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Mindful Scrolling: Turning Your Feeds Into A Wellbeing Toolkit
Social media has long been considered a “double-edged sword.” It helps us feel connected yet makes us fear missing out. It can boost our confidence, whilst making us feel jealous of others. It encourages creativity but can lead us to doubt whether we’re good enough. Whether it’s primarily good or bad is uncertain, but what’s known for sure is … we’re addicted.
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up and the last thing you do when you go to bed? Is it reaching for your phone and scrolling through your social media feeds with a blank mind and eyes fixed on the screen?
That’s the answer for many people. Research by Globel Webindex has shown that social media users spend an average of 2 hours and 24 minutes a day networking across an average of 8 platforms. And now that we’re spending more time on our own, we’re doing even more scrolling. It’s taking over a huge chunk of our lives.
But let’s not forget who’s in control; we’re the ones holding the device and doing the scrolling, and so the power is literally in our hands.
If we stop mindlessly scrolling through feeds that drain our energy and start making our use more conscious, we can use social media in a way that serves, nourishes, and benefits us.
