Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 From author, Cindy Rand comes a book that working women will want to add to their must read list. The busy woman's guide to holistic health and wellness available on Amazon long before women across the globe were given a welcome voice to speak. They were busy consistently giving, creating, and nurturing from the bedroom to the boardroom. Now more than ever, today's busy woman is in need of solid instruction on how to balance the nuances of each day without losing her personal identity. In the midst of it, the busy woman's guide to holistic health and wellness highlights, simple it effective steps on how you can make changes to your surroundings to ignite your power. As a valued woman, equipped to care for yourself. Wellness is a journey. So order your copy of author, Cindy Rand's book, the busy woman's guide to holistic health and wellness and take the journey together available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon.
Cindy 00:00:54 Welcome to another segment of complete wellness with Cindy. So today we are going to talk about digital detox, but in the meantime, I've decided to kind of work at my computer today. All right, and I think I'm gonna get a little help from Alexa and let her tell us what our powerful quote of today is. Alexa, what is our powerful quote for today?
Alexa 00:01:41 Our power quote for today, a detox is your opportunity to give your body a break and allow your own self cleansing and self-healing processes to kick into gear by food matters. Welcome to another episode of complete wellness with Cindy.
Cindy 00:02:01 Thank you, Alexa. So, today that's what we are going to talk about. We're going to talk about detoxing. That's what we're going to talk about. A digital detox, basically that's our subject and hopefully you all can see it if you can't just let me know. But what is a digital detox? The digital detox is a period of time where you voluntarily refrain from like digital devices, things like cell phones, computers, tablets, social media. A lot of times people are really addicted. <laugh> do social media...and some of the reasons why they, you know, kind of obsessed over it is because of social comparisons, being upset or angry about something that somebody posted, cyber bullying, you know, the back and forth with that. The fear of missing out fear of being obligated to check in or to respond or to react, feelings of isolation.
I mean, they're just all types of reasons why, people basically, you know, are like addicted to having, cellular devices of some type of digital thing. I was thinking about as funny and, and this is, I, I don't think we have that up on the list about a calculator. I was thinking about, when my baby was younger and she, uh, started school, I think it was probably like second or third grade when they started to teach them how to use, how to do like math, you know, basic math, arithmetic, reading, blah, blah, blah. But anyway, it was getting a little advanced. So, every day she'd come home with a calculator and that take it from her and I'm like, oh my God, that's cheating. You know, what are you doing with the calculator? And so I took it from her, you know, I helped her with her homework and I had her to actually do it, you know, like manually, manually think of how to do the problems, you know, showed her how to, you know, count on her finger, count, sticks, whatever, but not this calculator.
So long story short the next day she goes to school. Apparently the teacher gives it back to her again. So she comes home. I'm like I told you, don't use this calculator. That's cheating. That is cheating. And she says, nah, she said, the teacher is giving us calculators. And when you took the first one, she gave me a second one. So I'm thinking, what on earth is going on? I said, listen, I said, I don't want you to have your first line of defense of how to add, subtract, or divide as a calculator. I'm thinking, you know, whenever you get older or the batteries die, how are you gonna know how to add, if you don't know how to do it manually before actually sticking it into some type of device. So, needless to say, when she would come home, I would have her to work.
It manually, you know, the teacher of course, you know, continue at that point in time. You know, introducing them to calculators. I think it's a scientific calculator. I can't quite remember, but, she continued to introduce them, you know, to that. But my daughter became very, you know, will equipped with arithmetic, with math, with the basics and the advances, because I had her to do it manually and use the digital device as like a backup, more so than the sole provision of how you learn it. And I think that's something that, you know, everybody should consider. Another thing here, as far as a benefit from taking, digital detox breaks is, and I, I think you could, you know, try to do it at least like, you know, two, three times a week, just take a break from it. You basically want to reduce the light effects, that blue light effect what a lot of people don't know.
And I think of this a lot because of the clients that we have, at our holistic body boutique, that blue light, uh, actually does some damage, you know, to your skin, like with, you know, premature aging and wrinkles and all of that. I think there was a Harvard study at some point that said that during the day, the blue light was actually beneficial. You know, as far as like setting up your mood, making you, you know, happy hormones, yada yada, yada, it was something that transmitted through the skin that actually helped people. However, on the flip side at night at night, it worked basically in the opposite direction. It did not work, you know, beneficially, the person, it actually, you know, deteriorated start to work towards, you know, the retina, you know, damaging all that. So, one of the benefits of taking a break would be, you know, to help your skin, to help your eyesight, reduce stress, like the tension in your neck.
A lot of times from, you know, just sitting there with those little devices, you know, constantly for hours upon hours at time, it reduces, anxiety calms your mind decreases the likelihood of becoming depressed. And I say that, cause it goes back to social media and the comparisons that a lot of times people do, comparing themselves down in comparison to some one with factious life. And they're looking at, you know, their current circumstance situation. It's like, you know, I want to be like this person. I wanna be like that person, but they don't realize a lot of times it's for show. So, that causes depression in some people. Then another thing, it would produce quality sleep. And I'll tell you a little bit more about that later.
