Digital Health Quest

Balance....it is essential to the lives of successful individuals. Yes, there are successful individuals in the business community who have sacrificed family, relationships, and a social life, but the success I speak upon is the success that also provides peace. The peace that all of your worlds are as evenly as possible receiving your time, commitment and attention. That your juggling act of job, home, social, and mental health are at peace.
With the influx of technology, it has created for many a disruption of peace. The ability to have technology enhance and not hinder peace in your life is essential. For me that means at times turning off from technology. I enjoy social media and interacting with others. But in order to maintain peace, I have to shut it down. That means remaining off social media for weeks at a time. Minimal contact with others via email and text. Focusing more on my daily relationships with my husband, my children, and the people I interact with at school.
Both students and teachers should adopt regular intervals of shutting down technology and interacting with the "real world". It can be hours, days or like in my case weeks. But regularly shutting of the internet and actively reconnecting to your intranet of family, friends, and surrounds is essential to maintaining balance and peace.
Here is a great resource about learning to unplug and also address internet addiction. http://www.helpguide.org/articles/addiction/internet-and-computer-addiction.htm