smartphone addiction

With the average day filled with endless smartphone scrolling and binge-watching, how often do we pause to reflect on the deeper longing behind our screen time? Join Jonathan to explore the complex relationship between modern entertainment and our spiritual well-being. 

Jonathan shares the balance between enjoying life's pleasures and not letting them overshadow our primary purpose: to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Inspired by insights from the digital age and the wisdom of scripture, this reflection confronts the challenges of navigating a world designed to capture our attention, discussing the impact of entertainment on our spiritual journey.

Listen now to receive Biblical insight on how to live intentionally in a distraction-filled world, finding joy and purpose in God's presence above all else.

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The average smartphone user unlocks their phone about 150 times a day. Staying in touch, taking photos, getting directions, watching videos, reading the news — there are many reasons we rely on our smartphones so much. But they can also become a distraction. In today’s episode, we explore the double-edged sword that is the smartphone, a tool that can improve our lives but also cause a reliance bordering on addiction — and how this impacts our mood, sleep, interpersonal interactions, ability to learn and more.

Hosts: Zach Moore, John Dabkowski (interviewer)

Expert: Dr. Kenneth Podell, Neuropsychologist

Notable topics covered:

• Nomophobia, the fear of being without your smartphone 
• The way excessive screen time leads to smartphone addiction 
• How reading on your phone is different from reading from a book 
• Whether the blue light emitted from our smartphones affects our sleep 
• When smartphones affect how we interact with other people 
• It’s not all doom and gloom — the benefits of smartphones 
• Dr. Podell’s tips for forming a healthier relationship with your smartphone  

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What was the first thing you did this morning when you opened your eyes? Perhaps even before you got out of bed? A growing body of research says that you, like many others, grabbed and checked your smartphone. Have you ever spent time thinking about what your smartphone might be doing to you, your brain, and relationships? Stay tuned for some interesting insights from four boots on the ground youth workers about what they see smartphones doing to their students, along with some honest confessions about what those same phones are doing to them. . . on this episode of youth culture matters.

Which apps are your weakness? Instagram, WhatsApp, dating apps? ALL of them? If you've ever lost precious time to your smartphone that could been spent doing something better, or even doing nothing at all, then this episode's for you.

We talk to cyberpyschology expert, Daria Kuss, about smartphone addiction. We discuss what happens to our brains when we're on our smartphones, why too much time on them can become a problem and how we can change our habits and relationship with our phones (hopefully) for good!

In a bid to break their own bad phone habits, Gwen takes on some of Daria's top tips and Kate tries out Catherine Price's 3-day Phone Break-Up Challenge and reports back with a bevy of handy tricks.

If you're interested in finding out more about Daria, she has written the following books:

The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology (2019): https://global.oup.com/weacademic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-cyberpsychology-9780198812746?cc=gb&lang=en&

Internet addiction - Advances in psychotherapy (2019): https://us.hogrefe.com/shop/internet-addiction-76323.html

You are invited to contact her with any questions related to smartphone addiction at daria.kuss@ntu.ac.uk

Catherine Price's 3-day Phone Break-Up Challenge: https://www.screenlifebalance.com/courses/3-day-phone-breakup-challenge?mc_cid=e537ecc888&mc_eid=837a6b573a

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Kai Tang is the co-founder of light phone. Light phone is as a response to the exhaustive levels of noise and distraction we all encounter on a daily basis from our smart phones. The endless feeds of instagram, facebook, email and twitter leave us feeling drained, lost and and confused.

in this interview, we talk about the bigger picture around smartphone addiction and how we can help ourselves through the process. Just because technology isn't slowing down, doesn't mean we should never slow down.

https://www.thelightphone.com

Whether you find yourself out in public, or in the privacy of your own home, chances are that when you are in the presence of others, many of them have their eyes focused on their smartphone screens. Our lives are so focused on our phones that we are seeing the breakdown of relationships, attention spans, and critical thinking. What would happen if we locked our phones away for an entire week? College professor Donna Freitas recently conducted an experiment where she had her students untether for seven days. Join us for a lively and eye-opening conversation with Donna about what she and her students learned about our dependence on smartphones and what happens when we shut down, on this episode of Youth Culture Matters.

Find full notes here: https://cpyu.org/resource/episode-98-no-phones-for-a-week-with-donna-freitas/

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