How to have a Clean Mind
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Did you know that the things that you see affect your mind? I'm talking about what we watch on television, movies and the internet. Gross images tend to stay with us for awhile. If I watch a murder mystery on TV late at night I suddenly see some of the images I've just seen on that show after I go to bed. I used to constantly try to protect my kids from seeing shows like that. When they were little we didn't have cable or even an antenna so we couldn't watch TV, we only watched videos. We could check them out at the library and it didn't cost anything. For 6 years we lived with videos that my husband and I chose. They were musicals, Disney movies and family movies. The kids watched no gory movies at all. Here I am today, kids all grown up, watching Law and Order and NCIS. I love the investigative part of these shows, not the pictures of dead bodies.
I have given this some thought and decided that what we put into our minds always comes out in some way or another. It's no different than spending time with someone who swears a lot. If we spend enough time with them it won't be long and we'll be swearing like a trooper! We try to keep our kids from hearing people swear, right? Of course we don't want to hear them swear. If they listen to us swear before long they will be cussing. It's the same thing with what we watch on television or the internet. What goes in will come out...in some way, shape or form!
In order to keep our minds and our kids minds clean we must control what we see. I hardly ever watch the news. I like to watch the weather or sometimes the sports, but the news is often full of stories about crime. No thanks, I'd rather be spared the gory details. I don't even care about reading the newspaper! When my husband watches Three and Half Men, I work on the computer. I ask him to turn down the volume. I get so sick of hearing who Charlie slept with! My boss (ex-boss) told me once that her brother was addicted to pornography. That's not good! I about died one day when I opened an email from a co-worker and there was this naked man with his you know what staring right at me! My teenage daughter just happened to be standing right behind me. It wasn't long and I was on the phone with this lady giving her the third degree about sending me the email!
This is what I mean by keeping a clean mind...Keep your mind clean and your kids minds clean. They won't have nightmares and neither will you! They won't grow up committing crimes that we would rather not talk about, and I'm pretty sure they will grow up to be normal healthy adults!
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What goes in will come out eventually! Appreciate the visit, MLJ.
Great hub, informative and absolutely didactic
Nice to see you, Ubanich and thanks for visiting! I appreciate the kind comment! God be with you, Susieq42
Teach our kids to be positive people. Help them to see the good side of people
I have 5 grown children and they're all good kids with clean minds! I'm proud of them all. None of them were allowed to watch some of the movies that involve the stuff kids watch today. I just couldn't resist writing about what we watch and how it effects us.
SusieQ: what you say here may be true for some, but if one realizes that what they are watching is pure fiction, not real then nothing stays.
I understand but it still doesn't matter whether it's fiction or not. Don't you agree?
At work we all have things that someome will say like a guy would always say "wassup!" in a funny way and after about a week we all said "wassup!" to eachother. We kinda rub off onto eachother. And a lot of times we pick up some pretty bad words too that sound funny the way we say them but you are right...if I didn't hear it or see it every day I think that I'd have a little cleaner mouth. Great hub.
We all do it at times. I don't work now except from home so I don't as much as I used to. I worked with truck drivers so you can imagine what came out of their mouths.
Yes, Susie, TV has changed, it is deliberately more graphic and profane to cater to the public demands for more of the same. In decades past, it was not necessary to show all the grisly details to keep a good story a good story.
It can almost be unrealistic to think that you can shield your loved ones from the messages as we are virtually inundated in them.
You are right! The world as we once knew it has changed. Television and the internet are all about competition and the competition is stiff! Thanks for visiting, Credence.
I said wow a few times while reading this wonderful hub, even though much of it is common sense. The way you write makes common sense seem new.
Good morning, Carlos. I try to add something personal in my hubs. The world has changed, we've got to admit. We no longer live in a "Leave it to Beaver" world. Thanks for visiting. Hope you'll come back soon!
mljdgulley354 Level 7 Commenter 3 months ago
Very well said. I don't think there would be so much drug and alcohol addiction if people would pay attention to what they are allowing their minds to think.