The Good Witch of the North<\/em>).<\/p>\n“They’re telling me about a fire… that’s bad! Oh no, a fender bender… I don’t want to know that there’s ice on the roads, because then I’ll focus on getting in an accident! Arghh, a product recall! I don’t want to know that anything I may have purchased might be defective!\u00a0 Oh no, interest rates are up and so is unemployment? \u00a0How can this be???\u00a0 I’m melting… I’m withering away!… I’m becoming — ackk! — NEGATIVE!!! It’s DISGUSTING!”<\/p>\n
We like to call these people News Hermits<\/strong>.<\/p>\nYou know how a hermit hides away from the world? Well, News Hermits hide away from the news.<\/p>\n
They can’t deal with the fact that somebody somewhere in the world — maybe in their own community — might have temporarily been the victim of something or other. And by avoiding hearing about it, they become victims themselves… victims of the media. Victims of the news. And victims long term, unlike the people on the news.<\/p>\n
By becoming disgusted with what they see, hear or read, they puke their power away<\/em>.<\/p>\nThey’re essentially saying, “I’m not strong enough to watch this story and still remain strong in my convictions and integrity. The story is more powerful than I am, and I intend to keep it that way.”<\/p>\n
This is what we said about the practice in one of our updates last year:<\/p>\n
We’re always more than amused when we have readers who write in and throw the the whole “I’m intelligent, therefore I don’t watch TV” B.S. at us. The implication, of course, being, “I don’t, so why should you?” Usually the folks who take this EXCESSIVE action do it because they don’t have the internal wherewithal, nor the mental fortitude, to discipline themselves to watch selectively. There’s a reason there’s a channel selector; there’s a reason there are hundreds of channels for hundreds of interests. Yet, the “TV is Beyond Me” droids don’t get that.<\/p>\n
It’s no different than the person who continually signs off as “Namaste,” using it as a protective mechanism that also makes the person feel bigger than they are… with a sense of importance over the rawness and frailties of life.<\/p>\n
This post is for those of our readers who “get” that it’s not TV that’s the problem. TV, instead (and depending on which SHOW you have the power to watch or not watch), is a medium for showing the mindset of the masses in the grandest ways possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How about this point of view<\/strong><\/span>: It’s wonderful that the majority of stories on the news are what some people tend to label “negative”, because that’s what makes the cut as “newsworthy” for the day in the first place.<\/p>\n“Newsworthy” is anything unique<\/span> or out of the ordinary<\/span> that affects your life… if it happens a lot, it’s not newsworthy. As an example, when one person in a city of 600,000 gets mugged, that’s news, because it’s only .00016% of the population that it happened to. The fact that millions of people had a great day today is not news, because it’s the norm everywhere; the day that people having a good time becomes news is the day we know the world is in a really bad place!<\/p>\nBesides, there are plenty of so-called “positive” feel-good stories also covered in the news — people helping people, volunteering time and energy, getting together for a common goal, etc.<\/p>\n
But hey, look… even if the puppet masters have an agenda to show you as much negativity as possible, to break down your willpower the way a cowboy tames a wild horse, you’ve only let them win if you refuse to watch the news.<\/p>\n
That’s admitting that “they” and their agenda are more powerful than you!<\/p>\n
Of course, it goes without saying that we’re not recommending you spend hours and hours each day consuming media or watching TV (the “electronic income reducer”), regardless of what it is you choose to take in. Everything in excess can be detrimental.<\/p>\n
We just believe wholeheartedly that taking a stand and refusing to hide from the goings-on in the world around you is much healthier than living in fear, or feeling like you need to censor your experience of life by avoiding certain aspects of it.<\/p>\n
Feel free to comment below…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nYour Partners in the Quest For
\nLiving a Life Without Limits,<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Barry](\"http:\/\/www.lwlurl.com\/content\/LWL_artwork\/images\/signatures\/barry_heather\/sig_B&H_7.1_blue.gif\" "\\"Barry")
<\/p>\n
P.S.<\/strong> By the way, read our report titled “The Catch 22 of Financial Wealth<\/a>” yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve talked about this before, but we think it’s high time we brought it up again… especially since a counterpart of ours (a personal development products marketer) just sent out the following email: “I’m not sure if you know this about me but I try to\u00a0avoid watching or reading the news as much as possible. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,205,372],"tags":[432,522,433,431],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-thinking","category-news","category-personal-responsibility","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-sensational","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.expertbusinesssource.com\/articles\/blog\/1260000326\/20090911\/head-in-the-sand.gif\" "\\"head")
Self-help teachers, motivational speakers, and\u00a0personal development\u00a0authors all spout the same\u00a0mind-numbed rose-colored-glasses<\/em> message repeatedly (more often, it seems, than TV runs commercials, product endorsements and marketing messages): “Avoid the news like a plague, because it’s all bad stuff<\/strong>!”<\/p>\n