Nightly News... none of my business

by Tracie Louise (follow)

Most of the people in my life like to watch the nightly News and keep up with the events of the world.  Not me.  Ever since High School, I have chosen to find something more enlightening to do with my time each evening.  It didn't start out to be a deliberate and spiritually conscious decision to avoid the News.  I just never enjoyed it.  To me it was the same thing, night after dreary night.  Nothing positive ever seemed to come out of it and it never once left me feeling uplifted or revived.

Being a student of the Law of Attraction, I know that what I chose to put my attention on expands.  I know that I am the creator of my own reality... and therefore by extension... the reality of those around me... and by extension still further, I add to the collective consciousness of the entire planet.



I know that there are those who think that I am being a bit irresponsible by not keeping myself informed, and they feel that perhaps I am adopting a "head in the sand" approach to life.... possibly even being selfish in my determination to remain News free.  However this could not be further from the truth.

Ask yourself this..... does knowing about the bad things that are going on in the World change them?  Does complaining to each other over coffee and at dinner about the horrible state of affairs today, contribute at all to solving the aforementioned problems?

If listening to the negativity, then inspires you to take positive action and actually go out and do something to contribute to the state of the World... then great!! I'm all for that.  But from what I have observed around me, that is not what is occurring (for the most part.. there are of course exceptions).

I may not be able to control the global climate.  I (as an individual) may not be responsible for the earthquake, or the tornado, or the starvation or the etc, etc, ad infinitum.  But I, the individual, can control how I chose to react to such things.  I can control to what extent these things "need" to be in my awareness.  I can control how positive, uplifting, inspiring, or light-hearted, I choose to be... therefore contributing those energies into the collective conscious, hopefully raising the vibration of all concerned.



I have often referred to the News as "none of my business".  And I stand by that assessment.  As the old saying goes, "you are either part of the solution, or part of the problem".  And for me.. knowing and adding my awareness and therefore my attention to the negativity of the world is merely adding to the problem.  But using my focus and my awareness and devoting my limited energies to the most positive and inspirational of things that I can muster... it is my belief that I am doing more to add to the solution, than I could ever do by being part of the "nightly news culture".

If I can do nothing to enhance, improve or rectify a situation.. then there is no point in me knowing about it, contributing to the overall negativity on the planet... I just believe that there are more productive uses of my time.

LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DLokOQZlag

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