Zen is a type of Buddhism that focuses on awareness through the practice of meditation

Zen mode, digital wellbeing, digital wellness or whatever name you give it has been in trend for sometime, thanks to social media taking control of our lives ever since someone ate a bat. The opening line of the book Hooked says, “Seventy-nine percent of smartphone owners check their devices within fifteen minutes of waking up”. This number has long been increased in this past years where all are schedules are restricted to this six inch screen.

Oxytocin is known as the ‘love hormone’. And it seems, the love hormone also rises during…tweeting! In one experiment, after just ten minutes of being on Twitter, **oxytocin levels rose as much as 13%.** Same goes for our dear friend Dopamine! That's why social detox is so hard. Frankly this is not something for me.

As of now at around 10:30 PM, my screen time is near about 7hrs with about 129 unlocks and 795 notifications to be precise. Had I done so many crunches, my life would have been much better.

Comes digital wellbeing and self care apps to the rescue. One interesting hack which I heard on Clubhouse to cutting down own screen time was to change the name and positioning of apps weekly to prevent from first instinct of tapping on it. Clearly, social apps seems to be taking over the lives of many people.

But one thing always makes me wonder that for the majority of people the incentive for practicing digital detox is saving up on time but is that a real incentive for one, specially in times like these where one's life is so connected through internet? If not, one can never stick to such restrictions and plans. In that case how would you incentivise to follow such restrictions ?