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This is what happens if you have the habit of having your mobile on the bedside table
Psychology
How and how much you sleep at night will make you have a better or worse day, which is why experts advise sleeping away from your mobile phone
You just have to look up from your own phone when we are on the bus or subway to realize that the rest of the passengers are also looking down at their respective mobile devices. From time to time someone is seen dozing or reading a book, but you will agree that, as long as the trip lasts, the fingers and eyes always end up riveted on this device.
The need to be permanently connected is something that has been aggravated by the crisis caused by Covid-19. Telecommuting, video conferencing, online classes … mobile phones and electronic devices govern our day to day. The problem comes, as Gabriela Paoli, psychologist and author of the book «Digital health: keys to a
healthy use of technology »when that hyperconnection brings with it behavior disorders and problems that generate anxiety, stress and nervousness.
But this is even more serious if when we go to sleep we leave the phone near us. Ok, if we have the alarm set it makes no sense to leave it in another room in the house because surely we would not hear it, but the experts do advise that this device be away from our bed to avoid the attempt to catch it If we wake up at night
“It is risky sleeping near the mobile since if we wake up during the night, we will surely succumb to connecting, and there we will lose hours of sleep that will bring us negative consequences the next day, “says the sleep expert. What are those problems? The most frequent are fatigue, lack of concentration, irritability, listlessness … Apparently, how and how much you sleep at night will make you have a better or worse day.
Where to leave the phone at night
There are many who are not calm if the mobile is not one more “extension” of the body. Even sleeping, we have to keep it close because, if it is not within reach, it produces a feeling of unease and we feel the need to run to look for it.
Since leaving it on the table is not a good option, Gabriela Paoli recommends the following: «First, you have to turn off the Wi-Fi, and secondly put the mobile in airplane mode and leave it in another room. You have to go back to old healthy habits the usual: the alarm clock, a good book, or listening to a radio program or music before going to sleep. This way we will have a much better chance of not falling into the temptation to connect during the night and that it robs us of hours of rest ».
To “detoxify” your mobile
If you think you have a “vice” on your mobile phone, Gabriela Paoli says that this is already a big step: “To fight against something we must first know what it is, so the first step is be aware that we are falling into this vice and that it can affect our productivity and even our health ”.
According to the psychologist, it can create anxiety and nervousness in more extreme cases since “feeling that we can miss something can cause a lot of discomfort in certain people.”
According to the latest report from the Digital Society in Spain, 38% of the population already spends the same amount of time connected to the mobile phone as interacting directly with people. And it is that, recently, in 2018 the Spanish Ministry of Health included the technology addiction in the National Addiction Plan.