish; the man for whom there is no longer anything that is forbidden — unless it be weakness, whether called vice or virtue.
Such a spirit who has become free stands amid the cosmos with a joyous and trusting fatalism, in the faith that only the particular is loathesome, and that all is redeemed and affirmed in the whole — he does not negate anymore. Such a faith, however, is the highest of all possible faiths: I have baptized it with the name of Dionysus.“ - Friedrich Nietzsche

[enchanted]

6 hours ago, jacknine119 said:

Guys you know today is impossible without internet. i deleted all social media but now i do this with google chrome. sometimes i really have important thing to do there but after doing this i am scrolling. and how can i balance this thing? i really want to just sell phone but today is impossible without this shit...

Just admit we love our addictions. Before we had that bad habit, we actively sought it out because it brought us joy.

Now you want to "go back". But go back to what? There is no going back. You can only go forward to whatever you seek out next. 

 

Edited May 26 by enchanted

[Ayham]

@Nilsi and how does that vision get actualized? This is like the Ubermensch right?

[Ayham]

I think going small is best

Cutting social media is not possible, just switch to healthy content, spiritual content, personal development content, philosophy, science, whatever you are into.

Focus on building habits temporarily 

Make a year or so plan where you add a habit every month, and you aren't going to judge yourself as long as you do the one habit you are supposed to do everday, and make an ideal and a bare minimum for it.

For example:

1. June: daily meditation (bare minimum: 5 minutes, ideal: 1 hour)
2. July: going to the gym (bare minimum: put shoes on and walk to the gym, ideal: train really hard, cardio and weightlifting)
3. August: Journal (bare minimum: write for 1 minute, ideal: write for 15 minutes)
4. September: contemplation (bare minimum: contemplate for 5 minutes, ideal: do a full contemplating session for an hour)
5. October: writing (bare minimum: write about a topic for 5 minutes, ideal: write a whole essay)
6. November: reading (bare minimum: read one page, ideal: read 30 pages)

You get the idea, the idea is, you have a bare minimum, which makes it really hard to skip a day, because it's so easy to do, you won't skip it, and once you get started, 80% of the time, you will continue, and if you don't, it's fine.

This works as a permanent fix, changing too much won't work, gradual and simple, while still allowing yourself to be spontaneous is the best way, it's the only thing that worked for me.

You just make a plan like this, with a strong why and idea of who you want to be, it's extremely easy to stick to it, and within a few months, the ball will start rolling, and once you get so used to it, you don't need to keep track of anything, it will be so natural.

But an important tip: making meditation the first habit makes everything else much easier to stick to.

[Yimpa]

Have you tried The Light Phone?

[UnbornTao]

turn it on when needed.