Phone Within 1 Hour of Waking Up
Nowadays, people are glued to their smartphones. Most of them excuse themselves by saying it is more productive and improves their quality of life. But it also has a major source of stress and distraction.
No one can deny the amazing benefits of a smartphone, but the problem lies when people can’t resist smartphones.
A recent study showed that about 80% of smartphone users check their phones within 15 minutes of waking up each morning.
These are not good signs. Smartphones were invented to become a good servant, but it became a bad master.
Here are four reasons why you shouldn’t check your phone within an hour of waking up -
1. Increased Stress and Anxiety:
As a child, you were always instructed that you should start your day calmly without any tension or stress. But when we wake up and instantly check our phone, your screen is filled with notifications of messages, emails, to-dos, etc.
All of these often creates a feeling of anxiety and stress. Instead of giving your body and mind the setting to start your day calmly, external stimuli are pulling your attention.
This feeling of overwhelmingness is a major source of depression on people in their 20s, and both men and women suffer from it.
So, if you start your day and immediately check your phone, you will experience increased stress and anxiety than a normal day.
2. Your Time & Attention Are Hijacked:
People often say that they feel like a new person when they wake up. Now, if you wake up and check social media, emails, or messaging, your mind is hijacked.
Your mind is flooded with other people’s opinions, what they are doing their life. This pollutes your mind, instead of waking as a new self, you are still caught in the enviousness of the past and the rat race.
When you wake up, your mind should only focus on yourself, your goals. You should engage in things which you like.
In other words, your mind shouldn’t be filled with things forced due to what other people are doing in their lives.
When you wake up, you don’t want hundreds of people screaming and yelling their opinion at you. So, why would you let a device do that to your mind?
Aside from your attention, your time is also wasted. When you wake up and open social media before you know you on social media for 15 to 20 minutes.
Now you have to rush everything, you are late to work which anyone knows is very stressful. This is not how you wanna start your day.
3. You can’t focus on the rest of the day:
When you start your day distracted due to social media or anything else. You set a precedent for the rest of the day to be distracted by the same thing.
Studies show that you can’t go from distraction to intense focus with a snap of a finger. It takes a lot of time and practice.
In simpler terms, if you start the day distracted, then the rest of the day, you will be distracted by it, and your productivity will go down significantly.
So, if you want to focus on something, then starting your day with a smartphone will only result in you being glued to it for the rest of the day.
4. The Blue light emitting from the phone affects your daily cycle:
The blue light that your smartphone emits is not only bad for your vision, but it also affects your daily cycle.
According to a study, exposure to blue light can result in suppressed levels of melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone that controls your sleep cycle. So, if your body is running low on it, you will experience tiredness, insomnia, and even agitation throughout the day.
Exposure to the blue light is good as it keeps you alert. But when you use it after sunset, your internal body clock is affected. You start to stay awake late in the night.
Another effect of the blue light is a problem in the circadian rhythm. This rhythm keeps your body tune to light, and dark is also affected.
That is, you feel tired during the night and energized when the sun rises. Blue light throws this rhythm out of your system.
As we can clearly see that checking the phone immediately when we wake up does more harm than it does good. So, it is wise to keep your phone at bay when you wake up.