This addiction is about to become an epidemic. How do healthy, good people withstand it and get along with alluring electronic media?
First of all, set time limits for yourself, Say two hours a day. Turn the computer off, get up and go for a walk. Go do some work at home, around the house, or go to a paying job for 40 to 60 hours a week.
Love God, the self, pets, others, and projects. Where there is love, there is a tincture of reasonableness, of moderation. There is nothing like moderating psychology to temper addictive tendencies and practices.
Pray. Talking to God, alleviates our desire and urge to submit to temptation and overindulge.
Work in your garden for 30 minutes a day. There is nothing like interaction with the organic and biological in a natural setting to dispel the hold that electronic media holds over the robots glue to the screen.
Self-actualize actively and deeply. This rich mental and spiritual lifestyle forces one to be a Renaissance man, and that undertaking is so eclectic, wide-reaching and broad-minded that the strong will propelling the doer forward will not tolerate the stale, boring, surrendered state of mind implicit in sub-existing as an electronic attachment to the computer.
Remember that electronic addiction, like any other addiction is an illusory substitute for a real, happy, healthy, flesh-and-blood self that is getting it done . Live a full life and settle for no mediocre, dissatisfying, empty substitutes.
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