11-22-2015 - #realitycheck Week #5 - Rest

Topic Breakdown:  You might be addicted to social media if, all the time, you find yourself looking at your phone, rather than talking to people that are there.  If it bings, if you can’t help but look at it, you’ve got to know all the time…In fact, there’s a new phobia that doctors are now dealing with to help people.  It’s a very serious problem.  It’s called “nomophobia,” and it’s not a joke.  It’s nomophobia, and nomo implies what you think it would be.  It’s the fear of not being connected through a mobile device – nomophobia.  In fact, studies show that about 66 percent of people have extreme anxiety if they lose connection, if their batteries fail, or if their phone is not with them.  For those who are 18 to 24, the number jumps to 76 percent of people.  Over three in four in that age group have a massive fear of not being connected online.  80 percent of teenagers sleep with their phone.

THE POINT: Learn to be disconnected and still in the presence of God...and listen.