Let's Fight
Few weeks ago I went to see Jackie Chan's movie "The forbidden kingdom", I indeed liked the movie so much and I never improbable to come out of it feeling eager to resume my martial arts training. Since I watched that movie I started watching Aikido videos approximately every night in order to restore back my old skills.
This was indeed weird for me since I stopped the aikido training three years ago because of wanting to free more time for the gym. It was clear that Jackie Chan's movie has programmed my mind in such a way that I became eager to do something that I stopped doing years ago.
Television
Fortunately aikido is secure and is even great but what if I saw a movie like "saw Iv" then felt like wanting to cut my best friend into two halves? absolutely I wasn't going to do this but I am sure that watching such movies over and over changes something in the brain and the in the way we think.
Effects of television addiction
Television addicts exist in any place from the Far East to the Usa. Those population watch television on daily basis for three hours or more and sometimes have to drop prominent activities just to be able to watch television for few more hours. The dangers of television addiction are indeed bigger than what you could imagine and the following few examples are a sample of what television addiction can do to your life:
* Programming your mind: Just as watching Jackie Chan's movie programmed my mind the movies that you watch will program your mind too whether you wanted it or not. Watch a lot of drama and you will become a cry boy, watch a lot of performance movies and you might become violent or watch a lot of nightmare movies and you might start to believe in ghosts. Changing your beliefs about life : Why do population want to get rich in two weeks? Why do keywords such as "How to become a billionaire over night" are among the beloved search keywords? Why do population feel indeed bad when they get rejected for the first time?? Movies have taught us that good guys fail, face problems but ordinarily solve them before the end of the movie. It never takes the Good guy more than few days to move from poverty to wealth, from being unknown to fame and from being sad to being indeed happy. When your beliefs about life convert you start to assume that life events should be similar to the events you saw in the movies but unfortunately this only results in disappointment.
* Depressing You: Watching television for extended periods of time have been linked to depression. Moreover, this depression results in being unable to stop watching Tv and so a cycle of depression and television addiction is developed.
* Makes you feel guilty : ordinarily television addiction is linked with delaying prominent tasks or wasting time that should be allocated to your family. This results in feelings of guilt that keep increasing in intensity as you keep watching.
* Negative thinking: 99% of the news that appears on Television is negative. Lots of movies and Tv series have negative messages embedded within. Being subjected to such negative messages and news results in making you feel bad and in even making you a negative thinker.
Final words about television addiction
As you saw, television addiction is indeed bad and can effect in dramatic changes in your mood and life style. The problem with television addiction is that it might not appear as perilous as nicotine or drug addiction but when taking a deeper look you will find that it could have a damaging impact on your life. Break this habit before it breaks you.
