News Narcotics

Did you see it, read it, the news?

Hooked, addicted, news, abuser … this is the world of the News Narcotic!

I was in my village today where I live and a guy asked if I’d seen the news all week? I said ‘no’

He reply, ‘no are you serious you don’t know about this guy killing his ex-wife, shooting a policeman in the face hiding for days and then shooting himself live on TV in the head?’

‘No’ I replied. He looked at me as if I had just landed from another solar system on a day visit to Lymm!

The conversation ended. Then as I looked along the line EVERYONE was talking about this news incident. Even worse Jean (the till girl) would say to every single person at the checkout the same line…

‘did you see that man on the news shooting all of those people and then killing himself, Terrible wasn’t it, terrible’

I eventually got to the checkout and she repeated the same one liner to me. I replied to her…’are you enjoying the hot  weather?’ Jean replied… ‘at least it was good weather for that guy on the run and to shoot himself’

I thought, how can it ever be good weather to shoot yourself? Has Jean gone crazy?  Has the people in the shop been taken over by some insidious invisible airborne virus?

When I got outside I then could see the same story on billboards, on a TV across the road in an electronics window and as I walked past people up the street I could easily hear how they were all talking about the same subject.

This is the effect of News Narcotic.

Think about this.

You go to bed at night and your brain and body refreshes itself from all the dirt and grime from the day. Even the mental grime from the news, media and more.

Then in the morning we are programmed to… listen to the news… in our home, in our car, from a newspaper, in the line at the shops, one person to another… chat, chat, chat!

Does that have an effect on mankind? Does that have an effect on YOU?

You bet it does.

Think about this.

You drink tea or coffee? You drink coke? They are caffeine loaded. Now I know you don’t need big brother me to tell you that but let think about this.

Each day first thing in the morning, several times in the day, in the evenings we load up with our drinks, our favorite drinks right? Now we do it on autopilot. We don’t think about it because our body needs it. Our body is asking us, it’s telling, demanding of us we top up. If we don’t follow the subliminal demands… we suffer headaches etc.

So think about this.

Your body, my body reacts and acts in ways not even scientists understand. What we do know and they do know is what we ingest mentally and physically has an effect on our body.

So when we wake up our news addiction asks us to tune and find out. We wake, switch on tune in and top up. Why? Because that’s what we are conditioned to do. Go to any news stand where I live on a weekend in particular and you’ll see line after line after line after line of people walking out topping up on the news.

The problem with this is this…

Science has proved humans are affected at a cellular level by external happenings.

When we all tune into something bad it reduces the wavelength or the force or the power or the energy we work at. In other words we under perform at almost every level.

When we tune into good, we over perform and I think the best recent example is the HIGH of the World Cup in South Africa. A nation come together like never before to celebrate the good of sport and people coming together. They read it. They slept it. The worked it. The ate it. It transformed that nation in months. Incredible example of how GOOD vibrations can transform.

But when we focus on the bad stuff like the news, like celebrity lifestyles, like soap operas, like TV trash, like daily news on the hour, from the hour we are led into a dark alley on nowhere and no growth for ourselves as people.

In the UK we have a TV show called Eastenders. From start to finish it is manafactured human misery and drama. Death, divorce, pain, suffering, tears and low, low feeling. Yet a third of the UK population watch it. You can hear people talking and being part of the life of the characters. They talk as if they are real. ‘Did you see what happend to Pauline last night?’ … yet Pauline doesn’t exist, she is fantasty created by a writer. This fantasty becomes a reality and is aborbed into the human.

Actually… terrifying when you think about this!

In fact this negative food holds mankind in a state of fear. When in a state of fear mankind will ALWAYS look to be led and NOT lead himself.

So man when at that level is hooked, looking and asking for a leader at an invisible level.

Interesting because everyman has the ability to lead himself in or out of everything but it depends on how tuned in he/she is to themselves.

The more we unplug from the daily happenings, newsreel, endless gossip about his life, her life, their life and the more we focus on who and what we are as human BE-INs the more we unleash the creator, the genius, the human in us.

