Consciously disconnect from screens and enjoy life.

An unexpected visit give us an unexpected results. This is what happened on my visit to sisters place. I am aligned an appointment with an eye specialist friends of her. I was surprised to find the initial phase of my weakening eyesight. It is the begining phase with minor alteration to my focal power. I never expected this, as I never had any eyesight issue, but my sister insisted to get it checked which took me by surprise. As it in begining phase, so I need to take more care to avoid any major concern. I was more curious to know the causes of my eyesight weakening and doctor said that this is something common nowadays because of over exposure to screen like mobile or computer.

This made to recollect my screen on time record from my mobile. Which gives a staggering figure.

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(data from my own mobile device)

Screen on time are the amount of time spent on a device with a screen, such as a smartphone, computer, television, video game console, or tablet etc. No doubt, lately I have been spending good amount of time in looking at mobile screen. This is the only way, I remain active on #Hive. Making contents, curating and commenting requires more gluing on to the mobile. The more we expose to it, the more we are putting our eyesight at risk of damages.

Over indulgence

In recent times, Our lifestyle has changed so drastically that, we find it hard to keep ourself away from technology, especially when it comes to mobile or computer. Our over dependence on these devices always put a risk factor for our well being. Either due to work or because of personal reason, we tend to spend good amount of time on social media or other things. We remain hooked to screen for our requirement. This causes a lot of strain to eyes which causes weakening of the eyesight. This is not limited to adults, but you might have noticed the Youngs kidd putting on heavy power glasses on their eye. They spoiled their eye sight either through mobile devices or watching Television. May be parent were to blame for such situation.

Just In case, you also wanted to check yours screen on time you can check it too through Android device by going to

Settings > Digital Wellbeing & parental controls > menu icon > Manage your data > click on Daily device usage.

As per certain reports, an ideal screen on time would be between 2–4 hours per day. This helps us in maintaining a healthy balance of our physical and mental state.

Safety measure. (20-20 rule)

The more we keep ourself distant from these screen devices the better it is for us. However the various related demand and the technological innovation made our life insepersble. Rather than controlling, we are exposing more and more. The experts too are aware of the various drawback of screen on time. And this is why they have introduced 20-20 rule. A rule that simple to adapt and make our life easier. Thanks to the doctor that checked my eye, who introduced me to this rule to minimize my eyes to strain.

What is 20-20 rule?

The care of the eyes is mostly depends upon it's blinking process. Blinking protects our eyes from, dryness, bright lights, foreign objects, fingers, and other debris. It is to be noted that Newborns only blink about two times a minute, while teens blink around 15 times a minute, and adults blink about the same. Blinking can also increase in response to pain, bright light, changes in temperature and humidity.

Now when we focus on our work and keep continously staring at the screen, we often miss out blinking our eyes. This mishappening leads to eye issue. If we keep.focussingnon something without eye movement, it causes dryness as well as irritation, this will leads to weakening of eye sight. To avoid, any more harm to our eye we should keep rotating our eyes in interval. The 20-20 rule says , that while we work for 20 minutes you can give a rest to.your eyes for 20 seconds. Either, we distract our eyes from the focusing or wash eyes with cold water or take some eye drops to relax the pressure that apply on our eyes. This way e can prevent our self from bad effects of screen on time.

Peace!!

Namaste @steemflow

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I love the fact that you use the word consciously in your title. We all need moderation in all we do, so as not to be affected.

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Thanks....The more we remain aware, the better it is.

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It's my first time reading about the 20-20 rule and I think it's really okay to always take a break to protect our eyes from developing complications. We live in an age where a lot of things can be done on our smart devices and it causes us to spend more time on screen.

We need to be cautious and apply discipline to control the excessive time we spend on screen .

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My doctor advised me to follow while working on Happy or mobile. I observed he was quite right in his approach....it works ...and a short break in between the work.is alwsys add benefit for the well being.

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Mera bhi screen time kuch jyada hi hota jata hai ..aur mujhe uske effect bhi dikhne lge h 😅😅
I'll try to apply that 20-20 rule 😊

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Keep washing the eyes , it help to give much needed relaxation

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Nice approach to give comfort to eyes. I also apply somewhat near to it. I try to take 1 min break and close my eyes during that. It's work well. I will aslo try this 20-20 now. !LUV !PIZZA

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I usually wash my eye with cold water whenever get time...or whenever feel any issue ...it alwsys work.

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That 20:20 rule was a good rule to follow specially for me who's work involves a lot of exposure to computers. Thanks for the insight.

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It is better to relax often rather than putting pressure....20-20 is just an example...but one should not play with the biolgical cycle.

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I learned about blinking many years ago when I was teaching and I realised that I always had eyestrain. I did some research and found that. I got into the habit of blinking often to take care of my eyes as I work long hours in front of the computer. Take care of your eyesight!

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Doctor asked me to blink on looking at the alien wotches so wondering when i could see a alien...it is a good treatment and cheaper...

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hahaha you make me laugh!!!! See me? in another life! I'm normal!!! jajajaj but alien jajaja

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🤗🤗🤗 ...nor sure how doctor know about you... but that what doctor ordered....where I could find a alien witch

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Well like me there must be more.... haha especially witches!! haha must be some doctor I know haha

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When u came to India...or u might met him in his dream 😜 but seems I have to keep dealing with my eye problem....Una le to get the doctor treatment

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Relax your eyes with nature... blink and .... what is the problem or diagnosis?

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It is initial phases....distance sighting is blurry...what to expect at 60 of years age

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Do you need glasses to see far away or something?

You are paying a lot of attention to what is going on in your family for some reason .... that means.

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I don't need glasses to see far away alien witches 😍...

The situation is not too worst, but begining of the weak sighting...May be you are correct...there are tension and worries that keep surrounding me

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When you have to pay a lot of attention to your family, you may lose a little bit of your sight in the distance or you may get those clouds that don't let you see well, cataracts, they are called cataracts. Every health issue has an emotional side.

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20 20 is good advice. It definitely helps O.O I should've wrote this in my blog but didnt think of it at that time

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Well even I came to know recently ...thanks to the doctor who pitched in at right time.

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oh o.o you didn't know about this until now? that's quite late. this is probably one of the solutions provided online for eyes that feel tired. it's ok better late than never at least you know now

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