{"id":3008,"date":"2012-03-15T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/thoughts-from-campus-ministry-disconnecting\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:40:06","slug":"thoughts-from-campus-ministry-disconnecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/thoughts-from-campus-ministry-disconnecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from Campus Ministry &#8211; Disconnecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing how the use of technology has proliferated in our society in the last few years. If you do not yet own a smartphone, juggle profiles on various social media sites or send and receive hundreds of text messages a day, you many increasingly find yourself in the minority. Many see a worrying trend and some experts have already begun to sound the alarm about our society\u2019s addiction to technology.<\/p>\n<p>As the stress of midterms recedes into the background and spring break approaches, consider spending some time away from technology so that the mind and body can truly heal &#8212; especially if you find yourself mindlessly browsing the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Instead&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get some sleep to recover from long nights of studying or working.<\/li>\n<li>Limit daily internet activity to about 15-20 minutes in the morning and evening. This includes, checking e-mail, texting and browsing. You may even want to try going for a day or two with no internet use at all.<\/li>\n<li>Use the time gained by reducing technology use to read for leisure, go for a hike or walk, visit friends, meditate, volunteer, write a letter or simply do nothing.<\/li>\n<li>When engaging in the activities above, be sure to leave the smartphone behind.<\/li>\n<li>Get some more sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As our use of technology increases, the importance of disconnecting from time to time will increase as well. Our bodies, minds and spirits will be thankful for it.<\/p>\n<p>Peace and blessings.<\/p>\n<p>Cylon George, M.A.<br \/>\nCampus Chaplain<br \/>\nfacebook.com\/hvcccampusministry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:40:06 +0000 by\u00a0c.george<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It is amazing how the use of technology has proliferated in our society in the last few years. If&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}