And again, we talked about the tension in your neck and then allows you to have like it regain your focus, you know, instead of just constantly, depending on, that device. I mean, even when it comes down to like my day planner, I still use like an old fashioned day planner that I have to physically write it because I know there's, you know, scientific backing about the correlation between your memory and, physically writing something versus typing it. So I kind of have like a combination of two, like my day planner. That's a way for me that I'm able to not completely be reliant on my digital calendar. I also have an old fashioned write, you know, written calendar that I write in with my day planner.... another thing that is very helpful is regain focus, because if you're on social media all day long, you're gonna miss something, you know, you're going to look around and your day's gone, you've done nothing productive, but watch other people.
And one thing that's just kind of funny and I'm not really like a big television person, but I have often said, when it came down to many of the shows that would come on, for me, they're being paid to entertain me, but I'm not being paid to watch them. So again, it comes down to your own holistic health, mind, body spirit. You want to make sure that whatever activities you're engaging in on a regular basis or in increments that is, I would say that the significant parts of your day that you spend doing something, make sure that it's beneficial to you, you know, not necessarily, paying, but that's just, you know, my thought about it. But, I'll say that you just want to make sure that you're using your time wisely because you only get one day, one day at a time and you just need to make that day count.
A couple simple ways to give yourself a detox, a DIY detox. First of all, everything starts with the mind you want to decide to make a behavior change. Secondly, you want to stop placing electronic devices. I E your phone in your bed at night. Now that flips back to what I said about productive sleep. Now I'm a big energy person. So in, you know, my thought process and a couple other people that I know our thought processes is basically if you've got your phone in your bed, you're introducing those electric currents into your sleep or the time that you're supposed to be sleeping. So that's one thing then secondly, you know, you're disturbing the energy, the phone's buzzing, the phone's beeping all of these different things and you're rolling over and you're checking your phone and then you're rolling over and you're saying, oh, I can't sleep.
And you're checking your phone. So, you know, and this is funny, a friend of mine said a while back. It was so funny. It was hilarious. She said that, a lot of people are laying in the bed when they first wake up, checking their phones and they haven't even checked to see if they can walk yet. You know, you don't even know if you can walk yet, you roll over, you get your phone, you're on social media, you get checking your emails. And that is absolutely so true. You definitely want to make the most of every day, but you know, people make sure you can walk before you just roll over and start talking on your phone. <laugh> just make sure, another simple way to, give your sip a DIY detox, digital detox is to stop checking your email, stop playing video games, scrolling through social media.
Ok, we talked about that texting, and it's not a point of isolating yourself. You know, basically you're just taking, an hour a day a day and doing one or the other. Sometimes, you know, I'm so tired with my day to day, the phone's ringing the emails going off. I've got buzzers and notifications for everything, and I'm just tired. And sometimes I'll just turn my phone down. I even have a couple of friends, that'll silence their text messages and phones at night so that they can, you know, have a peaceful night's sleep. But, those are some simple ways, again, some simple ways to, uh, give your sympathy. I Y detox, you wanna decide to make a change and then stop placing your devices in your bed. When you go to sleep, put it on a manful piece or in your purse or your pocket, or on the side table, end table nightstand, whatever, but not in your bed.
Then secondly, you know, sometimes don't check and email every five minutes, stop playing videos, sometimes do something different. Stop scrolling through the social media, do something different, stop texting all day and using your smartphones and your tablets. And you're this. And you're that, all those electronic things just give yourself, you know, a couple of hours a day, of digital detox, even if it's on like a Sunday, you know, some people recognize the Sabbath. They want to just rest, let that be your day, for example, to rest from not checking the phone, like let's just save the morning. And I understand cuz like me as an entrepreneur sometimes, I'm very busy. I've got a lot of things going so different. People are coming at me. So one of the things that I do, I know like for a full day, I can't just not check, but I'll segregate a certain amount of time.
Let's just say like in the morning for me, you know, I'm not gonna check my emails until 10 o'clock when I'm people ready, you know, I'm up with the birds, but I'm not going to check my email until then. You might want to switch yours to do not disturb in the evenings. That's the way to get that digital detox done. So today's take away is to reduce your stress is to allow yourself to calm your mind and to not always be so anxious about checking social media, checking your emails, checking to see who's replied and who hasn't replied. I mean, you know, people live your life. Like I said, you only get one. Your time is precious and valuable and you deserve the best. And that's what I say all the time. Just make sure that you're doing what's best for you. And if what's best for you is to occasionally disconnect. Then let's just do that.
I hope you have a healthy, happy, holistically happy day, and I will see you next time.
