Over the past five months, I’ve been experimenting with logging into social media once per fortnight. The experience has been positive. I’ve discovered the immense benefits of embracing mindfulness and minimalism in my relationship with social media.
As we head into 2025, I’m taking this commitment a step further: I’ll only log into social media once per month (and for no more than 15 minutes each time I log in). This choice allows me to focus on other aspects of my life, knowing that social media will always be there when I need it.
This decision to mindfully practice social media minimalism has brought so much richness to my life already, including:
1. The opportunity to use social media with mindfulness, discipline, and intentionality.
2. A fresh perspective on how social media contributes to today’s polarisations and destructive politics.
3. Space from the noise, narcissism (or, at least, self-absorption), misinformation, disinformation, and nastiness that saturate social media.
4. Enhanced emotional and spiritual well-being and peace.
5. Choosing to relinquish self, or at least the aspects of self that get in the way of God.
6. Freedom from digital addiction and dependency.
7. More time for the things that nourish my soul: reading, praying, meditating, exercising, and so much more.
8. A deeper focus on in-person relationships with family, friends, and neighbors—the connections that truly matter.
9. Other benefits that come from stepping back and realigning priorities.
This approach won’t suit everyone, and that’s okay! We all have different ways of engaging with the world. But I’ve found that a little more mindfulness in life can go a long way, and this practice is one way I’m embracing that truth. Social media mindfulness and minimalism can go a long way to a more fruitful, intentional, happy, mindful, Christlike life.
I’ll write a fuller post at the end of 2025 exploring what I’ve learned from this mindfulness practice.
Here’s to a more intentional, connected, and mindful 2025!
