Martial Arts to Combat Technology Fatigue

Martial Arts to Combat Technology Fatigue

written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts

Technology fatigue is a very recent term buzzing in news and articles. Even as early as the time when electronic media made its first appearance, theorists like Marshall McLuhan have spoken how media becomes an extension of humans. Today, technology has become the same thing: an extension, so integrated to human body and life, that we can't escape it. Or we think we can't.

Technology Fatigue and Its Impact

Today, around us, it is difficult to see a person who is not staring into some kind of screen. With all kinds of integrative technologies, the thing is that you can access your work and entertainment from anywhere, and any device. This means that all your life, 24X7, you are surrounded by technology. You constantly keep yourself busy checking emails, reading text messages, watching backlogs of videos, updating work, catching a few moments of music or answering calls. After a while, it can be very tiring.

This exactly can be termed technology fatigue. Technology consumes too much of your time, it preoccupies your eyes and ears more than it should be doing. Whether you are a student or a working adult, technology crams your mind with too much of an information overload than the brain can take at a time. All this leads to technology fatigue. And its impact and symptoms are not very reassuring.

Invariably, a person facing technology fatigue feels the following symptoms:

• Feelings of exhaustion and being burned out
• Unnecessary anxiety
• Unbearable stress and depressed states of mind
• A state in which you are always alert to technology and expecting something to happen
• Inability to balance work with life, leading to broken relationships and broken homes
• Health issues that spring from straining your body, eyes and ears
• Obesity and other issues arising out of physical inactivity

Martial Arts: The Ultimate Way to Unplug Yourselves

All that description of technology fatigue may sound scary, but the good thing is that there are ways by which you can disconnect yourselves. The best option is martial arts.

Martial arts begins from the realization that hectic work and studying is the reality of modern life and can't be changed – either for adults or for kids. So the way out lies in learning to live with it. Therefore, martial arts... 

• Teaches you how to de-stress, meditate, and gain control over your mental peace
• Rejuvenates you physically and mentally after draining work hours
• Engages you in a physically active and mentally free hours of training and meditation
• Helps you to regain cordial behavior, liveliness and character, through which you can improve relations
• Provides physical exercise and activity to improve health and fitness
• Helps children to improve their studying through a refreshing break 

At professional martial art academies you get to learn not just the moves and kicks, but also the values that really form a martial art. Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy (Peabody, MA) is a perfect choice, where there are a number of options like children's programs and family programs where you can learn martial arts in your personal way. If your lifestyle involves too much of technology that you feel like disconnecting for a while, Bruce McCorry's is for you. Unplug yourselves from the hectic life for a few hours and learn to live life to the fullest with martial arts today! www.brucemccorrys.com

Children and Cell Phones: Issues, Dangers and Alternatives

Children and Cell Phones: Issues, Dangers and Alternatives

Written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy (Peabody, MA)

Every age has its own metaphor. Faith for the Middle Ages, the human for the Renaissance age, machine for the industrial age were all determining symbols. If you ask what the metaphor of the modern age is, it has to be the cell phone. It is especially true for children and teenagers, because, after all, they are the generation that was born to the technological affluence. 

Like every other trend, as good as they are, they have there bad issues as well.

Cell Phone Issues and Children 

Parents are always anxious to control how their kids use cell phones, and this anxiety is not in vain: cell phones have proved to be the villain in many cases. 

• Statistics show that middle school is the time when a child usually gets a cell phone. Out of the 84% of Americans who are mobile phone owners, the age range starts from 12.
• Of the child users of cell phone, 65% take it to school.
• According to a study, an average American schoolchild receives more than 2700 text message a month.
• A quarter of this is sent and received during class hours.

From this, it is evident how cell phone usage can adversely affect studying itself. There are other negatives as well.

• Even in after-school hours, most of the cell phone users sadly prefer to be entertained by phone than outdoor activities.
• Constantly disturbing phone messages force kids to break off their attention from whatever else they have been doing.
• Getting cell phones at young ages often lead the kids to dangerous friendships and acquaintances. It is a leading factor for the increasing teen crimes.
• Cell phones also encourages virtual crimes like child pornography and cyber bullying.

Today, very few families spend time together. Children mostly don't socialize with same-age peers after school. Entertainments of human togetherness such as playing, talking and socializing have lost their value, and technology has taken the space.

De-Technologizing Lives: Martial Arts as an Alternative 

For these numerous problems aired here, if there is a one-time solution, that is martial arts. What your cell phone-crazy child needs is an alternative space, where they can have fun with others of their age. Something which they can enjoy without gluing themselves to a screen, something would compensate for the physical inactivity of their lives. Martial arts is all of this.

If a cell phone prevents them from studying, martial arts improves their study skills. A cell phone makes them inactive, while the latter makes them healthy and fit. Some unique programs actually offer more than this. For instance, the Martial Arts Program at Bruce McCorry's Academy offers an opportunity to share time with family as well, through family programs. Further, the After-school Program at the academy is a safe and comfortable space that protects children from dangers of after-school hours. Unique, specialized martial art programs like these, your children will engage themselves fully and enjoy their life. It will make their life meaningful. Say no to dehumanizing technologies and embrace martial arts instead! Think Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts.