Holidays: How to survive without my smartphone?
updated the 28 August 2015 à 07:02Follow our tips to live without your mobile during the holidays!
You are part of the large tribe called “Sakaptoussakapteupa”: a species that likes to pace his vacation lost in the middle of nowhere, but at arm’s length from the laptop, imploring the great wi-fi god to honor you with its waves. Member of this brotherhood is Sonia, 35, irritated ahead at the thought of spending two weeks in a corner of the Landes moderately portable-incompatible. “For my phone line, I will leave any calls to go to my voice mail. But not Facebook or Instagram for days…I’ll miss it too much. ”
The advice of Pierre Massot, clinical psychologist and coach, organizer of Digital Detox stay at Chateau de la Gravel (Gironde): “Our commitment to our technology tools is already starting to grab at our free will. A stay in a place where one does not pick up the phone at all (or minimally) offers an opportunity to question the link. What’s happening in me when I feel this absence? Why is it so easy for my smartphone to distract me? Of course, the approach is less comfortable than to rush to one’s phone but it’s liberating! One may question the same way about their relationship to social relationships: the fear of missing something, of not being aware of everything, is not a manifestation of the ideal of omnipotence. A desire also to be known and recognised, because of the stigma that if I do not post, I do not exist. If we do not act with lucidity about the ties that bind us to these objects, they easily enslave us. The holidays are a good time for calming awareness into the game. I will end by reassuring your readers:. One who is really ‘hooked’ on his smartphone would never consent to reside in a place without network!”
Josephine Lebard and Nur Syazana H.
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