morningsun76 wrote:Now I don't have a TV, but I still do check Rense and Alex Jones regularly. I know you've been battling with "resisting the click" on and off for quite awhile now, with varying success. Maybe just for the sake of experiment, I'll also give it a go ... for awhile, anyway, just to see if there are any noticable effects. It would be interesting to see if total media disconnect would help with dreamscape remembrance and other aspects of life related to the subtler realms.
Plus, as an added bonus, it might help me to get things better organized. Reading those sites is something that's become an unconscious habit for me, and it's healthy to intentionally break those habits from time to time. It helps to keep one's mind alert and sharply tuned.
That's exactly it......it was this unconscious habit. I work at this temp job that usually has next to nothing going on, and so it was just a given to hop on the 'net and start surfing away. But then it soon became an unconscious habit, to the point where even when I was at home, if I'd click out of my email or the Noble Realms forum I'd stop by a couple of those sites really quick to check in and see what the latest craziness is in Entertainment Land. Five minutes here, five minutes there, it became an unconscious habit for "space filling."
I can tell you what it's like when you remove websites that have become a daily unconscious habit....it's like trying to break free from a gravity field. Truly. Imagine being in a spaceship trying to pull up and away from Earth to break free of the gravity. But once you get past a certain point - took a week for me - you're home free. For that first week I kept itching to click over....click over.....click over.....and would have to re-direct my attention elsewhere, namely reading. Also it helped that last week was the busiest week I've ever had at this silly temp job. I had more work given to me last week than any other week since I started 9 months ago. Convenient and helpful "coincidence."
But when I had down time I was prepared with good books....and as you noted, books help stimulate our imaginations.
I remember when I was a teen when I'd be reading a book I'd literally put myself into a light hypnotic trance. I could get so deep into the book that the sound of the world around me faded out and became silent, all I "heard" was the story in my mind. I've lost that ability over the years, to the point where by 1998, I was psuedo-A.D.D., even though I don't have ADD. I couldn't finish reading most anything I started. Then I became interested in non-fiction subjects, which create a different effect than story material. So shutting out all the excess media noise has to help in that regard, will be nice to see if I can return to the way I used to be way back when!
morningsun76 wrote:So, now it's just a question of will ... I'll let you know how that turns out!
Is anyone else up for it? I dare you! haha
It's highly recommended. http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3519 I think it's the best thing I've done in a long while. In fact....I got a lot of positive numbers during the time when I said "Enough's enough!!" So I know it's the best thing. Media noise is one of the most destructive things going on with humanity. imo.
proto wrote:I had a pretty weird dream the other day about Britney Spears. This dream was before her bald head fiasco.
Thanks for the unintentional additional motivator, proto.
haha
Synchronistically, my co-workers just began discussing celeb entertainment stuff....including Britney Spears, within minutes of me having read this. Only rarely do they talk about celebs, usually it's endless discussion surrounding every trivial detail and nauseating minutae of "child reaaring," complete with full on re-enactment of entire bits of conversation that took place between them and their kids....done in the kids' voices!......and full blow-by-blow run down of everything they do as families, causing me to want to stick the trashcan over my head. SO, needless to say, that was an interesting synch. But then again, they have the uncanny habit of blabbering back and forth about stuff that will synchronistically line up to things that I'm reading or writing, to the point of freakishness.
"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
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