Are you getting trapped in social media? Unable to liberate once you log, or feel shame for the habit of procrastination!
Don’t critics like that!
Let’s face it…
Always wonder how I can prevent myself from going on the social swamp. Which has wasted your precious time and left with the feeling of guilt?
Ever wonder, why you are not socially mindful?
The purpose of social media is to keep her prospective engaged by targeting their emotional or psychological well being and serving what their mind is willing to see.
How to stay happy on social media?
just like social media has drawbacks it also has some applications which can bring more satisfaction if it is used appropriately…
…Because no one wants to stay away from such an excellent creation. I am also not a social phobia. I really appreciate the creators who bring this to our world. We have to admire their creation (social media) mindfully and use it wisely.
but despite using it appropriately we got addicted to this so it became our responsibility to make good use of social media…
Table of Contents
seven steps to use social media wisely but mindfully
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Come up with purpose:
So, what I mean by coming with purpose; I thought you already guessed it, right!
we have to stay purposefully to be mindful. have you ever concerned why you log into your social sites…
… I understand you want to entertain yourself or keep yourself informed. However, what happens; despite taking the right kind of information we get attracted to worthless or Rubbish things that don’t provide value in our life.
Ask yourself, is it valuable for you or not?
I apologize for sounding hard.
but it is important to check the status, read all the comments, and like every post that isn’t even worth it.
I actually don’t have any idea; how wisely you are using your social sites. but you can ask this question to yourself, is this providing any value to my life or not
The problem with social media:
Social media are made to provide value in our life but we fail to navigate ourselves to lead in the web of social media and are stuck scrolling the screen reading every post, liking or commenting, and so on…
Just think, are you born to do this stuff…
How it affects you:
Coming to this social web without any specific purpose not only waste your precious time or energy, but its impact can also be seen in your thinking process.
have you ever reminded yourself in between of your work like what an amazing pic he had shared! how cool her story looks etc. is enough to compile you to log into your social account’s again
How to define your purpose
Defining purpose does not mean to emphasize yourself to follow rules. But it’s essential if you get over addicted to social media. Now, whenever you browse any social sites; keep in mind, why you come here
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Navigate yourself:
Navigating properly is the most essential part when you visit social media such as ( Facebook, YouTube, Linkedin, Instagram). However, most of us fail in this to navigate ourselves mindfully. This will result in distractions for our minds. And force ourselves to feel imbursed, or why are you not able to use social media wisely?
How it affects you ;
The most common problem that it brings is distractions. I know it sounds like beer but its effect can be seen on the different aspects of life such as mind-wandering, lack of concentration, laziness, low motivation level, and So on.
How to navigate yourself properly:
Before entering social sites I want to first see the time because this will remind you, how much time you give to this? Kendrick organizes yourself again and again why you came here.
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Gathering knowledge:
When you navigate yourself it is a must together with the right kind of information which is the basic thing that we always forget and look at useless things just because we are not in our control and you already know what happened next…
Basically, that’s why mindful use of social media is really important.
Effect of this:
The famous quote; “what we put decides what we get”
Putting the wrong kind of information in your head visit in that country queen and social media has fully filled with such kind of information like adult content murder politics and a lot of
Be open for valuable information:
Have you ever noticed your entrance gate of the social site is filled with horrible information and most adult content
But getting the right kind of information from social media isn’t hard as you think
You just have to follow the unfollowing right kind of thing but that’s not enough because these sites are built to entice you psychologically.so it is important to become self-aware and mindfulness is the best way to become self-aware in life.
Related: advance meditation guide for beginners to become fully aware.
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Avoid useless one:
Avoiding things from social sites is not that easy, but it’s not too difficult also.
Well, you don’t need to avoid things completely. you must enjoy it because it was made for us what I mean is that we need to avoid negativity. which has deliberately is spread all over the media from first when you click the login button till pressing back.
you will notice some kind of adult information are sprinkling for us to consume, if you get caught it hard to drag yourself out additional e if you want to consume such type of information you just try to observe yourself how things are going inside you notice how every second you are losing your sense of control and then…
Anyway, let’s look at how caught like the prisoner in social media affect us
Why it’s important to avoid:
Suppose you are a socially addicted person every day you spend hours crawling liking commenting you are utterly addicted to this your mind had learned to live with that but suddenly one day all this thing that you are willing to do snatched from you.
No, because your mind I want that pleasure again she gets crazy and thinking about all the rubbish things painful experiences that you have ever gather in your past experiences so how you fulfill that pleasure that your mind is willing from you
Here’s what happened:
through continuous thinking, your brain, and your you to satisfy that same emotional satisfaction that he was getting from that addiction, now you became agitated feeling frustrated stress and all the painful experience that you never perceived.
You completely get lost.
How to keep yourself avoided:
Three things that you must remember before avoiding anything else in life
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What you want to avoid:
It involves the sense of how deeply you are connected to something or somebody when you know the level of obsession for a particular think you better understand what are your strength or weakness
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What problem you might face:
This is the main part of breaking obsession: you practically implement the things to avoid obsession by putting the things in their order so it didn’t become too hard to release pressure and won’t become miserable.
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What is the consequence:
This path is also important as first or second, now you have put in your efforts in the right order so it’s time to see whether your efforts are working correctly or not if not then where is the spot that you can fill.
5. Look for the basic interest:
I want you to look for others for the term “basic interest“
Why?
because we relate our interest with our lives or dislike which is completely wrong to consider.
at least here.
Well we need to understand what is interest
interests are the faculties of our inner self which provide a sense of satisfaction, search happiness, pleasure, and fullness.
So what’s the need of interest here
what happened is that when we emerge from the social sites our mind looking for two things
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Pleasure: our mind can take pleasure from different kinds of things but mostly they are distractions
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Uniqueness: when we found something unique or interesting it gives the sense of amazing that’s why we often advised following our passion
What happens if we go without interest
Mostly two possibilities can happen
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You get some interesting or unique: if you get something unique life-changing that’s good it’s words to consume mostly we have to obsessed with this kind of things which is the best mindful use of social media
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You get distracted: if you notice something evoking within you probably it’s because something and well things sprinkle on that most of the time we need to avoid this kind of content to consume but sometimes it’s OK to accumulate this for information but doesn’t over go for that
Differentiate which is good or bad
The simple answer is: it depends
but if you want to ask if you are looking, the thing is well enough or not, just ask yourself…
Is it worth it for me or not?
I thought you would get the answer.
6. Remind your purpose:
Reminding intention is important to us all the above techniques. However, sometimes it’s not possible for us to distinguish what to do or not
so it’s must recognize awards self-time to time that why we are here and what you are currently doing?
What happened if you don’t remind
At the end, when you find yourself wasting your precious time just like every day the same guilt, emptiness, hopefulness and all the painful experiences start working within you which is enough to break someone completely. And I am well sure you don’t want to come across with them
How to remind yourself:
remember when we discussing navigating yourself I had to say that to see the time before you log on to your social sites
Here’s the catch:
Whenever you see the time I want you to calculate how much time you had spent here and depict yourself I already had given enough time but now it’s enough
So in this case:
Either you can leave this otherwise you can go for something valuable. that’s it.
7. Look for exit data
so what I mean by Exadata is that accumulate the data how much time you are giving to all the social media site monthly or weekly basis or see whether it’s declining or inclining
So you can measure what to do next to prevent yourself from getting over addicted to social sites and use it wisely or mindfully.