Disconnection Work

Read

• The four beginner essays on Disconnection
• Extension: The Appendices for Disconnection

Some useful pages for Disconnection:

• Advice: Troubleshooting Internet Urges
• Tool: Lost on the Way - a page to use as a Leechblock redirect
• Tool: Cloister Day - potential template for keeping a day off

Do

• CONTINUE YOUR WALKING PRACTICE
• CONTINUE YOUR READING PRACTICE
• Commit to a regular Disconnection practice. Put it in your calendar. I recommend one Disconnected Day per week, plus a smaller daily habit/commitment
• Re-read the Disconnection essays throughout the week
• Extension: learn about Mindfulness, especially techniques which focus on the senses. Cautiously, employ them at times when you are practising Disconnection.
• Extension: I recommend Cal Newport's technique of taking 30 days away from the internet entirely, and then returning to what you value one at a time.

Reflect

1. This chapter considers the internet. What are the online things you like and which add value to your life? What about it would you like less of?
2. What emotions and worries come up for you around being offline? What physical and emotional states tend to prompt time online you view as harmful, and how could you redirect yourself?
3. The Practices teach our values. What lessons and values have you discovered in Disconnection?
4. The booklet discusses ways that the three Practices interact. Can you think of any others?

Test

Attempt by memory, then look up if you found remembering it difficult. If you like writing, answer in your own words in your Mirror Book or blog. You have passed the test when you can answer these questions by memory (unless memory is a particular challenge for you, in which case set a test you can meet)

1. What is Disconnection?
2. Make a list of keywords associated with the Stellar
3. List 10 ways of “Disconnecting” which don’t include the web
4. What are the purpose(s) of Disconnection?

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