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Aisialdia
Holidays

Disconnect... to connect with the environment

Mikel Garcia Idiakez
08 June 2016
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One of the main concerns of young people between the ages of 9 and 14 is the loss of their mobile. That's what a study says, and even if adults were asked, the result wouldn't be very different. Escaping the grip of technology is becoming more and more difficult on a daily basis, but a new therapy for the holiday season is spreading: technological detoxification.

No wifi, no mobile, no computer, no ipad, from the tablet… They offer tourism without technology in different hotels and places. At the Hotel Renaissance in Pittsburgh (EE.UU. ), for example, customers are prohibited from accessing technological equipment; at the Westin Dublin Inn, they keep their mobiles to visitors in the safe during the holidays; Valdevilla (Castilla y León) is a free wifi space that offers tourists the life of the 1950s…

The Digital Detox organization has also been created in the United States under the motto Disconnect to reconnect (Digital Detox: Disconnect to reconnect). Among the activities it organizes are the Camp Grounded camps: instead of ebooks and digital cameras, yoga, climbing, writing and craft workshops, meditation…

Well, you don't have to go that far to enjoy nature, peace and others. In Euskal Herria we can find corners without connection or coverage, especially in some rural houses of the mountain (Koostei in Mutriku, Artiketxe in Urdaibai, Gorbeia Etxea in Murua..). And if not, the problem has an easy solution: get out of town and turn off your phone. Chatting, experimenting, playing with family and friends, enjoying what is beyond the screen, will be appreciated by the mind and body. In fact, the occasional lack of disconnection of technology can lead to cognitive and emotional atrophy, according to neurologists and psychologists.

Yes, at first it will cost you not to read the latest news on the usual web, lose ideas on social networks, park virtual games, but if you raise the view of the whatsapp, it seems that we have a world full of possibilities.

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