The weather is warming up, birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and you’re probably still staring at your phone. Spring is the perfect time to reevaluate everything in your life, ditch what’s unnecessary, and get that fresh-start feeling—and that applies to the way you use your tech too. Don’t worry, we’re not going to say you should give up your phone for an entire week. (Because, let’s be honest, that’s just like going on a juice cleanse. You’ll hate it at first, cheat a little, claim to feel ~perfectly weightless~ by the end, but as soon as it’s over you’ll go back to your bad habits.)
Instead, this digital detox is all about seven small changes—a new one for each day—that you can adopt to take your iPhone relationship from obsessive to actually healthy. (Think you don’t need a detox? Find out: Are You Attached to Your iPhone?)
“By choosing how and when you use your digital devices, you’re establishing yourself as the master not the slave,” says Dr. Barbara Mariposa, a London-based medical doctor and educator in the field of mental and emotional wellbeing.
“Digital tech overuse means we are ‘always on,'” she says. “It’s really hard to find the off button, especially because of the addictive nature of overuse, and FOMO. The brain needs breathing space as much as the whole human does.”
So follow Dr. Mariposa’s guidelines (which are easy enough to maintain even past your week of detoxing) for the ultimate tech spring cleaning.
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