🍁A recently published study has revealed a concerning fact that children who spend more than 30 minutes on social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat show a clear decline in their ability to concentrate. According to a report by Greater Kashmir, this research proves that constant scrolling, notifications, and instant dopamine hits are weakening the brain's focusing mechanisms.

🍁As a result, children are not only falling behind in studies but are also becoming victims of serious mental issues like anxiety, depression, and social isolation in the long run.

🍁Parents are now worried, and experts are giving the same advice: limit screen time, initiate digital detox. But is this solution enough?

🍁The real question here is not how many hours a child uses the phone; the real question is why their mind is empty.

🍁When there is no deep, vibrant, indispensable purpose within the mind, it runs after every little shiny thing. Social media is just a symptom of that emptiness, not the cause.

✨Acharya Prashant says, "Whatever you bring into life should be so challenging, so necessary, so indispensable that everything old seems dull in comparison—only then will you be freed from the old, otherwise not. Superficial and artificial changes do not go very deep, nor do they go far.

✨Give yourself a big goal. But just giving a big goal is not enough; the penalty, cost, and punishment for not achieving the big goal should also be significant. Otherwise, the monkey inside us finds it easy—keep giving yourself big goals again and again, and never achieve them. It's a shameless monkey; it doesn't care. It will say, 'Yes, I set a goal again and failed again, no problem.'

✨The goal should be big, and the love for the goal should be so strong, the importance of the goal so well understood, that the very thought of not achieving it becomes terrifying.

🔸Source:  

https://acharyaprashant.org/en/articles/aadat-naheen-chhootegee-1\_6502968

https://m.greaterkashmir.com/article/over-30-minutes-of-instagram-snapchat-use-may-impair-childrens-attention-study/458040 

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