Social Media Detox: How it can Improve your Life?

                                 

What is Social Media Detox?

Social Media Detox is basically taking a break from Social Media apps intentionally for a few days or weeks depending on your goals and needs.

Why Social Media Detox?

In today's era, screens have become our lives and we spend hours mindlessly scrolling, not completing tasks that need to be completed, and neglecting our personal growth. Why are we using Social Media mindlessly? Just scrolling not gaining any knowledge, not being productive. See Social media is designed in a way that it releases a chemical in our body named 'Dopamine'.

What is Dopamine?

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is released when we engage in activities that our brain perceives as rewarding. Dopamine regulates emotions, motivation, and pleasure.

Social Media and Dopamine:

In Social Media likes, comments, and shares that's what they do they create fake pleasure sense in us. We are not saying that you should not have fun in life but having fun that serves no purpose, creates no memories that you can remember is just wasting time.

This useless scrolling increases dopamine levels which is very bad for a person's mental health resulting in depression, ADHD, etc. 

Benefits of Social Media Detox:

• Productivity:

When you will have those hours that you used to waste scrolling you will spend them productively reading books, gaining knowledge, meditating, spending time with your family, working on your fitness. The things that actually matter in life.

• Improved Focus:

Social Media Detox will help you improve focus. When your dopamine levels are normalized it automatically serves many benefits and improved focus is one of them.

• Improved Mental Health:

Another benefit of social media detox is that you will feel a great difference in your mental health. Less or even no anxiety, mental clarity, no procrastination. Your life will be changed.

• Better Sleep:

When there will be no social media and no high dopamine levels your sleep patterns will be improved. You will sleep early and wake early which is a scientifically proven method for success and growth. When you will have a good sleep your day will automatically be productive.

Challenges in Social Media Detox:

See changing a habit is not easy and in this case, you are competing with your brain. Your brain wants dopamine and you are not giving it that. It will be very difficult in the early days no doubt but difficulties are what guarantee growth in a person. 

So, stick with your goals  and remember this quote:

        “You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

                                                                                                             — Paulo Coelho.