I thought this meditation would be effective for those who may need some help resisting the urge to turn on the TV.
“A Self-guided Meditation on Television”I vow to stop brainwashing myself with television. Television is the transmission of television shows, and businesses produce television shows in order to make money by selling advertising space to businesses that want me to buy their products just like Pavlov wanted his dog to come eat a meal every time Pavlov rang a bell. And if I don’t think commercials affect me, then determine why businesses spend billions of dollars advertising each year … because it works! [1] If I put a rat in a box (or a living room) and the rat stared at images of attractive actors pretending to be happy, and the rat listened to pleasurable sounds, and all the images and sounds were embedded with products, the rat would want the product. And if the images and sounds change frequently enough, the rat would develop attention deficit disorder. [2] And once the images and sounds were constantly allowed to penetrate into the holiest of holies within the sacred temple, the brain, the rat’s behavior would reflect the content of its washed brain. I will not be a rat in another person’s scientifically engineered system of misleading, manipulative, and distracting images and sounds. Rather, I will BE what I truly am: the most advanced form of LIFE in this galaxy—a LIVING human BEING. damien hoffman
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