Television & The Law of Attraction - By: Richard D. Blackstone

The law of attraction tells us that you bring into your life that which you put your attention on. The secret here is about what you are putting your attention on. This is not a religious or spiritual question; it is merely a query into your priorities. We live in a society that uses the television as a big part of our experience. It begins by using the television to get our news every day. The law of attraction tells us that by watching the news every night we are bringing a lot of fear into our lives. So what else is influencing us? The news is over so we put our attention on the next phase of our nightly educational forum, the situation comedy. In our never-ending quest for enlightenment we have added another venue to consume our attention and compete for our time and that is “Reality TV.” Is this an oxymoron or just moronic? (Sorry for that judgment call but I couldn't help myself) What in the world is going on? It's bad enough that we get our exercise vicariously through watching sports on television, but now we have to live our lives vicariously through a venue called a “reality show?” Has the world gone crazy or am I just over-reacting? We get our “news” in glossed over stories with ten second sound bites from people who were not there when this “news” happened. We understand that much of what is deemed newsworthy has to do with Hollywood actors. We are subjected to situation comedies that are supposed to be funny by accentuating what is wrong about people and how we should keep laughing at the same jokes we have heard for thirty years. We are so inept at this that they have to provide canned laughter to tell us when they have told a joke. We watch people on reality shows that are about as unreal as an unscripted play can be and then we finally get to watch the adult entertainment portion of our nightly viewing pleasure. This adult entertainment usually comes to us in a drama format that typically involves lots of violence, killing, very rich people, lots of sex from all the characters, and some plot thrown in for good measure. I have often told people that it would be easy to be a Hollywood scriptwriter. You just get together with a few people, have a few drinks and start thinking up anything you want, write it down in dialogue format and you have a show. Some shows are even easier than that. You just get in a cop car with a camera and start shooting (the camera, not the cop's guns). As we come to the end of our waking day, we can reflect on how the life process has played out and this life of yours, that is meant to be lived, has actually been a series of predictable, almost scripted, laundry lists of what our society keeps telling us is the “right way” to live your life. Is it your experience that everything we call news on the television, radio or newspaper is relayed to you in accurate and truthfully depicted form? Do you think about your beingness during the day? Do you ever consciously think about who you are being at any particular point during the day? Are you more concerned with what you are doing? What is more important to you, what you are being or what you are doing? Nobody on the television or radio or newspaper is going to ask you these questions. You have to ask them of yourself. Is this something that is part of your daily routine? Are you consciously intending to “be healthy?” During your day, you spend much of your time ingesting different things into your body. Some of these items could be called food and some of them would not pass a test of being food. Are you conscious of what you eat? Are you conscious of what you drink? Are you consciously being healthy? This was billed as a typical day (very generalized) in the life of a typical working person who typically spends about eight hours of these precious moments of life in a non-active, non-conscious sleeping form. So what is the point of all this? Well, as we discussed earlier, you attract into your life that which you put your attention on. If you spend approximately half of your waking hours listening to messages of violence, hate, greed, war, vicarious sex, legal and illegal drugs, how beer improves your life, how life is mostly drama, how smoking is cool, how everybody loves fast food, how people who talk unfavorably about the government are unpatriotic, how we should all have SUV's, how money is the symbol of success and how you will never be happy without the latest, most modern piece of worthless material possessions that clutters your life, then you are drawing those conditions and attracting these situations and attitudes into your life. That is a lot of external stimuli that you are subjecting yourself to daily. Ask yourself this question: “Does this serve