NEED A DETOX FROM YOUR PHONE? THERE IS A BOOK FOR THAT!

Majority of society today have a very complex relationship with their phones. We talk on them, often choosing to interact with the screen over spending time with family or friends. Tests show that we can check our phones on an average of 85 times per day.

Like any other relationship, this is one that needs be a balanced one too, so The School of Life presents the Phone Detox. The booklet is the size of your average phone and contains insights, ideas and meditation that help you get over your heavy dependency on your phone, social media and validation addictions. The Phone Detox book covers relevant topics like addiction, monasticism, poetry, nature, dating, utopia, and even death.

It is aimed at allowing users to take a step back, breathe, and contemplate a little, rather than simply consuming content the internet keeps throwing our way. The makers of the book say that the "Phone Detox knows we love our phones and would never want us to give them up, but it is also gently aware that these delightful gadgets bear a hidden cost. This flip book is a tool that aims to bring a little sanity to our closest, most intense and possibly most danger-laden technological relationship."

You can read an extract from the booklet here!