If you know Balance Phone devices, the absence of colors has probably caught your attention.
The reason is that setting your phone interface to black and white helps you use it less and breaks the state of alertness that does so much damage in our daily lives.
In today's article, we will delve into this aspect and give you some recommendations so you can make the most of this feature. Don't miss it!
Why does black and white mode reduce phone usage?
To understand the importance of this detail, we must analyze it from both a psychological point of view and our body's own chemistry.
Our nervous system constantly reacts to stimuli, and the color generated by electronic devices is one of the effects that activates us the most.
Every time we turn on the screen, the brain instinctively associates certain colors with specific actions.
The color of icons, like Facebook blue, or the intense red of notifications are not innocent aesthetic decisions; they are designed to awaken the impulse to enter.
And in most cases, we do it for no apparent reason, just out of inertia. Having a black and white interface, like on Balance Phone's limited devices, breaks that cycle
Even though apps retain their original color when opened, removing these visual triggers from the main menu means the phone loses much of the power that leads us to click and start infinite scrolling.
Without these visual cues, the device loses its constant "hook."
But what exactly happens in our body when this occurs? Let's take a look.
What changes in your health when you remove the color from your phone for a few days?
Human beings carry over some cognitive behaviors from our most primitive era, stemming from when we had to be alert to the dangers of the environment.
The example of a tiger appearing and the release of cortisol to flee from it is well known, but unfortunately, nowadays we have accustomed the body to generate it more as an organism's complaint than as an impulse.
In a way, we keep our body in a state of unnecessary alarm, which harms us more than we think.
Unlocking the phone and putting all our attention on a display of visual stimuli not only produces stress, but the continuous state of alert ends up making it hard to sleep when the time comes, causing headaches, or making us irritable with the people around us.
If this happens to adults, the impact on developing brains is even worse, making screen management a crucial step to help a teenager sleep better.
The body is simply reacting, keeping us in tension, but this time the tiger doesn't bite us, it hypnotizes us for hours in front of the phone.
The good news is that the change is noticeable sooner than it seems. Most people who try grayscale mode for a few days claim that they pick up the phone less often without intending to, fall asleep more easily, and feel less of that usual tension.
Recommendation for phones with black and white screens
For these reasons, at Balance Phone we have opted to offer an interface entirely in black and white on our products.
This not only reduces usage time, but also helps center our lives away from screens.
But whether you choose our Balance Phone Pro or not, what we do recommend is that you opt for options that include this by default. Because yes, we know that both Android and iPhone have applications to enter black and white mode, but they can also be disabled.
And fighting the temptation to turn the color back on during a low night or when we get a message is high. When this restriction comes by default, we simply cannot.
The best of all is that usage leads us to get used to it, and in a few weeks it will be so much a part of our routine and we will reap so many benefits that we won't miss the option.
Therefore, we invite you to take a look at our website and see this and all the advantages we offer you from Balance Phone. That is already the first step to improve your relationship with technology. Are you ready to take it?
