Quitting Television Can Now Significantly Improve The Quality Of Your Life

Part One - The Problem Of Television

Note: This is Part One in a four part series. This is post one in my "Superhuman Achievement" column. I hope you'll be joining me. --Alistair.

Why quitting television is a good thing

Television is a pollutant that has been forced upon our society be greedy marketers. When you take a good look at the history of television, how TV advertising developed, and just what affect it's all had on modern society, you can't help but wonder why this pervasive media instrument is largely ignored when it comes to pointing the fingers at the perils of modern living.

Television is pervasive and harmful, especially to children.

Most articles focus on the influence of televised violence on childrens' (aggressive) behavior, their cognitive and school performance, as well as health issues. It seems as if television viewing is rather detrimental to the developing mind in providing only passive input and a somewhat contorted view of reality, e.g. showing violent acts but not their consequences. In addition, playing time spent outdoors is reduced in favor of watching TV. This reduced physical activity plus an inappropriate diet often lead to children being overweight or in bad shape.

• Watching television affects your brain in negative way.

  One of the principal tools in the mind manipulation arsenal is television, the cultural arm of the established industrial order. Television, the drug of the nation, maintains, stabilises and reinforces ideas, attitudes and behaviours through its programming and advertising. When we watch TV, the brain's left hemisphere, which processes information logically and analytically, tunes out. This allows the right hemisphere of the brain, which processes information emotionally and non critically, to function unimpeded. While the negative impacts of particular television progrrns and advertisements are well known, the overall long4erm effects of watching television are equally as dangerous.

• Risks to childhood development are extreme
• Television threatens the whole social order because so many parents have replaced parenting with passivity by putting their children in front of TV to placate them
• People have demonstrably shorter attention spans due to the influx of TV programming -
  
• According to Terrence McKenna, Television was a drug as potent as heroin, with even more devestating effects. -
  
  - "Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence."

I can continue on with the facts, but I think it suffices to say that anyone who has watched too much television has experienced the same side effects that I was having. At some point, your concentration abilities become lacksadaisical, you may experience low energy, and if you go too far, you may end up with some rather disturbing psychological symptoms, much like I was experiencing.

My TV Quitting Story

In the next few posts of this series, I'll lead you through the steps I took to go from an overweight TV junkie who was fired from his job, dumped by his girlfriend, and evicted from his apartment, to an actual "net-worth" millionaire who is now married to the woman of his dreams, and living every day of his life as if every one of his wishes automatically comes true.

The miracle of quitting TV is so intense, and I'm so literally grateful for the gift, that I cannot help but share with everyone out there, in the hopes that they too will benefit from my discovery. We will walk through each of the steps hand-in-hand, on our way to building a better, TV-free future. Hopefully, you can learn the simple steps I took to make TV watching a thing of the past. Look for my next post in the coming days. Make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates.