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Hello and welcome to another DailyJim it is Tuesday May 31st 2022 I'm back, I almost forgot ah today I want to talk about how.
Kind of our phones and the internet they really be wreaking havoc on her body and her hands and her our hearts as well. Um they're really just impacting. So I was talking with a friend today and we talked for quite a while on the phone, and I noticed as we were talking to the phone the screen was on and while I was holding the phone my hands were getting, my fingers were getting pretty warm, I was outside but I didn't think it was from the heat outside. I thought it had more to do with the fact that the battery was getting hot and I think I've noticed this over the past couple of days, sometimes I'd be using the phone when the battery was charging and the screen would get hot. My fingers feel a bit kind of like almost burned in a way, not severely, but you know, kind of a little bit numb or a little sensitive ironic those are opposites, but I'm curious have has that happened to you before? I imagine it can't be the only one who's had something like this happen and then I thought, okay, you know, how much have I been using a phone over the last two years during the pandemic?
Probably more than the computer, but just even talking about that, how many people have been using a computer so much over the pandemic, not just for work but for socializing, zoom call or communicating with somebody on facebook or twitter or some of these other platforms. Um So how much have we been interacting with these devices and what are the impacts of interacting with these devices so much? So I think about myself and I go oh gosh you know I was out and I saw that neighbors had some chairs that were set outside. Some like nice kind of outdoor chairs and a big sign on it, you know, take for free. And so this is amazing. These are beautiful chairs and so um picks him up with the car and we're driving with the car and then one didn't fit. So I said I just carry it home, it's not that far. And I tried to carry and I go oh my gosh I'm so out of shape. I thought of course because what I've been doing over the last couple of years, I've spent so much time interacting on the phone, that I haven't been using a lot of my muscles and, I wonder, you know. What the longer term impacts are going to be on us. Um Not just from for example like the hands, how much are we holding a small phone or typing on a phone? And what is that doing to? Are the muscles in our hands and the bones and the hands and things like this? Our eyes, how much time are we spending looking at a screen from a certain distance and not just looking but reading. So a lot of times when we read on the screen our eyes are darting back and forth to see the new information that's coming on, we don't know where it's coming from. So so much unpredictability. Um So how does that affect our focusing ability? How does that affect the muscles in our forehead and the muscles kind of in our jaw? Because maybe we're clenching the jaw, there's more tension because we don't know what's coming, how does this affect?
No, I wouldn't say hearing so much, but it depends if you're wearing headphones, I don't listen to too much music or podcasts but listening with headphones and can really affect our hearing.
But then there's the other aspects. So those are some of the man, I gotta figure out this chime keeps going off. Um There are other aspects of this where it's not just the kind of the muscles but also the emotional side, you know if we're constantly reading things on the internet that are making us feel anxious and afraid and scared and terrified and angry and nervous and said sad and so many emotions.
How how how many more emotions have we been receiving by interacting with that many more people passively, then we would in a normal day when we're just interacting with many fewer.
And on top of that, one thing that came up in the call was just this idea about we're spending so much time reading and for some of us, you know, for many of us in general reading and writing, it just tire us out. But I remember some friends of mine who have dyslexia and for them reading can really tire them out. So just reflecting a little bit more on how much time and energy and frankly the energy expenditure that I've done interacting with the phone. And yes, they're the short term impacts. But I wonder what are the long term impacts of trying to squeeze my body to look at a small screen? Does that close me down more? Does my posture become more closed versus kind of opening up and looking at a broad horizon? So just little things like this and kind of just a reflection today to pause and remember that we have bodies and that the human body wasn't made to look at a phone. We try to make phones work so we can look at them to adapt to the human body, but they don't adapt super well. So just on that note, I would like to step away from the phone and go to sleep. So I will talk to you all soon. Take care.
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