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Are your Tech Devices making you sick? Reduce Your Stress and improve your Health with the 5:2 Digital Detox

Technology has its upsides but it also has and they can either wait till you are back online (or send a carrier pigeon many downsides and has reached the point where with a message if they are really it’s affecting sleep, daily stress levels, quality of desperate). relationships and, ultimately, quality of health. Follow the tips below and watch the video where I explains how you You can restore the balance though Step One: can make it through http://www. and get quick results by taking Print this tip sheet and checklist out back2health.net.au/getting-the-most- charge of your technology and giving so you can put it somewhere you’ll out-of-your-52-technology-detox-2/. yourself two days a week where you see it every day are tech free. Step Four: Step Two: As you complete each day The rewards are plenty: Decide what days you are going to successfully, put a big green tick on Better sleep. Reduced stress, Better have your detox and mark them on the calendar below. (And if you don’t relationships. You’ll even ‘think the calendar below. The two days quite make it on the day you allotted, better’ and have a more relaxed don’t have to be together each week choose another day to make up for it). outlook on life. It takes a little work so choose days that you expect to be to get there though so follow the steps less challenging for you. Step Five: below to put you back in control Celebrate your successes. Remember, of your technology instead of your And if you can only manage half your chasing a health goal here so technology being in control of you. a day at a time, that’s better than don’t undo any of the good done nothing so start there. by choosing a reward that takes you backwards. Step Three: Turn the screens off when you go to bed the night before your detox day. If need be, let your friends, loved ones and colleagues know that you’ll be ‘off the grid’ for the day Key points to Clear boundaries: Get plenty of sleep: Set the ground rules and stick to Try to be in bed by 10pm – or at remember during your them – no screen time means not least get eight hours of sleep on the Digital Detox: checking emails, texting, Facebook or two fasting days. Ayurveda says the MasterChef. body goes into its second phase of Out of sight, out of mind: digestion and you need to be asleep Over 40 percent of mobile phone Get organised: for this to happen. users sleep next to their phone at Make sure to let co-workers, family night, with many actually snuggling and friends know ahead of time what Watch what you eat: up to their device in bed at night. It’s you’re doing, otherwise they’ll be For the best results, incorporate critical to create physical distance concerned you’ve disappeared. the 5:2 diet into the technology with all technical devices during diet – so on fasting days try to eat the two days of detox. This light has Head for the outdoors: light or vegetarian and stay away direct effect on the pineal gland and Disconnecting from social networks from alcohol. this is a worry for teenagers. doesn’t mean disconnecting completely – instead, go for a hike, a bike ride or a picnic with friends and have real-time conversations.

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