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7. Manage features on your mobile
Look into putting in practice some tips for effective time management like – deleting time-consuming apps and disabling distracting features like notification alerts, auto-push notifications, setting screen to gray scale to keep you from waking at night, creating a screen lock with questions like ‘what is the need?’ ; Why now? Etc.,
8. Create digital free zones
Have digital device/ mobile free zones and make it a practice to keep it out of sight during bed time, food time and family time. For example You may plan to have a charge your phone outside your bedroom.
9. Indulge in healthy hobbies/pass time activities
Develop healthy hobbies that you really like and feed your soul giving yourself the ‘me time’, it may include things like making time for quite walks, playing board games with family, outing with family, cooking, gardening, painting , meeting up with friends, reading good books, volunteering etc.,
Digital detox is all about taking charge and control of how you manage or spend your time, energy and what you give your attention to. It helps you realize what you want more and less of so you can break unhelpful habits and create new ones that are more meaningful.