If you're like me you have a really bad relationship with your phone! If you feel like you spend too much time glued to the screen of your phone, you might be able to cure your addiction with a surprisingly simple fix. So if you spend hours looking at your phone every day, like we all tend to do, and want to stop, then read on.
According to science, a lot of that phone addiction has to do with all of the notifications we get. You see, almost all of them are the color red. Red stimulates the brain and is at least partly responsible for why we keep looking. The people who create these notifications know this, and they are evil like that. They know exactly what they were doing when they created notification reminders.
If you're an iPhone user, you can find your missed messages appear in a small red bubble above the app icon, signifying how many unread messages you have, and for me, that raises my anxiety knowing how many missed texts I have and knowing there's some science behind that eases most of that unwanted anxiety.
One way to curb your phone desires and that is to turn your phone completely into greyscale mode, which seems to magically make you less prone to wanting to look at the typically vibrant screen way too often.
Check out the rest of what he has to say below and you too might be on your way to breaking that nasty phone addiction…