The Mentalist
Who pulls the Trigger By Jason D. Varga
External stimulus is a must for human development, helping us learn and to understand who we are and where we fit into the larger picture. Our senses pick up over two million pieces of information every second. This may seem to be an extraordinarily high number, and it would also be overwhelming if this was a conscious process. However, our minds are clever machines. We take in all this information and filter it, we delete what seems unimportant, and we pigeon hole that which is like other experience or knowledge. In fact, we filter this large amount of external stimulus in many different ways to whittle that number down to seven
or eight pieces of information, on a conscious level. On a subconscious level, we still retain a large percentage of that information, and our filter systems aid us by giving us only what it thinks is important, what is relevant, fits in our world and self-view, or that is necessary for our personal safety. We have all heard the saying: “You get what you focus on.” This is largely true. Our intent programs our lives and shapes our reality. What happens though if we are constantly bombarded with the same information, more importantly, the same energy associated with that information?
“We get to a point where we only see negatives all around us and become totally oblivious to the joys of life.”
In today’s modern world, it is difficult to avoid being bombarded on a daily basis information that has a rather negative tone. We see the stories on social media, people complaining about this, that or the other. Mainstream media uses sensationalism to sell news, and there is nothing more sensational than stories filled with horror. Some dreadful event is reported, so the next story must be bigger, better, more dreadful and more worrying. A scene from Stanley Kubrick’s film, A Clockwork Orange comes to mind where the main character is forced to watch terrible and violent scenes over and over for a long period of time, therefore ‘programming’ him to violence. Is that any different to watching or reading depressing news stories every day? It may not be as obvious, it may be a slower process, but it is constant. Photo Credits: Pixabay, J.D.Varga
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