You’re in better company with the TV off, but it requires getting friendly with yourself
- just hanging out with yourself without filling it with some distraction
- There is an art to it (called Meditation)
A entire new way of looking at reality
- Includes understanding innerconnectedness and complexity
- Having reverence and awe of nature
- Being in your body as a sacred experience?
- An entirely new way of perceiving what it means to be human that can be universally related to without creating unnecessary resistance or fear.
- Nothing sparks fear in people like the sense that something is going to take over our minds or is going to give us belief systems contradictory to the ones we grew up with.
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Expand the field of your possibilities in relating to discomfort, anxiety, boredom
- How often do you believe you need something to be complete right now?
- Watch in your life when the impulse comes up in
your mind to turn on the TV, pick up a magazine, eat, smoke, etc.
- We fill up with 3 hours of TV maybe not for feeling of being complete but for just getting through the evening