HOW TO OVERCOME SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION?

HOW TO OVERCOME SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION?

– I would suggest that when planning your daily events, you highlightTime for both morning and evening prayers (let's say 20 minutes in the morning, 20 minutes in the evening, including reading or listening to the Holy Scriptures), and (we live in this world, it's very small, and there are many of us, "I want to know everything, I want to hear what I don't know yet") half an hour to 45 minutes of virtual contacts. Well, how to avoid dependence on social networks...

I have an answer to this, although perhaps not everyone will find it convincing enough. Dear friends, let's not forget how beautiful this world is.

Look - we are surrounded by nature: "I hear the trills of a nightingale, this is my Motherland." "These Russian villages," said F.I. Tyutchev, "are the native land of long-suffering." "The golden grove spoke with the cheerful language of birch trees, and the cranes, sadly flying by, no longer regret anything."

There's a wonderful kind of dependence on fresh air, on the blue sky, on Mother Earth, which still breathes warmth and bears the fruits of the earth for us. Dependence on one's own solitude, when, sitting on the yellowed grass, yesterday's turf, you watch the bends of the river, its gentle flow, hear Kashtanka barking and yapping somewhere beyond the river...

Honestly, dear friends, you won't be offended by a priest who, after "cutting off" the power to your computers, drives you out into the fresh air with a broom, so that we all remember the beautiful saying of our youth: "Sun, air, and water are our best friends."

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov