{"id":1242,"date":"2011-01-10T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T10:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2020-02-09T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T12:31:33","slug":"stop-watching-tv-the-benefits-of-not-being-a-tv-junkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/stop-watching-tv-the-benefits-of-not-being-a-tv-junkie\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Watching TV: Benefits of not being a TV Junkie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Television is an extraordinarily great invention and has become the #1 form of entertainment in many countries. It allows us to stay informed about recent events, breaking news and entertains us whenever we feel just the slightest strains of boredom. Besides all positive benefits that came with the television there are also a lot of negative aspects of it, especially when it comes to living a conscious life and personal development.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When I was a teenager I was used to spending some hours watching TV daily. I wasn\u00b4t addicted to television and fulfilled all my obligations, however, it was a habit for me to turn on the TV in the evening when I wasn\u00b4t in school or hanging out with my friends. I simply didn\u00b4t know how to spend my time in a more valuable way when I was bored. When I grew older the amount of series that I really liked started to reduce and I became more and more involved with the working world, which reduced my spare time drastically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The least thing I wanted to do was to spend my precious time zapping through TV channels. I started to watch television more consciously, which means that I only turned on the TV when I knew what I wanted to see and for how long.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3907\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3907 \" title=\"Not watching TV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/stop-watching-TV.jpg\" alt=\"Abstinence\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/stop-watching-TV.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.planetofsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/stop-watching-TV-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The benefits of not watching TV are vast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u00b4ve mentioned it already in my article about conscious living that I recently changed my TV consumption habits when I had a few days off, which made me realize some of the most negative disadvantages that television comes with. I did not have had any plans for the day at all at that time, which is why boredom started to occur and the desire for action and entertainment increased, which was the reason why I turned on the TV. Within a few days it started to become more and more complicated for me to pursue my tasks or to stay in touch with my friends. It was easier to turn on the TV and zap through all the different channels, permanently shifting from serials to movies and news. I was totally behaving like a robot and found myself sitting in front of the TV whenever I became bored. You can tell that I was really pleased to have left all the \u201czapping through TV\u201d behind as soon as my vacation ended. From this point on I further reduced my TV consumption and I don\u00b4t feel like I missed out on anything, in fact: I\u00b4ve never looked back and started to live my life more conscious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here are some more benefits of not being a TV junkie and some reasons to stop watching TV (all the time):<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>1. TV lowers your consciousness<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When we watch TV our brain activities start to switch from beta waves (alert consciousness) to alpha waves, which results in lower consciousness. On television, we see shows, serials, and movies that appeal to conscious lowering emotions such as fear, anger, and desire rather than to consciousness raising emotions that would lead us to reflect and question things.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2. TV is addictive<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Television provides an escape from reality not unlike that of drugs or alcohol. A person can slip away into the fantasy world offered by television programs and effectively impede the pressures and anxieties of their own lives. This is similar to &#8216;going on a trip&#8217; induced by drugs or alcohol.&#8221; (<strong>Daniel Hardebeck<\/strong>)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The similarities between being addicted to drugs and watching TV are surprisingly huge and TV addicted people show very similar behaviors like a drug addict. Here is what I\u00b4m talking about:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Escape from reality:<\/strong> Television allows you to enter a fantasy world and lets you forget all your problems and troubles. It helps people to forget about their everyday lives and helps them to enter a joyful state of mind. Certain drugs have the same effects.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Repetition:<\/strong> You just don\u00b4t turn on the TV once in your life and that\u2019s it. You turn it on day after day as life wouldn\u00b4t feel as good without it. Without watching television you feel like as you would miss something. Just like a real addict television viewers are not seeking for a one time experience, but have to repeat it again and again to maintain the positive feelings.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cI could stop watching TV\u201d:<\/strong> Phrases like \u201cI can stop watching television whenever I want to\u201d and \u201cI could live without TV as well\u201d is what cigarette smokers and alcohol drinkers repeat to themselves and their friends as well. However, it is not that easy for them to turn off the TV as activities that do not include to watch TV for hours seem less attractive or more difficult. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>3. TV and its negative side effects:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Habitual TV viewing for many hours a day can have very negative side effects from physical aspects (such as overweight) to social exclusion. Besides that, massive TV consumption will also be an obstacle when it comes to personal development as you simply haven\u00b4t enough time to focus on your personal growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Obesity:<\/strong> Television can be a viscous circle when it comes to overweight: Advertising commercials cause us to become hungry and increase our demand to eat extra snacks while watching TV. Besides that TV does not necessarily motivate us to start physical exercise, which will reduce the amount of calories that are burnt and leads to overweight. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sleep deprivation:<\/strong> Many adults report that they find it quite complicated to sleep after watching television for a long time. I for myself noticed that I start to think about what I have seen all over, which prevents me from sleeping. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Social exclusion:<\/strong> People that are watching TV excessively tend to exclude themselves out of the real life, as it becomes more difficult to stay in touch with friends and to find new friends then watching television. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>4. More Time: <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Watching TV is wasting huge amounts of our precious time, but as soon as you decide to turn off the TV once and for all you will notice the extra time you can gain with this decision. It may seem awkward in the first weeks and you won\u00b4t not know what to do instead, which will let you experience a lot of boredom. But as soon as you discover activities that are more productive than watching TV (exercising, joining the gym, learning a foreign language, learning to cook, etc.) the boredom starts to disappear. Another benefit is that it doesn\u00b4t feels anymore as if time has flown by without making use of it in an efficient way.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>5. No need to schedule your life<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With the decision to turn off the TV there is no need anymore to schedule your life around the TV. Back in the time when I was watching TV regularly I scheduled some parts of my life around television serials and movies, which also influenced the time I went to bed. Instead of having a set time when I go to sleep I waited until the movie had ended until I decided to go to bed. It also happened that I decided to watch the serial that was following thereafter as well and it all reduced the amount of sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Picture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/schmilblick\/252772357\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">schmilblick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever tried to stop watching TV? What are your experiences and how did it influence your happiness and your life in general?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Television is an extraordinarily great invention and has become the #1 form of entertainment in many countries. It allows us to stay informed about recent events, breaking news and entertains us whenever we feel just the slightest strains of boredom. 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