News agencies’ business model is built upon selling advertising. To sell enough advertising, they need your attention for as many minutes or hours per day as they can get. Unfortunately, news agencies understand how the brain works; therefore, they exist to peddle FEAR because fear keeps us paralyzed and controlled. It keeps the viewer in survival, or fight or flight. If that’s where you want to live, that’s your choice. But if not, then, wouldn’t it be better to turn off the negative stimuli? To put it bluntly, the news and social media industries use weapons-grade limbic hijacking to keep us coming back for more.
Choosing the intention to have our thoughts, words, and deeds align with producing joy and happiness is not “fake positivity.” It is an active choice to live with a conscious intention to create the life of our dreams.
To truly get to the place where you do not react negatively to the news, you will need to become familiar with some of your signature actions and behaviors; you will make the unconscious, conscious, and the invisible, visible. You need to become familiar with your beliefs. Beliefs are a driving factor in our subconscious programming and conditioning that produce our reality.
When you become conscious of the thoughts, actions, and emotions you no longer want, you begin the process of unlearning them and replacing them with what you do want. This is the process of ascension or self-mastery.
The responsible citizen dilemma forces us to strike a delicate balance between staying informed and cultivating happiness. ‘Fake positivity’ is not the answer; rather, it’s about aligning our thoughts, words, and actions with the emotions of joy and happiness. The journey toward self-mastery and conscious living is ongoing, but it’s a journey worth taking.
By disconnecting from the fear-driven narratives of the news and embracing a conscious intention to elevate our own lives, we become catalysts for positive change in the world. So, I invite you to take a moment to reflect on your choices, to consider the impact of your thoughts, and to join the ranks of those who are shaping a brighter, more harmonious future. The power to become the best version of yourself is within your grasp. Your journey begins now.
For me, it’s been a journey to lose my subconscious fear of rejection, my use of perfection to mask my insecurities, my mighty mouse syndrome to save the day, my self-judgment, and probably a lot more but who’s counting? I have made progress, but it is an ongoing process.
By the way, I do not watch the TV news. I do not even know how to use the remote! I do selectively read some news reports to stay informed, and then return to my purpose — to contribute to raising the consciousness of the planet by choosing joy and happiness.
Editor’s note: Murko will teach a course in regulating stress and unlearning negative patterns, January 5 — 7 2024. The course title is “Change Your Mind – Tools for creating the results you desire.” Contact Kripalu for more information and to register.
