Re: Resist the Click

Okay....Day 9 of resisting the click!

You know what it's like....it's like a spaceship pulling away from a planet's gravitational field.   But once you clear it, it's easy.  big_smile   But that's how it felt.   For the first week I kept itching, out of habit, to type in old standby URL's after I'd check my email.  Would keep having the thought...come on, just type it in really quick, take a quick look at the headlines, that's all, you don't even have to read the stories!

NOPE!

Eventually the urge goes away once you realize that you intend to have willpower and stick with it.  "I will not type in those URL's!   Won't won't won't!!"   haha   It's all habit though.  Doing it just because there's time to kill...so why not, you know?....just do it....do it....do it.....

My head does feel clearer, maybe it's my imagination, but I don't feel like I have all this "stuff" jumbling up my brain.  The mind feels calmer, less internal dialogue.  Coincidentally I've felt so incredibly positive too this week, high energy and good.  Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but it's definitely a coincidence.  wink

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
-----
"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
-----

Re: Resist the Click

I can't resist checking Rense and Slashdot on a daily basis.  Otherwise I'm 100% media-free as well. smile     It's a good way to be.   It reminds me of that scene in Crocodile Dundee where the old guy says something like "See you on Wednesday, Mick" and Dundee replies "Sounds good ... Hey Wal?  What day is it today?"    I've been living like that for awhile and it's a good way to be.  Of course I haven't had a "normal" job either. tongue   That will be changing soon, so unfortunately I may be back using the clock and calendar again for awhile.    So the trick will be to keep as much of the remaining time free for constructive uses, and so "resisting the click" makes a lot of sense.

Re: Resist the Click

Okay, Ive been bad.   I cant resist watching *Ghost Hunters* on wed. nights.  I did stop wearing a watch about 5 months ago, and found out that I didnt miss it at all. I dont watch NBC nightly lies anymore, when my husband turns it on, I leave the room or go outside in the garden. My daughter does conjole me into watching a movie with her now and then.  Im trying guys!

In man's analysis and understanding of himself, it is as well to know from whence he came as whither he is going.   Edgar Cayce

Beliefs are tools for social conditioning, rather than expressions of inner realization or inner truth.   unknown
Ad Verecundiam

34 (edited by lyra 2006-06-15 09:14:22)

Re: Resist the Click

treehugger wrote:

I did stop wearing a watch about 5 months ago, and found out that I didnt miss it at all.

Oh yeah...I haven't worn a watch since I was about 20 maybe?  11 years now.  I used to wear one only because my parents got me started on it as a kid, always giving me watches for birthday presents.  They were considered an accessory, as well as a "necessity" I guess.   roll  But then at 20, 21, I began to become very aware and conscious of what things about "me" were really stuff my parents created or molded me into.  Dropped the watches, pronto.  wink   I don't need one anyway, I have an internal clock that's pretty amazing, when needed.  I first discovered my internal clock when I was 15, when I was able to "guess" the time to the minute.  Don't know how that works.   I can either guess the time to the minute, or at least estimate really well, like if I'm out on my lunch break at work. 



treehugger wrote:

My daughter does conjole me into watching a movie with her now and then.  Im trying guys!

Well no worries, nobody here is judging your progress! big_smile  Everybody has to do what's rigtht for them.  Most of us will never be 100% media free.  But I'm aiming for 99%!  haha   I'll still watch movies too here and there.   Won't be completely militant about it.  wink

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
-----
"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
-----

Re: Resist the Click

Sorry to pull this thread up a year and a half later, but was wondering how you were doing with this, Lyra?

36 (edited by Pictus 2007-10-15 20:01:05)

Re: Resist the Click

I do not use a watch anymore because mine broke...
But to cook any type of food, I need a chronograph or it will burn... LoL

To test the will against the click! LoL
http://popurls.com/

Bye, Pictus

--------------------
http://pictus.co.nr

Re: Resist the Click

Good luck, lyra. Mum buys this junky woman gossip magazine, it just looks so tempting. I feel reading it would fill my head with silly ideas and pictures, so I do my best to not even look at it sitting so innocuously on the coffee table. But sooner or later I cave and start reading it. It's crape of course, but it is addictive crape.

Re: Resist the Click

lol "addictive crape"

"The universe is on fire with wonder, beauty, and ecstasy." - From the Undines to Humanity