Why give up the smart phone? Real experience Leo Babauta month-long

What do you use your smartphone? Messages, calls, chat, reading, games, any information that you are interested in. On the one hand it is convenient, on the other - to a certain extent insulates you from reality. Can you live without your smartphone, how difficult it would be, and what you get from this? Here the experience of the well-known blogger Leo Babauta, waived his iPhone.

Leo Babauta

A well-known blogger, author of books on self development. He insists on minimalism in life, rejection of consumer culture and the search for real happiness. Babauta permanently gets rid of disturbing habits, beliefs and things that enslave man and promoting his example.

Smartphones, without a doubt, it is convenient invention but someone thinks that they are beginning to enslave man, forcing all the time staring at the screen. Here is the story of Leo Babauta renouncing smartphone for a month, with all the difficulties and benefits of such a move.

History of Leo Babauta

In February, I basically did not take with you iPhone. I thought it would be difficult, and at first it was. But then it became one of the best changes that have occurred in my "year of life without."

I really advise you to arrange a time with no phones. This gives you the silence, the absence of regular contacts and distractions full, rich interaction with people with whom you are dealing in reality with your thoughts and the environment.

First, it is really easy. If your smartphone accompanies you everywhere, where would you go (as it was with me until February), you have a lot of habits: to constantly check that there happens, send messages, just look for something on the Internet, as soon as this thought flashed through my head, actually all the time to do something in it.

I have suffered without it for several days: really wanted to get into the smartphone, when he was away from home, and at home sometimes too.

Did I miss e-mail from colleagues and snapchaty from children. I could not order anything immediately or watch some information that I want to know right now. I could not read on the train, he could not even tell what time it is, and it was really uncomfortable (like many others, I was not wearing a watch, watching time on a smartphone), so I'm constantly late.

Then I looked at their beliefs and habits, and found them interesting. The best way to deal with beliefs - is interested in them. In a train, on a walk in a store, I just paid attention to me at all why any of these habits.

And after 4-5 days I took my new reality without a smartphone. Just I realized that I'm going over to check something, to read, to find out to perform tasks when I am not home. I realized that it could only be my time, complete silence, concentration and detachment. That was my reality, and it is not bad. In fact, she even began to like me.

My world collapsed because I was not aware of everything every second and did not learn about each message immediately. And I did not stop the fact that I could not immediately find out who won an Oscar last year or where the Crimea.

Outside the house I thought was in the moment much more than usual, knew and saw everything that was going on.

Our whole life is in constant contact, and sometimes the lack of relief. It has been my experience in February, and in March I continued this habit a few days.

But recently I took a smartphone for good reason... and all my old habits immediately returned. So now,In most cases, I'll leave the smartphone at home.

What do you think? Do I have to give up your smartphone for the sake of completeness of reality?