Do you have multiple cell phones? Do you find it hard to get through a conversation without posting an update to Facebook? Do you take your laptop to the beach on vacation? Does your partner want to throw your BlackBerry out the window?
We increasingly miss out on the important moments of our lives as we pass the hours with our noses buried in our iPhones and BlackBerry’s, chronicling our every move through Facebook and Twitter and shielding ourselves from the outside world with the bubble of “silence” that our ear phones create.
If you recognize that in yourself – or in the loved ones around you — join us in taking the Sabbath Manifesto Unplug Challenge and start living a different life: connect with the people physically around you, have an uninterrupted glass of wine, or read a book to your child.
Highlighted every year in March by the National Day of Unplugging, the Sabbath Manifesto is designed to help hyper-connected people of all backgrounds to embrace the ancient ritual of a day of rest.
Click here to read what happened when Time Magazine columnist Joel Stein, Mediaite Editor Rachel Sklar, Actor Josh Radnor and others unplugged.
Learn more about the Ten Principles here.
In 2010 and 2011, people all over the world took the unplug challenge and put down their cell phones, signed out of email, stopped their Facebook and Twitter updates for the National Day of Unplugging.
You can continue unplugging weekly, daily, monthly. It’s your Sabbath Manifesto.
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We’ve heard from people all over the world that they found it excruciating to unplug from their phones and PDAs, painful to log out of Facebook and Twitter and difficult shut down their e-mail. But they also said it was liberating and allowed them to reconnect with friends and family, to get outside without ear buds and enjoy the noise of life, or the silence of the great outdoors.
Can you take the “Unplug Challenge?” Tell us how you got there and what it was like! We want to hear your stories – www.sabbathmanifesto.org/community
Read what it was like for others:
Time magazine article: http://bit.ly/ddag3E
Mark Gardner’s blog: http://bit.ly/a5mXXq
Huffington Post Unplug Challenge article on Joel Stein: http://huff.to/axbcUf
Huffington Post Unplug Challenge launch article: http://huff.to/chagcq