As a health and lifestyle journalist, I've spoken to sleep experts about the importance of putting away screens before bed and chatted with neuroscientists about all the ways social media can mess with our brain chemistry. After writing about all this expert-backed advice, I began dabbling with the best practices. I put my phone in the other room at night to charge and prioritized reading before bed. And yet, it was all too easy to fall back into old patterns, especially if I was particularly inundated with work or simply too drained to self-regulate.
However, I recently remembered an article I'd read about a founder who intentionally kept her phone on airplane mode for one hour (sometimes even two) after she woke up. In that time, rather than scrolling or checking email, she meditated, exercised, and journaled — essentially, she engaged in activities that supported her well-being and set her up for a calmer, more successful day.
While reading that story, I was inspired to approach my day in a similar manner, with intention and respect for my headspace. So, I set out to apply this rule to my morning. My self-imposed challenge: stay away from screens from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m.
I applied the structure intermittent fasting, when you eat only during a certain block of the day, to screen time — intermittent digital fasting, if you will.
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