Hey everyone! We’d love your help gathering stories and insights from you to help us better understand and improve the way we think about screen time and community well-being.

It’s crazy to consider that many people born (even before) 2009 might never have spent a full day of their lives without their computer, iPad or Screen. We’re curious – have you, or someone young in your life, ever gone 24 hours without screens?

We’re especially interested in hearing about:

• Why you/they chose to go screen-free
• What the experience felt like – rewarding? hard? unexpected?
• Any takeaways or surprises that came up along the way!

Let’s share some thoughts and stories.

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I am offline unwillingly for 4 days now! I feel so disconnected, so left out. I would love to play my favourite video games or just mindlessly chat with friends. Now i cant do none of that cause mobile data is costly

I did it!! Although as it was my first , I did cheat a little. I decided to have a no-phone day. It felt strange not having a phone attached to me, but I quickly got used to it. During the evening, I turned off the internet and watched normal TV. It was absolutely dreadful. When I went to bed I took a digital watch with a light button so I could see what time it is. I might carry on doing this because when I woke up, I didn't start scrolling immediately like normal.

In the morning I did cheat and turned in my phone for 20m because I didn't want to lose my 600+ days Duolingo streak. Next time, I will do this on the computer. Speaking of computers, I was already logged on to WhatsApp so I did read some messages which REALLY helped alleviate the feeling of FOMO. Although this could be seen as cheating, my goal was to go phone free and tbh it helped relieve the need.

Mostly, it was enjoyable, I read on my e-reader for the first time in ages and it was lovely. I am glad I did it and will definitely do it again. Next time, I will go 100% internet free. One step at a time.

How did you do?

We have access to a state that activates automatically when one reaches beyond their believed limit while performing an intense physical exercise.

It's known as the runner's high but did you know you that you activate this exact state in lesser demanding situations?

You see, the people who have experienced it all report that it comes with physical goosebumps followed by a euphoric feeling, and a drastic reduction of the "pain" that they were experiencing during their physical activity.

It was proven that during that state hormones called Endorphins are released that causes that feeling and that lessening of pain, helping one go further beyond their limit.

This is where it gets interesting.

As many already know, a euphoric feeling followed with chills is what happens when one gets Frisson which basically comes from an exposure to a positive outside or internal stimulus like inspiring music, compliments, memories, movies, a loved one, time with friends, praying, praising God, meditation, receiving a confirmation, feeling motivated to strive, gratefulness and more.

The final piece to this puzzle is that because Frisson/Chills is reported to come with either a hot or cold temperature this proves that its tapping in none other than the hypothalamus part of the brain which is where the neurotransmitters known as Endorphins come from.

This subtle euphoric wave can be learned to be brought up on demand consciously, for long durations, and without the physical reaction of goosebumps. This then can become a skill that gives one the ability to activate their endorphins to numb their pain during any physical exercise and push themselves even further.

Other than the Runner's High and Chills from positive events/stimuli, this has also been experienced and documented as the Vibrational State before an Astral Projection, as Qi in Taoism / Martial Arts, as Prana in Hindu philosophy, during an ASMR session, Bioelectricity, Life force, Runner'sHigh, Euphoria, Ecstasy, Orgone, Rapture, Tension, Aura, Mana, Vayus, Nen, Intent, Tummo, Odic force, Pitī, Frisson, Ruah, Spiritual Energy, Secret Fire, The Tingles, on-demand quickening, Voluntary Piloerection, Aether, Spiritual Chills and many more to be discovered hopefully with your help.

Here are three written tutorials going more in-depth on how you can activate this whenever you please and to understand where it comes from.

With this information, you can then test it out and consciously activate this subtle energy during any intense workout, not just while running or jogging and see how it helps you feel less pain, motivate you, reduce stress and go further beyond your perceived limit.

P.S. Everyone feels its activation at certain points in their life, some brush it off while others notice that there is something much deeper going on. Those are exactly the people you can find on the subreddit community r/spiritualchills where they share experiences, knowledge and tips on it.

Luckily we have a "switch" inside our physical body to counteract stress. Even though it goes unnoticed and is unknowingly activated daily by most for other reasons.

You might have noticed it before, it's this extremely blissful subtle energy that's activated when experiencing Frisson, or as the Runner's High, as the Vibrational State before an Astral Projection, as Qi in Taoism / Martial Arts, as Prana in Hindu philosophy, during an ASMR session and as Chills from positive events/stimuli.

In ancient Chinese culture and ancient Indian culture, they observed that when activated, this can cause a few physical reactions like controlling your temperature, dilating your pupils, controlling your heartbeat, perspiration, smiling, teary eyes, flooding yourself with euphoria or activating in certain parts of your body and of course goosebumps.

This soothing subtle energy can be learned to be activated as you please without any outside stimuli, with just the simple intention of experiencing it. So imagine how helpful it can be when faced with unwanted stress/anxiety. You can even feel it over your whole body, flooding your being with its natural ecstasy and master it to the point of controlling its duration.

