Digital Detox and Slow Living: 2025 Wellness Trend
How to protect yourself amidst endless notifications and floods of information. Discussing the importance of digital detox and the mental rest that slow communication brings.
Digital Detox and Slow Living: 2025 Wellness Trend
We Are Too Connected
Daily life where we can't put down smartphones. Checking SNS as soon as we wake up in the morning, watching YouTube until just before falling asleep. Constantly ringing notifications, pouring news, others' glamorous daily lives...
We are living in a hyper-connected era more than ever in history. But paradoxically, we feel increasingly tired and isolated.
Digital Fatigue Syndrome
- Decreased Concentration: Getting used to short-form content makes it difficult to read long texts or think deeply (Popcorn Brain)
- Sleep Disorders: Insomnia due to blue light and excessive dopamine secretion
- Comparison Depression: Feeling of deprivation from comparing others' edited daily lives with my reality
- FOMO Syndrome: Anxiety that I'm the only one missing the flow
Digital Detox, Not a Choice but a Necessity
In 2025, Digital Detox is establishing itself as an essential lifestyle for survival beyond a simple trend. Just logging out for a moment gives our brain and mind great rest.
Daily Digital Detox Practices
- Turn Off Notifications: Turn off all app notifications except for absolutely necessary contacts.
- No Phone in Bedroom: Stay away from smartphones 1 hour before sleep and read or meditate.
- Screen-free Zone: Prohibit smartphone use in certain spaces like dining tables or bathrooms.
- Have Analog Hobbies: Do activities that move your hands like calligraphy, drawing, walking, cooking.
Healing Through Slow Communication
The core of digital detox is slowing down. And we need to slow down in human relationships too.
Get away from messenger conversations where you're hurt by being 'read but ignored' and forced to reply immediately. Slow Communication changes the quality of relationships.
Value of Slow Communication Proposed by Lettie
Lettie intentionally designed inconvenience and waiting.
- Not Sent Immediately: Letters take time to arrive.
- Long-breath Writing: Exchange long-breath letters, not short one-word messages.
- Excitement of Waiting: Waiting without knowing when a reply will come becomes excitement, not anxiety.
In this slow process, we fully think about the other person and look into our own inner self.
"Since using Lettie, I spend less time looking at my smartphone. Instead, I spend more time walking thinking about what story to write. My mind became much more comfortable during the days waiting for a reply." - User Review
Log Out, and Log In to the Real World
Turn off the screen for a moment and lift your head. The scenery outside the window, the eyes of loved ones, the scent of warm coffee... The real world is outside the screen.
Turn off the noise of the digital world for a moment and feel the peace of slow communication with Lettie. Your mind also needs a comma.
How about putting down your smartphone for a moment and writing a letter with your heart?