{"id":677,"date":"2013-06-07T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/www.soulmatesecret.com\/wabisabilove\/?p=677"},"modified":"2014-06-22T19:17:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T19:17:15","slug":"rings-dings-and-pings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/2013\/06\/07\/rings-dings-and-pings\/","title":{"rendered":"My Addiction: Rings, Dings and Pings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dear Wabi Sabi Artisans,<\/p>\n

In the past sixty seconds, as I sit at my desk, I have heard the crashing of the ocean waves, birds chirping, the dog across the street barking, a car passing by and a multitude of electronic rings, dings and pings that alert me to incoming phone calls (both landline and cell phone), skype chats, text messages, emails, and Facebook IM\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Each of these sounds, from my myriad electronic gear, has its own unique tone and elicits a different physiological response.<\/p>\n

I smile when I hear the ding of the text.<\/p>\n

I cringe when my cell phone rings (I have a blinged-out Blackberry and it hurts my ear to talk on the phone but it makes it easier to find my phone when it\u2019s deep in my handbag\u2026go figure.)<\/p>\n

I sigh when my landline rings because these days it\u2019s generally a computer- generated robo call or a telemarketer\u2026<\/p>\n

And, depending on my stress level, I can be happy or annoyed when the emails land\u2026..<\/p>\n

I\u2019m no scientist but I do know that this just can\u2019t be good for my nervous system.\u00a0 Like Pavlov\u2019s dog, I am now trained to respond to all of these sounds.<\/p>\n

The simple solution is to turn them all off (which I do by 8pm most nights when they get placed on the kitchen counter to be re-charged) but sometimes, when I get up in the middle of the night for a glass of water, I just can\u2019t resist taking a peek to see what might have come in.\u00a0 Will it be good news or bad?<\/p>\n

I am in serious need of a tech detox\u2026.. I think I will start with a 24 hour one.\u00a0 This Sunday.\u00a0 One full day.\u00a0 No phone. No Email. No Internet. No rings, dings or pings.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll let you know what happens.<\/p>\n

If you have any ideas or solutions, please post them below.<\/p>\n

Thanks,
\nArielle<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Wabi Sabi Artisans, In the past sixty seconds, as I sit at my desk, I have heard the crashing of the ocean waves, birds chirping, the dog across the street barking, a car passing by and a multitude of electronic rings, dings and pings that alert me to incoming phone calls (both landline and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perfectionism","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}