Hello world, welcome to the addiction of the constant news feed. This is your life.  What  you turn and plug into it will feed your perception of life today.  So what are you “plugging”  into?   Fox, CNN, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Spotify.  Is this your world?   Is it constantly relevant?  Is it a choice or bad habit to be constantly checking in?  Maybe a little of both.   Why does our perception matter so much any way.  Well………….it determines just about everything that comes out of your mouth!!! If you want to know what your future looks like…………listen to yourself talk.  I am serious.
What do you say about your own life?  Your health, your kids, your job, your friends, your relatives?  Your country, your politics, your world????  Your music, your art.  Perception plays a big role in how we see our daily lives.   Think about it.  How do you see your world?

Do you see a world filled with love, balance, harmony and at peace?  Or do you see your: world filled with hate, violence and anger? Do this exercise with me.  If you say you see it filled with the later, then I say you NEED TO UNPLUG! How do you feel when everything around you is calm and in balance and your day just flows?  How do feel when you turn on the news? How do you feel when you listen to the politicians?  Are your buttons being pushed?   Are you jumping on the band wagon?? It is All

about perception.  What you constantly think about about and listen to will drive your emotional well being.

We have to take back our lives.  It is as simple as that.  We create our own reality.  I know the world can feel messed up and I am being very polite right now.   Sometimes I feel like the inmates are running the asylum.  I refuse to engage.   If you know me, you know I do not watch TV.  Especially 24/7.  I tape the shows I am interested in and let the rest of the media be for everyone else.   It is just, for the most part too negative for me. I do not care who is thinner, richer or who has shinier hair. Who is bopping who.  I do not  want to listen to the political bashing.  It is just the same story over and over again. Like a record skipping… Blah, blah , Blah.  I am surprised that people get obsessed with it.  Try to remember that negativity  “sells.” By being a participant, you are buying into it.  I am not being Pollyanna here I am being realistic about perception. Don’t let CNN or Fox create your world for you.   Only you can determine that.

I would rather read, take a walk, visit with my neighbors and friends.  Connect with either myself or real people in real life.   When I do, I feel like my life is balanced and centered. I am calm.  I am choosing to be unplugged from the constant feed.  I see how at peace the world is for the most part.  We can believe that the whole world is at war with itself or we can believe that 99% of the time we are in harmony.  We can decide our perception of things.   When you look for the good in people it shows up in the most unexpected ways. When you are at peace with yourself you can bring peace and joy to others.   No” hater “walks into a room and everyone turns around to look and engage with them.  It is the opposite. When the light heart happily go lucky show up at a party , everyone wants to get a chance for a hug and hello.  You see light is the opposite of darkness.   Today see the peace.  Go for a walk and look for it .  Call a friend and feel  it.  Stop and be friendly with a neighbor.  My whole life I have been amazed at how  well the world actually functions in peace.  I am a Air Force brat. We had to live together as black and white and Hispanic.  When we lived overseas the prejudice was that we were the Americans and were told “Yanks go home.” I never let it bother me.  Folks everyday we have the opportunity to regroup and recenter by just unplugging from the negativity and understanding we are responsible for our own perception of the world.    Let’s collectively take back our power,  stop spreading the hate.  Love yourself enough to be the light and not the darkness.

Engaging in the rhetoric might be entertaining or thought provoking for a while, just be careful that it does not become a new belief. That is how patterns occur.  Let the words that flow from your lips be how great life really is. We have a responsibility to ourselves and future generations to start spreading the love and all our blessings.   UNPLUG.  Regroup.  Listen to yourself speak.  If you want a bright future go out there and bring it!!

Your perception creates Your reality.  Stop yourself from spewing what the commentators want you to believe so that you tune in and pay their advertisers.  We collectively are better than this.  If you want to live in a beautiful world Be a part of the Beauty in it.  We have real issues in our world, the best way to heal it is one person at a time.  Forgive everyone.

Who is better than You?  NOBODY