In the eastern part of the world they discovered that it can be made to flow through the body via channels coined as Meridians or Nadis that encompass the entire human body.

It has been documented in various cultures and has been coined under many names like Bioelectricity, Life force, Prana, Qi, Runner'sHigh, Euphoria, ASMR, Ecstasy, Orgone, Rapture, Tension, Aura, Mana, Vayus, Nen, Intent, Tummo, Odic force, Pitī, Frisson, Ruah, Spiritual Energy, Secret Fire, The Tingles, on-demand quickening, Voluntary Piloerection, Aether, Chills, Spiritual Chills and many more to be discovered hopefully with your help.

Now for some of you that say that stress is good should consider that there are two types of stress and oxidative stress has been linked to several neurological diseases (i.e., Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis, depression, and memory loss).

If you are interested in learning how to active this whenever you please, here are three written tutorials going more in-depth on how you can control this subtle energy and to understand where it comes from.

P.S. Everyone feels its activation at certain points in their life, some brush it off while others notice that there is something much deeper going on. Those are exactly the people you can find on the subreddit community r/spiritualchills where they share experiences, knowledge and tips on it.

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built this screen time calculator to see how much time you'll spend on your devices in your lifetime. Plus how much time you can save if you make the right habit changes

it's so nuts that YEARS of our life can get lost to this stuff (and already has)

hope it helps someone

https://www.randymginsburg.com/screen-time-calculator/

I made it with two rules.

1. Strict mode by default
2. As simple as possible

Hope you can concentrate & sleep well using it

If you're interested, try it and leave feedback.

Thank you!

https://apps.apple.com/app/lockchest/id6477859494

Have you ever gotten chills from good stimuli?

That ability can be learned to be activated with just the elated feeling, whenever you want, without any stimuli.

That's not why I claim that it is a secret being hidden from us, though.

The ability to activate this is your golden ticket, which is being swept under the rug as something unconscious and unimportant. With info on this purposely being spread as an ability available only to a few; however, it is one of the only things that every single human can access, regardless of their physical abilities or conditions.

Why is information on this being manipulated? Let's see.

Ever felt overwhelmed by stress or anxiety? This ability is a switch to manually induce the release of positive hormones.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-12135590

Just imagine how being able to use it when feeling overwhelmed could benefit you.

Don't believe me? In the eastern part of the world, Tibetan Monks know about this ability and use it differently. You can find more information on this in this Harvard "Tummo" experiment.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/04/meditation-changes-temperatures/

"During meditation, the monk's body produces enough heat to dry cold, wet sheets put over his shoulders in a frigid room."

Since our internal body temperature is regulated by the hypothalamus, the same part of our brain that deals with positive hormone release, this proves that this ability can be used to consciously activate your positive hormones.

Ever wanted to travel virtually in an instant? People who astral project or have out-of-body experiences use this ability to trigger the "Vibrational state" right before the "take off."

https://en.iipc.org/vibrational-state/

These examples are just the tip of the iceberg of what you can use this ability for. In fear that my post won't be read, I won't write a book here about all the incredible things that we can do by being able to consciously activate this ability.

For now just understand that many different cultures observed this occurrence thousands of years before the Western new world became aware of it, and their discoveries did not stop at simply recognizing it as a physical response to music.

Eventually, you can learn how to bring up this wave of elated energy without the physical reaction of goosebumps, feel it throughout your body, and increase its duration, just like many others have succeeded in doing.

This ablity has been researched and documented under many names, by different people and cultures such as Bioelectricity, Life force, Prana, Chi, Qi, Runner's High, Euphoria, ASMR, Ecstasy, Orgone, Rapture, Tension, Aura, Mana, Vayus, Nen, Intent, Tummo, Odic force, Kriyas, Pitī, Frisson, Ruah, Spiritual Energy, Secret Fire, The Tingles, on-demand quickening, Voluntary Piloerection, Aether, Chills, Spiritual Chills and many more to be discovered hopefully with your help.

If you're interested, here are three written tutorials with concise descriptions on how to control this for your own benefit.

If not then I've put enough information for you to research this topic, develop this ability and bring in new techniques to the world.

P.S. Everyone feels it at certain points in their life, some brush it off while others notice that there is something much deeper going on. Those are exactly the people you can find on the subreddit community r/Spiritualchills  where they share experiences, knowledge and tips on it.

I guess I spend about one hour per day with replying to messages. I don't want to spend so much time on my phone but at the same time I don't want to be inpolite by not replying to messages or loose contact to friends.

I would love to condition my friends to call me instead of sending messages all the time.

Is there any advice how to avoid sening messages all the time, but still get invited to the next party?

You have the most powerful transmitter and receiver of frequency or vibration in the universe at your control and at your command.

How amazing. Do you use it. Do you even know you have the power?

You are a powerful being, you have all the power and all the energy to make all your dreams come through.

The key is just getting your vibration correct. How?

When you emit a frequency (through your thoughts, states of mind, point of views or emotions), the exact same frequency is drawn to you. The entire universe works together to mimic that frequency and bring it towards you in events, situations or people.

