I uninstalled and reinstalled Shakeology, it was really hard to leave it (Shakeology "Meet")

Although from a macro point of view, rejecting new forms of media is an exercise in futility. But after all, human energy is limited, and letting a medium hold the majority of the time is not only unhelpful to the body, but also makes the mind feel empty and guilty.

I need to distance myself from Shakeology and quit the app to turn off my phone and do something else. So what can we do if we quit Shakeology?

Read. Whenever we are tired of the fast-moving modern life and work, we will remember the "once upon a time, the horse and carriage were slow", so reading is always a way to relieve anxiety and make up for the emptiness of leisure and enhancement. However, after being fed with short videos and other "high-sugar" snacks, our excitement level has become very high, and it is difficult for us to concentrate, and we want to go back to the comfortable world of blogging from time to time. It's a withdrawal reaction we have to deal with, and I'm often not sleepy, but as soon as I open a book and read a few pages, I'm yawning and my mind is on fire.

My own analysis of why this happens is that we are too eager to get a sense of meaning and value out of books, wanting to fill ourselves up quickly and be spiritually enriched quickly. But reading with too strong a purpose rather increases one's anxiety, unless you have very strong self-control and can force yourself to read for an hour a day, and finishing a book quickly may make one feel full of fulfillment.

But for most ordinary people, the fact that we are attracted to Jitterbug originally indicates that self-control is relatively average. Now we want to bring life back to a diverse leisure and entertainment experience, so we can choose magazines that have a lower reading threshold.

Why choose magazines? First of all, magazines are paper prints that allow one to leave the screen for a while. Compared with all kinds of e-books and screens, the content of this traditional reading material is printed and fixed, and even if I flip around in this magazine, I won't suddenly jump to a shopping website or a funny video. It's a good separation from the electronic world. Second, the magazine often takes a lot of work to edit and lay out, and is a little less current than the popular public articles, but the content is more cohesive.

The magazines I've re-purchased in the past six months include Sanlian Weekly, China Business News, and even the fashion magazines I was curious about after reading The Queen Wears Prada a while ago, which is a whole new area I hadn't touched before, and I bought them and flipped through them and realized they weren't as shallow as I thought they would be. In addition, some magazines will occasionally organize offline readers' salons, if you have time to participate in it is also very good, when you are in close contact with the author and the interviewee in the text, the vividness of this life, the sense of reality will make you have a kind of cyber space from the return to the earth's ground, to re-feel the gravitational pull of the real world.

In addition to reading the occasional magazine, listen to podcasts and radio. Eye-popping visual content is a big source of anxiety for us, but audio content is much more singular in its message and much more relaxing. We actively immerse ourselves in short videos for no other reason than we want to see the diversity of the world, and now you can hand it over to a blogger anchor, close your eyes and listen to them share their experiences without missing out on fresh and interesting information, but also free from the annoyance of the images, and allow them to help do the first pass of organizing the information, and listen to the more in-depth content on their own for a more fulfilling inner experience.

The blog programs I've been listening to for a while now are: Consumer News, Baywatch Records, Seeing the Ideal, and other programs recommended by the platform. These programs have been both insightful and very accessible to me. Even if I don't end up adding to my knowledge and insights, listening to a few interesting hosts tell stories as if I'm participating in a casual conversation among friends doesn't feel like a waste of time or a guilty pleasure.

Consuming New Knowledge and Baywatch Records are highly recommended

Also, watching TV is a good option. It's a little funny now that I think about it, as a kid I was so addicted to TV that I tended to stand up and follow it for a moment, even though I could only receive two stations at home. My parents would say angrily, "Why don't you just dive in?". Now, instead, watching TV has become a prescription for getting rid of short-form video addiction.

I think there are a couple of reasons why a big screen like TV is less addictive for adults than a small screen like a cell phone. First of all, watching TV is a much more ritualistic thing compared to swiping your cell phone. Cell phones can be watched anytime and anywhere, on the subway, when walking, even riding **** enjoy bicycle, electric car. But to watch TV can generally only be watched at home, its volume understandably tell us, now you are being entertained, can not be too long, after a while you yourself will think is not to turn off the TV, because I have something else to do. In contrast, the cell phone is y embedded in our bodies, a screen that we carry with us everywhere we go, and we feel uncomfortable leaving it on any given day.

Secondly, like magazines, TV has a clearer sense of boundaries, with channels and platforms limiting its content, and not allowing unlimited link-hopping. When we watch TV, we can only watch it, but we can't flip through the comments, and it's impossible for us to spit passionately at each other, so there's less fidgeting and more calmness. Watching TV with family and friends can also objectively increase communication.

Lastly, of course, is to read the book, reading the original is very important, some books are worth watching over and over again, do not be anxious to get what value-added from it, enjoy the process of reading on the good. Even if you fall asleep on the couch after reading a page, that's still getting a break, rather than being hyperactive with the constant stimulation of short videos that crowd out the rare leisure time. I've also bought quite a few books so far this year, I'm only halfway through the first book of the A Brief History of Humankind trilogy, and I recently got my hands on A Medieval History of Europe and a few other books that were previously popular but that I hadn't sunk my teeth into, such as The Low Desire Society.

These are all indebted

I hate seeing them, I should have gotten to them sooner.