How TV influences your

mind through hypnosis

March 27, 2015 by Hanan Parvez
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can
free our minds.
Bob Marley
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Think about it: Will I be exaggerating if I say that a part of
your behaviour and personality is shaped by the things that you see on the
screen? Definitely not! It is naive to think that television is a harmless pastime activity
that doesn’t affect your psyche in any way.

Every thinking person knows that anything 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 includes television.

Television is one of the most effective hypnotic tools out there. It can have a huge
influence on the way you think, the beliefs that you hold and consequently how your
life turns out.
Your subconscious mind, which carries all your memories and beliefs and makes you
who you are, is directly programmed by watching television.
The flicker-induced hypnotic state
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 state of 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’re watching the programs but, in truth, you are the
one who is getting programmed.

Impaired conscious filtering

Freeing your mind is all about finding out what beliefs you are holding in your
subconscious, bringing them to consciousness and then eliminating the ones that have
no compelling evidence or any basis in reality.

 Our conscious mind is a security guard that ensures only information that we already
believe in is allowed into the subconscious mind so that our pre-existing beliefs get
strengthened. It has the tendency to reject any information that does not match our
pre-existing belief systems.

The natural consequence of a hypnotic trance state is that your conscious filters are
turned off and you are unable to critically analyze the information that you are
receiving.

Moreover, when you watch TV you are not able 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 that you
receive continues to become part of your belief system.

Compare this to reading where you can stop, think and reflect after each line that you
read. You, the reader, sets the pace while you are reading 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 already drunk.

And that’s what you see all around you- people intoxicated with the thoughts of other
people who never give sobriety a chance by reflecting on their drunkenness.

How TV influences us
How many times have you done something just because you saw someone doing it on
TV?

We are hard-wired to copy those around us. This was especially important during
childhood when our survival depends much on how well we copied actions that others
around us did such as eating for instance. 
I’ve said before that 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 our beliefs and actions.

We saw Superman flying, got a Superman dress and tried to take off from the
balcony. We saw wrestling on TV and fought with pillows in the living room, tearing
the poor cottony things apart.

We saw our favourite gun-carrying heroes and were shooting imaginary aliens in your

courtyard.

This is strong proof of the fact that our subconscious mind cannot differentiate
between things that we see on the screen and reality. That’s why we believed all that
we saw on TV when we were kids and tried to copy what we saw. 

But some people just never grow out of it. Sure you can’t do anything to convince
your subconscious mind that what you see on TV isn’t real, just like you can’t be
‘not-scared’ while watching a really scary horror movie alone in the night.

But what you can do is bring your conscious mind into the equation and only accept
that information which agrees with your common sense and reason.

Millions of people are daily getting programmed by the stuff 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 TV programs a person watches and you can know a lot about what kind
of a person he is. 
Millions of people are trying to live the fictional lives they see being portrayed in the
films, many are identifying with their favourite celebrities and copying them and
countless others are daily accepting the versions of reality their news channels present
them with.
Choose what you see
TV isn’t necessarily bad if you are very conscious and deliberate about the things that
you watch. Entertain and educate yourself, but don’t allow the programs to program
you with irrational beliefs.

Always try to keep your critical thinking faculty switched ‘ON’ so that you don’t let
others control your thought processes

Hanan Parvez
Hi, I’m Hanan Parvez (MBA, MA Psychology), founder and author of
PsychMechanics. I’ve written 270+ articles about human behaviour
on this blog with over 3 million views and 80k monthly visitors. My
work has been featured on Forbes, Business Insider, Reader’s
Digest, and Entrepreneur.

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