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    Breaking Free From the Social Media Trance
    Breaking Free From the Social Media Trance
    Breaking Free From the Social Media Trance
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    Breaking Free From the Social Media Trance

    By James Malone

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    Is your smartphone secretly controlling you? In Breaking Free From the Social Media Trance, you will discover how Silicon Valley uses covert methods to addict you to their allegedly free services and increase their bottom line. More importantly, you will be provided with practical tips on how to take back control.

    Considerable attention has been given as of late to the downside of excessive screen time. It can harm your emotional and physical health in ways you may not have realized.

    You will learn how online habits can resemble other problem behaviors such as smoking and overeating. These kinds of behaviors become automatic and difficult to consciously control. The good news is that the hypnosis profession has a long track history of helping people like you reverse unwanted habit patterns.

    The author is a professional hypnotist with 25 years of experience in helping his clients become better versions of themselves and has authored several e-books on life enhancement techniques

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Malone
    Release dateDec 21, 2019
    ISBN9780463141847
    Breaking Free From the Social Media Trance
    Author

    James Malone

    James Malone has been a Certified Hypnotist since 1995 and continues to work with individuals and small groups who feel stuck in negative patterns of thought, feeling and behavior. He also publishes the popular Creative Calm Newsletter.

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      Breaking Free From the Social Media Trance - James Malone

      James Malone

      Breaking the Social Media TRANCE

      Learn how and why to control your social media habits from a professional hypnotist.

      First published by Published at Smashwords 2019

      Copyright © 2019 by James Malone

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

      The information in this book is not intended to replace qualified medical or psychological care if it is warranted in your case.

      First edition

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Background Check

      So What’s the Harm?

      Youth at Risk

      Your Unconscious Now?

      The New Smoking?

      Cutting Back or Eliminating?

      Final Thoughts

      About the Author

      1

      Introduction

      None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

      Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author, and statesman.

      I can remember a college history class where the professor shared a theory about a potential factor in the fall of the Roman Empire. It seems that the elite preferred to store their wine in lead vessels because at the time wine was harsh tasting; it was not the refined product it generally is today.

      Although highly toxic, the lead will impart a sweet taste to anything stored in it. But the trade-off is that your brain gets damaged in the process among many other nasty physical effects. The theory went that as the ruling classes’ mental and physical health declined, so did their republic.

      The lead was a threat hidden in plain sight that appeared nice and sweet.

      This may seem like a bold statement but I suspect that something similar is happening to us at this very moment due to our immersion in the digital world and may in large measure account for the escalating rates of depression, anxiety and serious drug addiction we are now seeing.

      This is not to say that there isn’t a plus side to this new technology. It does enable us to create and connect in ways that were not practical or even possible not that long ago. Nonetheless, the potential for harm is there and you will want to be mindful of the potential dangers.

      We are all familiar with the idea of a digital device being hacked. A third party introduces a stealth program into your computer that takes control of it away from you and hands it over to the hacker.

      If like many others, you are compulsively checking your smartphone up to 80 times per day, have you been hacked by Silicon

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