Freeing your mind is all about finding out what beliefs you hold in your subconscious, bringing them to consciousness and then eliminating the ones that have no compelling evidence or any basis in reality.
Every single thing you expose your mind to affects it.
Your psyche is continually being shaped by all kinds of information that you receive from your environment - and that very much includes television.
It is one of the most effective hypnotic tools out there, having a huge influence on the way you think and your beliefs, and consequently how your life turns out.
The clue is in adverts; why would companies pay enormous sums for them if they did not influence a viewer?
Your subconscious mind, which carries all your memories and beliefs and makes you who you are, is directly programmed by watching television.
Your mind slips into the hypnotic trance state within seconds of watching TV.
This lowers your brainwaves to a lower 'alpha state' commonly associated with meditation and deep relaxation.
This is believed to be caused by the screen flicker and explains why you feel sleepy while watching TV.
Under this trance, your subconscious mind becomes highly suggestible and whatever information you receive from the TV becomes part of your memory pool.
Since beliefs are nothing but memories, this information has the tendency to alter your beliefs or form new ones when it seeps into your subconscious mind.
You might think the remote is in your hand and you are watching the programmes but, in truth, you are the one who is getting programmed.
Our conscious mind is a security guard that ensures only information we already believe in is allowed into the subconscious, so that our pre-existing beliefs get strengthened.
It has the tendency to reject anything else.
The natural consequence of a hypnotic trance state is that your conscious filters are turned off and you are unable to critically analyse information you are receiving.
Moreover, when you watch TV you are unable to do any thinking because information is bombarded continuously into your mind.
You get no time to process what you are watching.
Your conscious mind is eliminated from the equation, and the information you receive continues to become part of your belief system.
Compare this to reading where you can stop, think and reflect after each line. You, the reader, sets the pace and not the book.
TV, on the other hand, keeps on pouring information like wine into the glass of your unconscious mind and before you know it you are drunk.
This is what we see all around us - people intoxicated with the thoughts of others who never give sobriety a chance by reflecting on their drunkenness.
How many times have you done something just because you saw someone do it on TV?
We are hard-wired to copy others.
This is especially important during childhood when our survival depends much on how well we imitate others, such as in eating.
Our entire childhood was essentially a period of hypnosis.
We picked up beliefs from all over the place because our conscious faculty was not fully developed.
We did not have the ability to question anything.
We saw Superman flying, got a Superman cape and tried to take off from the balcony.
We saw wrestling on TV and fought with pillows in the living room.
We saw our favourite gun-carrying heroes and we shot at imaginary aliens in the garden.
This is strong proof that our subconscious mind cannot differentiate between things we see on the screen and reality. That is why as children we believed all we saw on TV and tried to copy it.
Many people never entirely grow out of it.
Countless millions of people are getting programmed daily by what they watch on TV. They might not try to take off from the balcony but their life is a good reflection of what they see on the screen.
Find out what programmes someone watches and you can know a lot about what kind of person they are.
People are trying to live the fictional lives they see portrayed in films, many identify with and copy their favourite celebrities and countless others put total faith in the 'reality' presented by their news channels.
TV is not necessarily bad if you are very conscious and deliberate about the things you watch.
Entertain and educate yourself, but do not allow the programmes to programme you with irrational beliefs.
Always try to keep your critical thinking faculty switched 'ON' so that you do not let others control your thought processes.
