Is Your Phone Taking Over Your Quiet Time?

Technology helps us communicate, work, learn and stay connected. However, it can also quietly occupy almost every free moment we have.

Many of us reach for our phones without consciously deciding to do so.

One simple digital wellbeing habit is to create small technology-free periods during the day. You might avoid your phone during meals, leave it outside the bedroom or take a short walk without checking notifications.

The aim is not to reject technology.

It is to ensure that technology remains a useful tool rather than something that controls our attention.

Sometimes switching off the screen gives us an opportunity to reconnect with the world around us.