More importantly, bringing up your Spiritual Energy while doing that allows your frequency to travel virtually in three dimensions all throughout the universe, in all directions simultaneously with the same intensity and this can even be picked up all over the globe by other people.

Spiritual Energy, just like Qi, Prana, Vayus, Piti, Odic Force, Tension, Aura, Mana, Orgone, BioElectric, Euphoria, Ecstasy, Nen, Secret Fire, Aether, Rûah, Intent and more is another word to define the Vital Energy/Life Force that you and every other living thing has.

This Spiritual Energy can be most easily felt within us when experiencing Frisson, or as the Runner's High, as the Vibrational State before an Astral Projection, as Qi in Taoism / Martial Arts, as Prana in Hindu philosophy, during an ASMR session and felt within us as Chills from positive events/stimuli.

This energy has been researched and documented under many names, by different people and cultures such as Bioelectricity, Life force, Prana, Chi, Qi, Runner's High, Euphoria, ASMR, Ecstasy, Orgone, Rapture, Tension, Aura, Mana, Vayus, Nen, Intent, Tummo, Odic force, Kriyas, Pitī, Frisson, Ruah, Spiritual Energy, Secret Fire, The Tingles, on-demand quickening, Voluntary Piloerection, Aether, Chills, Spiritual Chills and many more to be discovered hopefully with your help.

Here are three written tutorials going more in-depth on how to control this energy and on the technique to use your spiritual energy to consciously send out something you want to attract back in your life.

P.S. Everyone feels it at certain points in their life, some brush it off while others notice that there is something much deeper going on. Those are exactly the people you can find on the subreddit community r/Spiritualchills  where they share experiences, knowledge and tips on it.

Put this together as a side project over the weekend, and figured this could help a bunch of people in here.

https://digitaldetoxtools.com/

It's a directory of different digital detox tools -- dumbphones, flip phones, distraction blocker apps, distraction blocker devices (like brick & unpluq), etc. I plan to continuously update this as new products & tech come to market, so feel free to shoot me a message if there is anything you'd like to see added.

I've been really focused on improving my digital wellness lately, and have had some good success using a combination of Brick, Opal, Blank Spaces, removing all notifications, turning my phone on grayscale, having friends & significant others change my password etc.

It's tough as a self-employed person running a content agency, but I've been making good strides. Been helping my girlfriend as well and her screen time is down 24% in the last month, freeing up over ~30 hours more of her time to focus on more productive and fulfilling things.

It's not easy but it's possible!

Let me know what you think :)

Do you know just how powerful you are?

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Even though child hood traumas, events that happened or even words that were said a long time ago, hurt and carry through into our adulthood robbing us of our aliveness and spontaneity, become trapped within the body and its energy field, causing tension, stress and possibly disease.

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There's a healthy, natural process that allows you to release this stored, suppressed or blocked energy to resolve issues, become more alive and regain full control of your conscious awareness, to receive the positive energy from the universe that is infinitely there.

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To truly understand how you can start this process, here's an interesting point of view from past cultures.

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According to martial arts/traditional Chinese medicine we have a Vital Energy/Life force that is supposed to develop into three forms, the second one being what they call "Qi" and the third one is where it becomes your conscious awareness/attention/intention, what they call "Shen".

Bruce lee demonstrating his activation of Qi during a battle in the Netflix series

This Vital Energy/Life force in its raw stage gets refined in you until it transforms into an etheric vapor.

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At this point you can experience it as the Runner's High during an intense exercise, or as Frisson while being "moved" , or as the Vibrational State before an Astral Projection, or as Qi in Taoism and in Martial Arts, or as Prana in Hindu philosophy or during an ASMR session and as Chills/Goosebumps when being deeply moved.

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If you have successfully released all your blocked energy from past traumas and etc., this is something that you should be able to feel on-demand, all over your body or have it originate wherever you want and for hours.

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If not, be forced to only have it fizzle during encounters with positive internal/external sources such as listening to a song you really like, thinking about a lover, watching a moving movie scene, striving, feeling thankful, praising God, praying, etc.

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This blissful sensation has been researched and documented under many names like Bioelectricity, Life force, Prana, Chi, Qi, Runner's High, Euphoria, ASMR, Ecstasy, Orgone, Rapture, Tension, Aura, Mana, Vayus, Nen, Intent, Tummo, Odic force, Kriyas, Pitī, Frisson, Ruah, Spiritual Energy, Secret Fire, The Tingles, on-demand quickening, Voluntary Piloerection, Aether, Chills, Spiritual Chills and many more to be discovered hopefully with your help.

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Finally, here are three written tutorials to help you specifically learn how to release blocked energy from you and take control of your Vital energy/Life force for its many possibilities.

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P.S. Everyone feels it at certain points in their life, some brush it off while others notice that there is something much deeper going on. Those are exactly the people you can find on r/spiritualchills where they share experiences, knowledge and tips on it.