if there is something major mindfulness helped me understand that will be that our thoughts and emotions don’t necessarily define who we are but our actions absolutely and definitely do

Thoughts And Feelings 

Living in the here and now it’s nothing easy, and it’s a battle. You never get used to that battle, but you’re gonna be always becoming better and better at it.

Focus 

This is an outcome of trying meditation for several times, and learning about mindfulness

mindfulness

Mindfulness

Digital minimalism is when you declutter, organize and simplify your Digital expierience

What Is Digital Minimalism 

<ol><li> Minimize distraction and disruption </li><li>Build a healthy and mindful relationship with your Digital life </li><li>Get the most out of your digital devices </li></ol>

Goals Of Digital Minimalism

Note that every step I said I have tried before and is under one of the prior categories.

How Can You Minimalize Your Digital Life?

This one is very good for a start.Scroll through your apps, shortcuts and widgets and think about them, and ask your self one of the following questions, what value does this add to my life in general, is it really beneficial?, How long and how often do I use it?If the answer was not so much and you use it for too long and it doest add any thing useful to you or you use it too little so try to make harder to reach by either getting it away of your main homescreen or hiding it or putting a lock on it or even better delete it if you can

Declutter Your Home screen 

Social media is one of the most harmful and destructive things you could have in your mobile and will talke a long time to figure out what is right to be done, but generally you can start by first unfollowing less important accounts and geoyps, setting times for using it, and managing your time on them.Here's a list of the most important social media platforms and what to do with them.

Social Media Accounts 

<ul><li>Archive </li></ul>Scroll through your contacts and see which of them you don't use anymore , you are going to find plenty of them ( I found around 50)<ul><li>Mute </li></ul>Mute chats or groups that make a really big noise in your notification panel and aren't so important <ul><li>Custimize</li></ul>Make special notification sounds for the chats important to you.

Whatsapp

You could pretty much do the same plus you can cost

Messenger 

Tracking and controlling your screen time and app time usage help you be more mindful with the things you do digitally and the time you spend online

Screen Time Tracking 

Set app timersApp timers are available everywhere: android or iphone.even if you exceed the time limit it just makes you aware of 1the time you are spending in an application .

App Timers 

Here you have different approches:<ol><li> Turn off notification for the apps that distract you the most and set a time for yourself to check it out in your day that goes along for emails.</li><li> Go to the individual apps and limit notifications at certain times of the day.</li><li> Either or, the goal generally is limiting notifications because they are the cues if a bad habit </li></ol>

Notification Management 

Organising files is really reliefing and important, you should decide what to put where and put folders , sub folders and sub sub folders

Organize Your Files And Gallaries 

Google calender is a fantastic machine to do that.You can put reminders for the tasks you need to do and put tasks themselves, you can put events to decide the whole day and set routines and regular goals, you should definetly try it out

Adding Reminders Tasks, Events Somewhere 

Our digital life make up a big chunk of our life's and it is considered one of the greatest influences on our mind and body so we gotta be careful, learn more about how to have a healthy relationship with a mobile, lapto or an ipad and try some of the tricks above out and comment with what you think.

Conclusion 

This is a reflection of an expiwence I had today and 5tried couple of times before 

artsandculture

Society, Arts & Culture

Digital minimalism 

What I mean here by social connection is how you connect with society and enviroument around you.The Aspects here are hwhoyou deal with people? How is in your relatives circle? ( Relative here meaning people you know) how often do you connect with them? ( Call_chat_text_etc.)

What Is Social Connection 

Chatting with people or just saying hi, also having a brief smile will help.Also reviewing your contacts list and see who haven't you called in a while, this could be an aunt or an uncle or an old friend etc.

How Can You Be Socially Connected?

kindness is a skill to be learnt

Kindness

What is kindness ?kindness is a part of a good social connection.it makes you more content with how you deal with people and the quality of your social relationships

Kindness 

Acts of kindness are the kind things you do for people.They range from posting something positive on social media passing through helping a many in the street, lifting heavy thing with a friend or even a stranger or just complementing someone to participating helping out with a big project or solve a problem

Acts Of Kindness 

Kindness is like a boonaring, it always returns

Mindfulness

Digital minimalism

Social connection and kindness

Mohamed Emad