You have probably heard of the technique "social media detox", where you take time off social media and put your focus into living in the now. This is designed to help people live in the moment of life rather than living online. For some people, this technique might work, and when you get the social media back you will have taught yourself that you can survive without it, so you spend less time on social media. For others though, a social media detox might not work and when you get the social media back, you will fall back into your old habits because as they say, "old habits die hard". For the people who a social media detox works for you, that is great, and for those that this technique doesn't work for them, we are here to teach you a different method of cleansing social media.
As human beings, we sometimes become addicted to things that aren't always the healthiest for us. One of the three main reasons we become addicted to something is peer pressure. On social media there are a lot of negative peers that can make us feel pressured to look like a certain way, act a certain way, post certain things, ect... This form of peer pressure is all over social media and it can help fuel the fire in the social media addiction.
Every social media app can be addicting because the creators of the app thrive on interactions and use of the app, so they set it up to be addicting to the consumers. This cycle can be broken though, with time and a few steps to cleanse your social medias out of the negative peer pressures. When you cleanse something out, you are cleansing the negatives and messy parts of it. You are cleansing the parts that are cloudy and crowding your positive headspace. Today we are going to teach you how to cleanse your social media.
We are going to give you a few options of cleansing methods. How well each option works will depend on the person and how you apply it. Do the ones you think will work the best for you FIRST. If what you try is not enough, you can always come back and try another option or you can try to apply it differently. Healing and change comes in different forms and every person is unique, so don't feel down if your original tries, don't work out.
CLEANSING OUT YOUR SOCIAL MEIDAS:
Unfollow toxic people: When you remove the toxic people, the peer pressures start to lift off you. This can be people you know in real life or people you don't know in real life. Toxic people might be someone who makes you feel bad about yourself or your life. Someone who is never supportive of you. It might be someone who you had a past relationship with and you need to move on because seeing them is becoming toxic for you. Or maybe someone who makes you feel like you must post certain ways. You know who is toxic for YOU, so you can make the decision on who you unfollow.
Remove past content that is damaging to your well-being: We all make mistakes and regret certain things. While you can't erase the past, seeing a post or a picture of regrets and mistakes can make you hold onto those negative feelings and make you feel worse about them. The past can't be changed so it is best to let it go and remove those reminders off your social media. When these negative reminders and mistakes are out of sight, they will soon be out of mind causing you to feel like a weight has been lifted off you. The act of cleaning out the past mistakes will be proof to you that you can live in the moment and post what you want, and mistakes will be made but that doesn't mean it has to harm your life forever.
Update your profile or your bio to represent you: When you clean a room, you will first put everything away or remove the trash from it. Once all the trash it removed and everything is put away, you will spray it all down and do one of the most important parts: the deep cleanse. Once you remove the negatives from your social media, you need to do the last steps of the deep cleanse, you need to polish and get in the cracks of it all with the positives. Updating your profile picture is the first step in that deep cleansing. When you update your profile to represent the TRUE YOU, not someone who you were pretending to be or someone you wish to be, you can start to feel better doing things on social media that are true to you and not what you feel peer pressured to do. Less peer pressure=less addicting and less time spent on social media.
Follow like-minded people: Finding like-minded people to follow can make social media feel like pressured. Like-minded people won't make you feel like you need to be a different person that who you truly are. These people can make social media a more positive place for you, and it can lessen the peer pressure that comes alone with social media apps. You know your own mind so you know who you should follow. If you are struggling to find people, start with one person (you can search them up on the app or look at hashtags you are interested in) and look at who they follow. See if any of those are like-minded people that they follow and if they are follow them.
Follow motivating people: This is the last main step in the deep cleansing section. Following motivating people can help to remind you that you need to get off social media, that life is going to be alright so you there is no need to try to escape on social media, ect... These might be pages that are only motivating or inspirational quotes, or they might be someone who dedicated their social media page to giving followers pep-talks or motivational speeches.
We hope that this cleansing out your social media will be beneficial for you and your life. If none of these steps seem to work for you or be enough, you can always make a new account and start fresh or do a social media detox along with a cleanse. Have a wonderful rest of your day.
DAILY REMINDER: Live in this moment, the now, the present. Don't dwell in the past or worry about the future.
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