The television is extremely addictive.  However, the computer can also be addictive.  Most people can justify the computer by saying that it is informative, but it can also be as mind numbing as the T. V. if used improperly.

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About five months ago I had my cable TV disconnected, and I have no regular antenna.  I use the set only to watch a movie occasionally.  Rather than feeling deprived, I feel liberated.

About a year ago, I succumbed to ordering cable TV just to get the internet.

I find it is intensely annoying with all the commercials. I still find myself watching. This is not entertainment, it is addiction.

 Nora

The Emotional Freedom Technique's (EFT) Discovery Statement is that "the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system". I work as an EFT Practitioner tapping many hours per day with clients therefore I don't have many disruptions in my energy system. Yet every so often I'll watch some TV and find that I have to tap quite a few rounds to remove all the disturbances from my energy system caused by the imagery and emotions I felt while watching.

I think that TV may cause disease not only from lack of activity while watching but by us experiencing consistent and serious disruptions to our energy system. We experience emotions from TV much more that we would in a life without TV; more then we have evolved to handle.

Try a week without TV and then 1 hour and notice if you too notice similar effects.

In addition to 5 hours in front of the TV, Americans spend another 2.5 hours listening to radio and a half hour listening to recorded music. A combined total of time spent in front of media each day is 10 hours, which also includes reading newspapers, looking at the Internet, playing video games and reading other media.

With many people constantly plugged in to media, when do they get time to think for themselves? In all the hours of being entertained, talked to, lied to, or just plain dulled into passivity, the risk is that we are in fact a consumer society, lacking the initiative to create, compose, invent or innovate.

A person who actually wants to make a difference in the world will probably not fall into the extreme average tallied in the census. Time is our most precious commodity. One way to judge your success potential is to see how you use your discretionary time.