Which can be a solution to stay away from the smartphone during the evening?

When you realize just how much time you use it for your well being and how much you dont use for simple things like turning off the tap with your hands. Convenient and maybe time saving but what else are you saving with so much extra time you must have since your amart phone can do pretty much anything for you. How do you use that extra 3 minutes or do you check social media ? Nite

Reading a book you enjoy instead. Get caught up in another world! Plus, the less blue light your eyes are absorbing makes it easier to fall asleep.

Play board games with family, watch a show with family, go out with your friends, anything that doesn’t involve a smartphone.

At first turn on the bedtime mode to make it b&w and uninterested. Then keep the phone in a place away from you that you can’t see it.

I like to climb in bed get comfy and disappear into a good book. Let your mind forget about the worries of the real world for a bit. After reading I drink some water put the world on hold until the next day and sink into sleep. There is nothing so important it cant wait until the morning.

Set out some thing that would entice you away from the smart phone. For example, a book of short stories or essays that you really want to talk into. An interesting article that you’ve been meaning to read. Maybe even move your charger and any devices to a far reach so that it takes extra effort to get to them. What is it that you do when you are on a quiet vacation, or trip to the beach? Do that.

I normally put my phone on do not disturb and put it on a window still and then I read a book or write in my journal. its going to be hard at first but you just have to get into a groove of doing it :)!

Putting your phone in the bedroom to charge early in the evening is a great way to separate yourself from it. Be sure to set up your environment to be busy in other rooms (cooking dinner, reading in the living room, outside with the dogs etc). Have a paper and pencil bear you so that if you feel tempted to look something up, add a calendar event or send a text you can wrote it down to remind your self to do it later or in the morning. Being present in the moment has such high value for my own personal happiness.

I put mine in a different room than where I am reading or watching tv with my family while we wind down for the evening. Having to physically move to another place to go fetch it and use it makes me think twice about using my phone in the evening.

If you have iPhone use the downtime setting to block the apps that keep up on your phone in the evening and through the night. Make sure you unblock apps such as your phone app and texting app and FaceTime, things like that.