Let’s talk about entertainment.
For most people, the usual comes to mind: movies, news, social media, funny videos, porn.
Entertainment is the trade between consuming something for pleasure and paying for it by spending your energy without creating anything yourself.
It’s a one-way street.
That’s why people are exhausted after spending too much time scrolling or binge watching a show.
The lesser known forms of entertainment are overthinking, constant day-dreaming, dissociating, attaching stories and judgments to your life situation and obsessing over them, creating new identities and labels for yourself and others.
All of these things keep you stuck in the mind, and the mind feeds off our life force if we let it.
The mind LOVES our body’s energy and latches onto anything that artificially produces more outrage, fear, anger, disgust etc. in ourselves.
It’s an addiction to stress hormones.
And the majority of people are totally unaware of it.
Because it feels GOOD. People love adversity! Soap operas! Drama!Those activists shouting for peace? They wouldn’t last a day in a socially coherent, embodied community because they’re addicted to always shouting and fighting some cause.
This low frequency vortex has been artificially planted into modern society by mass media. We have luxuries and tech and abundance which past centuries never imagined! Yet the collective is depressed, disconnected from our bodies, and emotionally miserable.
Entertainment isn’t just about its form either. It’s also about the transmitted frequency.
Some movies, music, and people online inspire you and inject energy instead of only taking it.
Your body is the tuning fork here: how do you feel after engaging with someone or something? Depleted or energized?
If you’re predominantly spending your life force, you won’t have any energy left to create.
If you can’t create, you’re stagnant.
If you’re stagnant, you’re wasting your life.
You’re swimming against the current here. The temptations are everywhere. It’s so easy to numb out. Choosing not to feed the dark vortex is hard. It means giving up on the “quick fix”. It means staying in your body when it’s uncomfortable.
This practice requires deep attention and commitment.
You’ll go off-road and life pushes you back in line.
And the more you open, the more committed you are, the faster the corrections.
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