Media regularly consumed leaves life-altering imprints on the human mind and soul. For better or worse it molds a person mentally, emotionally, and spiritually into its own image.
Little by little, day by day, you think, speak, feel, and act more and more like the media that you continually consume and allow to build up inside your memory, your subconscious mind, and your soul. Be careful what you listen to, scroll through, watch, and read because it is all puling you to be like it.
In a society that’s awash with media that is stressful, accusative, anxiety provoking, vulgar, violent, sexually obsessed, dishonest, deceptive, and perverted, people don’t even know that they’re trapped in its dangerous undertow. They just go with the flow of mental, emotional, and spiritual trash that surrounds them and try to drown their sorrows in diversions, distractions, denials, alcohol, and prescription (and illegal) drugs.
I intentionally choose the media that I allow to change how I view the world. You can too. Before you watch, read, scroll through, or listen to any type of media, ask yourself; “Do I want to become like what is being presented in this media?” If your answer is no, don’t go there. Reject it and run away from it!
Instead, make a conscious decision about how you want to think, feel, believe, and behave. Then search for media that matches the way you want to be. Sometimes it is hard to find because Western culture produces so much more destructive media than it does constructive media. When you locate uplifting, inspiring, inner peace producing, wholesome media devour it day and night.
Some of the media I have devoured and allowed to shape and mold me throughout my adult life is practical self-help books (Anthony Robbins is one of my favorite authors), movies, series, music, and videos that have a message that lifts me up, encourages, and strengthens me (my favorite is Brother Sun, Sister Moon), books by Catholic mystics, Eastern Orthodox monks, and Spirit-led Protestants (the Philokalia is my favorite), and the media that has brought (and continues to bring) me the greatest inner healing, joy, peace, and power is the Bible (especially the New Testament). I’ve only missed a few days reading it since I was 19.
Sanctification (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
How is your soul?
Empty or whole
Or just so-so?
Life’s greatest goal
Is a pure soul.
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