Unplugged: How to live mindfully in a digital world

Wow! This book is amazing! Following reading this I decided to get rid of my mobile phone (that was 2 months ago!) Sounds funny but this is a life changer that I really enjoy re-reading every now and again to refocus on what a REALLY is important in your life......and it is not hours spent at a screen.

The way to stop smoking is to stop smoking. The way to get unplugged is to unplug. The question then devolves about how to it if you don’t know how. This book has lots of good advice for those who need to get control of their lives and use but not abuse their electrical devices. I didn’t realize that some people get addicted to the internet and to the iPad and to the smart phone. But they do. After reading this book, I started looking around me. At the car wash, a family sat waiting for their car to be washed. Each member, Mamma, Pappa, and the two baby bears had a hand held device. None of them looked up from the screens during the 15 minutes I was there and of course they did not talk to each other or acknowledge my presence. That’s not right. On the way home, a woman in the street was walking while looking intently at her device. She did not look up as I passed by and I rather doubt she knew my car was there and speeding. The danger is obvious and the danger of driving while looking at your device or texting is obvious and yet I saw people doing it. And come to think of it, I actually saw what orianna fielding (the author) discusses: people taking pictures of themselves and pictures of their meals. Those people seem to need this book to learn how to get their lives back. Unplugged says stop sitting and get active. Take a vacation from the internet. Learn to relax and enjoy your life without checking email or Farsebook and so forth. One size can’t fit all so I have to disagree with some of the advice particularly the advice to use apps and your smart phone to help you get unplugged. The suggestions for vacations are good, but most people can relax on vacation without doing yoga, meditation, spa treatments, Chi Nei Tsang, reiki, Ayurvedic massage, and a Bio impedance analysis. My family had a wonderful stress free vacation at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Bangkok (a place highly praised by the author) without using the spa. We just had fun relaxing and watching the boats go by on the Chao Phraya River. We stayed unplugged by having no device with us. You can do the same. And if you can’t, then try this book for suggestions.

interesting book Have not read all of it et

Common Sense thinking put into words.