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Television May Be Doing Your Thinking
Lynn Berry
Natural News
Monday, Oct 20, 2008
The world’s biggest leisure activity is watching television. Not walking or reading, not playing games with our children, not engaging with others in outdoor activities. Most of us like to think that television has absolutely no effect on how we think or what we do. We believe that it is a way to relax. Many of us may be surprised to know that television is a controlling medium, relaxing us enough to switch off our analytical brain (the left side of the brain) so that we uncritically, or unlogically, process the information beaming from the television. This means we are less able to make decisions or judgments about what we hear on television.
Our brains undergo a similar process under hypnosis. The similarity between hypnosis and the effects of watching television is unveiled in Dr Aric Sigman’s book called Remotely Controlled. Sigman describes hypnosis as “an altered state of consciousness”; a form of sleepwalking where our mind is influenced by another (the hypnotist or practitioner).
Under hypnosis we become more open to the suggestions of the practitioner and this happens as we are asked to refrain from being critical and relaxed. As we do this, the frontal lobe in our brain alters becoming less connected with the brain so that we switch off. Hypnosis effectively causes a change in the brain so that we use the right side of our brain. What we switch off is the left side used for critical thinking.
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While hypnosis may be considered an extreme or unusual solution to certain conditions, it only takes 30 seconds for us to be in a similar state when we switch on the television. Such were the findings from Professor Herbert Krugman in a study conducted in 1971. His conclusion was that we do not think about the information transmitted via television. In other words the way television communicates is a form of brainwashing.
Left in this state for some time can mean that we become less inventive in problem-solving and less able to concentrate. This suits some environments. In the UK, television is used to keep prisoners quiet. It is regarded as one of the best types of control mechanisms by the General Secretary of the Prison Governors’ Association. Prisoners are subjected to the tranquillising effects of television which subdues behaviour, and the other benefit is that it is a cheap and effective way to do that.
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October 20th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Natural news is a classic case of mixing a lot of great reporting, like this article, with classic NWO propaganda. See the ‘global warming’ articles, and their headline that states that people are starving around the world ‘because Americans eat too much.’
October 20th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Did anyone see that article about Obama’s hack hypnosis techniques? I guess since most people get their only input on politics from the TV it is no surprise that most people seem to act like zombies.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Oh dont worry about that funny feeling on your FOREHEAD!! its just your FRONTAL LOBE being altered and seperating from your brain!!
October 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am
i did number 2, i think its good that thats getting lotsa coverage on the internet but alex jones should put it up here. Obama is using clinical hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming to manipulate the masses in his speeches, WAKE UP http://www.pennypresslv.com/Ob.....eeches.pdf
October 20th, 2008 at 11:20 am
great stuff http://www.free4phoenix.com/BL-UniversalLube.htm
October 20th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Men are in no place to be judging and discerning the thoughts of man. Most people have no understanding of the spiritual realm and its influence on the minds and thoughts of men for good or evil. Everyone should be conscious and trace the source of your thoughts. Ignorant men operating in the spirit realm through use of luciferian technology have opened pandoras box and it will eventually seal the doom of many.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
i cant watch tv anymore
October 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
???
‘MAY’ be doing your thinking !?!!
And it took over 50 years to figure that out!
It’s a GIVEN. Always has been.
I could have told you that, the first time I saw the “Big Picture” or “Meat the Press”
October 20th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
TV doesn’t induce me to do anything I don’t want to do. Ever. But then, I do have at least one functioning brain cell. Or at least I did, the last time I checked.
Plus, I’m just plain cranky by nature. Nothing can change that. Not even a little bit.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Something about a light shining down and an inner voice saying ” I must vote for Barack.” He actually said that shit!!!
October 20th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
#Diddo.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
#7,Ditto.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
#9,Everybody hasn’t seen this site,or read Chomsky.This shit is the truth.Someone earlier mentioned Zombies.The living Dead movies are all about politics.So whether it’s T.V.,or radio,magazines,books,SOMEONE is gonna try to tell you what to think.If you’re not dissenting,you’re not trying.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
well considering that we had to make a choice between cable and internet, ( you can plainly see what won out) because our business is extremely slow. We don’t watch tv at all anymore. How are they going to keep the masses brainwashed when the masses can’t afford to pay for cable anymore?
October 20th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
http://www.thepentacon.com http://www.donaldtrumphair.com http://www.obamacrimes.com check these out.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Tune in to NBC tonight at 8/7 central to see if Jim proposes to Pam on “The Office”,
then stayed tuned for the “Tonight Show” where Jay’s guests include Terry Bradshaw and Kim Kardashian.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I’m sure there’s a masters thesis in here for any psych majors in the peanut gallery.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I refuse to be blind and do nothing anymore. My days of hypnosis is over. God Bless America!
October 21st, 2008 at 12:12 am
As for TV, I’ve been avoiding it like the plague that it is. But sometimes I walk by it and I can hear it calling out to me. “Come, come to me, I will make you feel sooooo gooooood.
The good news, I don’t have cable or satelitte, and as of Feb 09, my tv won’t even work due to the new digital broadcasting.
It’s internet for me baby, lots of reading, a good youtube video now and then, and once in a while an old movie or tv show on one of those internet sites.