7 Reasons You Should Stop Watching Television

“You cannot turn it off successfully, however, until there is something you want to be or something you want to do, right then and there that is more important than the television.” – Manly P. Hall

The average person (in America or Britain) spends nine years of their life watching TV – with three years wasted on ‘rubbish’ and repeats. Let that soak in for a moment. Now here’s 7 reasons you should not necessarily completely stop watching television but perhaps cut down:

1. IT’S SIMILAR TO BEING ASLEEP

Many people may not realise that when they turn on the television in their home, what they see as a constant flow of images is actually flickering. Although we do not see this consciously, the repetitive pattern of flickering images creates a state that is similar to hypnosis in the television viewer. Studies by researcher Herbert Krugman have shown that within 30 seconds of television viewing, brain waves switch from predominantly beta waves, indicating alert and conscious attention, to predominantly alpha waves, indicating an unfocused, receptive lack of attention. A state of mind not far from sleep…