Are you addicted? Are you hooked on News Narcotics?

There is always a way out for you. There are always for you to grow and expand yourself, to get strong, be stronger, thrive and survive.

It’s up to you.

Enjoy your adventure.

Do you have an opinion on this? I’d love to hear you share it.

8 Responses to News Narcotics

  1. Neil says:

    Hi,
    I agree 100% with you.

    I stopped reading newspapers, listening to the radio and watching the new years ago. The media seems to be infatuated with misery and suffering and I, personally, am not interested in hearing about bad news, it starts your day off wrong and is only programming your brain to start in a bad mood and from there it will pick up on more bad things than good things, as that’s what your brain is now programmed to look for (same when you are looking for a car, suddenly you will see the same car everywhere you go) to me the car analogy is the same with bad news, if you start the bad with bad news, you will spend your day looking for the negative in everything.

    Each to their own, but I know how I prefer to spend my days :)

    Regards
    Neil

  2. Kelvin says:

    Spot on as usual, Alan.

    I can’t stand programmes like East Enders either, yet several people I know seem to make a point of watching it. “Reality TV” is another must-turn-off in my book.

    When I (occasionally) watch TV, I want to be either informed, entertained or uplifted. Sadly, there’s not much on terrestrial TV these days that does any of those things.

    At least a good book will exercise your mind.

    All the best.

    Kelvin

  3. Viviana says:

    Thanks, Alan – you’ve said what I’ve been thinking and feeling for years. I don’t read newspapers any more for the reasons you outline. Until recently I worked in television so couldn’t avoid watching it. That’s not a problem any more.

    It’s sad to see how much of our society functions on fear. I had to go to the doctor last week and left the surgery feeling much worse, thanks to those bl**dy posters all over the wall. You know the ones – “Halitosis Can Kill!” “Your precious, vulnerable health is at risk every day of your life!”;”Have you caught bird flu yet? Why not?” or whatever.

    It’s enough to make you glug Domestos (“kills 99.9% of all known germs”) when you get home.

    I wonder if Jean the till girl thinks today’s weather’s more suitable for anyone thinking of topping themselves…

    With best wishes as always
    ,
    Viviana

  4. Steve Brandon says:

    Hi Alan.
    Thanks for another thought-provoking article.
    I know it’s frustrating, but I think we just have to accept that’s the way people are until something inwardly motivates them to get rid of the junk in their lives. It seems to be a long process of awakening, which I think we’re all going through to a greater or lesser extent. Cutting out all that negative stuff in magazines, newspapers and on TV – it’s like detoxing your diet and going veggie, vegan, raw, etc. Just be thankful that you’re in a better place than they are right now. And give yourself the praise you deserve for setting a good example to others by not being drawn into gossip, negativity and scare-mongering.
    Take care.
    All the best.
    Steve

  5. Sarah says:

    I love Jean’s line ‘at least it was good weather for that guy on the run and to shoot himself’ – we often get so caught up in the addictive negative stuff that we relate everything to it.
    Wouldn’t it be great if we could connect with the “good” news, to celebrate our successes and share stories of the day to day pleasures in life – the beauty of a sunset, or the bus that arrived on time (!)
    Simple things like Smiling at a Stranger can be enough to cleanse the day, lift the spirits and leave the “News Narcotics” behind :)

  6. Bruce says:

    Hi Alan,
    Your observations are correct. The news is designed to scare us so that people will look to someone outside themselves for protection. The government will slowly take away your rights (in the name of security), perhaps install cameras on every street corner (with face recognition software) for your protection. The bigger the scare, the more we beg for protection. It it easier to control a scared population. Anyway, I’m rambling. Turn off the television, read the newspapers for the advertisements, listen to music on the radio and surround yourself with positive, uplifting people.

    Cheers,
    Bruce

  7. mark says:

    Hi Alan

    100%! you are absolutely right, 100%, couldn’t agree more.

    In addition to what you said, have you ever noticed that these people wear a facial expression that looks like this ‘poisonious’ material – at least while they’re talking or thinking about it!

    Mark

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