Digital Detox

Do you sleep with your smartphone or tablet __________ your bedside and check it, or your email, the moment you wake up? And did you know that constant use of email or social media can be damaging to one’s health?

This problem has recently been recognised as Internet addiction __________, and when frequent internet users turn off their devices, they undergo symptoms similar to those experienced by drug users.

But don’t worry; there are now plenty of options for dealing with digital __________.

You can choose from weekend detox courses in the countryside to spending time on remote farms in the Philippines, depending __________ your preferences and the gravity of your addiction.

One such course takes place in a private house in Wales and its primary aim is to teach the guests how to fill their time with things other than social media and surfing the internet. Guests begin the course by __________ over their phones in an opening ceremony.

One of the participants claims that the camp taught her how to re-connect with people again. Use of phones, computers and Wi-Fi are strictly __________ during the course, and usually extra precautions are taken to spare the guests the temptation.

That includes no televisions or landline phones on the __________. Organisers in British Columbia take it even more seriously, for all servers are disconnected, the television antenna is removed and even satellite signals are blocked.

According to them, solitude or connecting with yourself, and nature, is becoming harder to __________ and, as such, can be considered a luxury.

The most frequent reason why we are glued to our digital devices is work. For that, there is a course __________ for whole group of colleagues which helps them to disconnect from their devices and reconnect with each other.

Not only can you not use any of the __________, but also one of the rules is that there is no talking about work whatsoever.