Screen Addiction Science: How to Stop Scrolling, Put Down Your Phone + Live Your BEST Life Instead (r/p)
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host and Wellness Force Media CEO, Josh Trent, shares the scientific and spiritual effects of television on the mind and body.
- What happens in the brain when you are controlled by technology?
- How to self-evaluate, if potentially you are being controlled.
- What to do from that inspired place of increased awareness.
- All the fun tools that I personally use to make sure that I'm happy enough and fulfilled in my Wellness Pentagon
- How to nourish your Wellness Pentagon.
Resources:
- The Symptoms and Risks of Television Addiction
- TV Addiction: Characteristics and Treatment
- Nomophobia
- NOMOPHOBIA: NO MObile PHone PhoBIA - PMC - NCBI
- Nomophobia: the irrational fear of being without a mobile phone
- What is nomophobia?
- How Viewers Grow Addicted To Television
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Aloha, it's Josh Trent. Welcome to Wellness and Wisdom. This is a very special solo cast every |
| 0:08.6 | Thursday. You and I get to spend some one-on-one, some quality time together exploring all the |
| 0:13.4 | things about some of the wisdom that we can actually use in this challenging world at times. |
| 0:19.0 | Now, whether you're in total joy or whether you're having a |
| 0:22.4 | hard time, this podcast is for you. There's something really interesting that we all have been |
| 0:28.2 | taught ever since we were wee little bitty kids since we were old enough to walk. And that was |
| 0:32.7 | do what you're told. And how do we learn how to do what we're told? In this solo cast, I'm going to talk |
| 0:40.3 | about the effects and the impact on our psyche of television and of screens and not just a |
| 0:47.4 | bathing of the problem, but a focus on the solution. If you yourself are dealing with maybe an addiction |
| 0:53.5 | to your phone or an addiction to your phone or an addiction to |
| 0:55.4 | laziness or an addiction to TV that is so enticing at the end of your long day, this podcast is for |
| 1:02.8 | you. We're going to talk about what happens in the brain when you are controlled by technology, |
| 1:08.1 | how to self-evaluate if potentially you are being controlled, what to do |
| 1:12.9 | from that inspired place of increased awareness. And then lastly, I'm just going to share with you |
| 1:17.1 | all the fun tools that I personally use to make sure that I'm happy enough and fulfilled |
| 1:20.7 | in my wellness pentagon so that I don't become a victim of my phone or of my television. |
| 1:26.2 | So the very first thing, let's begin. Oh, by the way, |
| 1:29.7 | if you're here on the solo cast for the very first time, this may or may not be the perfect |
| 1:34.2 | place for you to start. Check out all of our 500 episodes plus that we've done on the Wellness |
| 1:39.2 | and Wisdom podcast. And you'll know because it'll have a guest name instead of my name. Now, if you just want to |
| 1:45.0 | learn from me, you're in the perfect place. If you want to learn from us, you can go to joshtrent.com |
| 1:50.7 | forward slash m21. That'll give you a lot more context and honestly, a bunch of free stuff. I created a |
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