Day 226: Please! Stop with the Advertising!!!

 

 

It is everywhere – Ads have managed their way into almost every part of our daily lives. When I Was a kid the only Ads I saw was on TV. Most of my free time was spent playing outside so when we were young were not bombarded with the magnitude of Ads people see today.

We do not have a TV anymore, but I still see plenty ads everyday even though I live on a farm. When I turn on my radio in the car – There are Ads. As I drive through town – There are Ads. When I am on Facebook – there are Ads. When I look at news on the Internet – There are Ads. When I do a Google Search – There are Ads. When I download a free app for my phone – There are Ads. Checking emails – Spam Ads. Receiving SMS – Spam Ads.

It’s really getting out of hand. As a kid when I went to watch a movie on the big screen the only Ads they showed were future releases of movies. Now there are all kinds of Advertisements before the movie even starts. They are even Advertising in Schools! On School buses, in gymnasiums, on book covers, and even in bathroom stalls.

“School advertising also appears under the guise of educational TV: Channel One. Currently available in 12 000 schools, Channel One consists of 10 minutes of current-events programming and 2 minutes of commercials. Advertisers pay $200 000 for advertising time and the opportunity to target 40% of the nation's teenagers for 30 seconds.⁸⁹ According to a recent government report, Channel One now plays in 25% of the nation's middle and high schools⁸¹ and generates profits estimated at $100 million annually.^{89” - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/6/2563.full}

Sneaky – Very Sneaky. Now a days when a child has the ability to hold a cellular device or tablet they are exposed to many, many advertisements. That’s children as young as 2 or 3 years old that are already being targeted al for companies to make profit. And Advertisements have become extremely effective over the years – you see it and you are like “YES – I NEED THAT”, but you did not need it before you watched the Ad.

The problem is that children and people are not educated on how Advertising works – How it plays the emotions and feelings and how it actually directs you to do what the ad tells you to. Before you can do that you need to understand how emotions and feelings direct you and to see how you are actually not the one who directs your life. How do you do that? Find out in my next blog.

Day 62 - Love is Fear

 

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to see that love is not the opposite of fear, but that it is exactly fear

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use love as a disguise for my fear so that i can live in ignorance - not realizing that I am living a life of fear

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to when i say 'I Love You' i am actually saying 'i fear you' - that i fear that person leaving me and in saying i love you i am reaffirming my fear and making sure i do not lose the other person

I forgive myself that i have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that when i say i love you to my children i create this fear within them and keep the fear cycle going and making sure they will always live a life of fear

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that Love is keeping me  from changing as it is fear  - and that in that fear of change i will use love to justify my actions and the world by saying all we need is love - not realizing that all the love in the world has not changed anything but that the world is getting worse all because we are fear

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that all I am is fear - that my parents taught me and kept me in line with fear - that all my actions and thoughts are based on fear - that the only reason christianity exists is because of fear and that all religion is based on fear - and that the world is based on fear to keep people ignorant.

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to see fear as normal and part of human nature and that because everybody fears is ok for me to have fear as well - not realizing that this is a limitation and another excuse not to face my fears and stop all fears

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to realize that I created love as the perfect excuse so that i can believe and feel as if im doing the right thing because it feels good and it is considered good to love and that to love is very easy  - all so that i do not have to face myself and my fears and that i do not have to do anything to change myself to change the world

I commit myself to see the evilness of love that all it is is fear

I commit myself to realize that i used love to disguise my fears so that i do not have to face them and myself

I commit myself to stop saying I love you as a point of fear of losing someone 

I commit myself to stop the cycle of abuse as fear and to stop fear within myself so that i do mot teach my children or others how to fear

I commit myself to not use fear as a form of control and to see that religion is used this way where fear is used as control

I commit myself to not accept the belief that fear as part of human nature and that it is normal - but to stop this excuse and limitation by facing my fears and stop them and become self directed and not love/fear directed

I commit myself to stop using love/fear as an excuse not to change but to instead walk the fear/love and walk right into the fires of the hell i created within me and the world to face all fears so that I can put out the fires/fears that keep me from becoming real