Television and group resonance
Have you ever observed how you feel and what you are thinking after you watch a certain show or movie? Especially after you binge watch? I tend to feel down, depressed, with a different quality in my mental body after I watch certain shows. Or sometimes inspired, faith in humanity restored. I like to watch TV, but I don't always feel great afterwards.
What I’m writing about here isn’t really new, is it? We all have heard about being programmed through media. Whether or not you believe or agree with that, it’s an idea that’s been talked about for a long time. What about the news?
What interests me is the mechanics of how this plays out at the level of our experience, free will and our creative ability to choose.
If you don’t already do this, consider taking a look at your emotional and mental bodies as energy, or observe how you are feeling and thinking after you watch something. You could pick a show, movie, youtube influencer, news, even a play or concert. For the sake of this inquiry, I recommend looking at mass media type of things. But you can do this for everything. The medical clinic you go to, your children’s school, your neighborhood, the grocery store! Anything.
Recently after watching The Pitt, I chose to notice the thoughts, emotion-feeling and general state of being I experienced. I noticed the shape and quality of the thoughts that I was connected with after watching.
Imagine that there is an actual energy form, a little world made up of thoughts, beliefs, feelings, images, tones and a certain band of frequencies, tones, and way that energy flows that is associated. Like a living energy being.
And by choosing to watch that program, we are opening to receive, to plug into, that particular energy body or vortex. Energy is now flowing between our system and that system. It’s now part of the environment that shapes us.
Will it be a permanent fixture? Will we feed ourselves with that particular set of frequencies over and over until they become ours? Or will we disengage, reset, and explore other environments?
I noticed that it was more difficult for me to steer my focus to joy, harder to find notes of joy. In addition, thoughts were buzzing or swirling in an unnatural way for me. I knew the thought-substance I was experiencing was not mine.
As you know, this is one of the benefits of meditation and developing, exploring consciousness. We know our own energy signature. We know our own baseline, our nascent thoughts. We recognize what’s ours and can detect energies that aren’t.
When I looked, there was a big dark grey network of thoughts. I seemed to be dialed into this whole world that wasn’t mine. There was something about it I resonated with or I would not have been attracted to the show. What was I connected with and resonating with? Is it one or all of the following, I wondered:
All of the other humans who were also watching or had watched
The creators, writers, producers
The themes and stories presented
The actors, directors,etc–all the humans involved
The network itself, HBO
As humans, we love to be a part of a group. We are community beings, herd animals. It’s how we are designed to help us thrive and survive. We love to create together, too. All of these instincts are here, in this little inquiry.
What I observed as like big soup of thoughts and feelings with a particular resonance I was keyed into. This was not my natural resonance state. It was off. Not completely foreign, but clearly not mine. In flowing with that, I was allowing these thoughts and feelings into my experience and if I hadn’t been aware they weren’t mine, I would have acted as if they were.
Does this make sense? I’m not sure if this is super obvious or more obtuse.
We are connected to so many environments–some we have more influence over in terms of the tone. One of the things we’ve been working on and talking about in our courses all these years is about being the leader, the one to set the tone.
If we aren’t setting the tone, then you are at the mercy of the other humans who are generating thoughts and feelings all the time, as we all do. We will resonate. You have heard the saying we become like the 5 people we spend the most time with?
Back to the TV inquiry. When I noticed this dark thought substance-matrix I chose to release it. I reset my center and connection to Source, let all that go. It felt better! (of course).
I asked my guides, Is it ok for me to watch TV? They said at that time, it’s OK as long as I clear the effects after and re-find my natural flow, boundary and resonance.
The next night, I watched a film on Gaia about gratitude. There were aspects of that film that I enjoyed and others that I didn’t. For some reason I watched the whole thing. And then I did the same thing. I looked at my energy body afterwards.
The resonance patterns that weren’t mine were there again. Another shape or cloud of energy that extended far beyond my own boundary that I was connected with. Again, I wondered, is this the tone of all the people watching/having watched this film? The ideas and themes presented? The humans involved in its creation? The network itself, Gaia?
You already know what I’m going to say about this. The resonance of the gratitude movie, the colors or frequencies and tones, the thoughts, had a much different quality. The energies were not nascently mine, but as with The Pitt, there is resonance or I wouldn’t have been attracted to watch. I had this feeling of actual human souls that were resonating here, as if I could see faces. I had a feeling of connectedness to that grid.
Objectively, one isn’t better than the other. Energy is energy. People talk about negative and positive. My teacher Duane used to say there is no positive and negative, only upward and downward spiral. What is your experience about this?
I preferred the feeling of lightness, the tones of the gratitude movie and had a feeling that my life would flow better if I chose to be a part of that gridwork (that energy substance and network). But still, it wasn’t essentially mine and I chose to release it, reconnect with Source and the field of all possibilities.
This is not new for me, but my skill is increasingly refined. That feels empowering and fun to me. I’m grateful for the ways I’ve chosen to focus and learn in this life, developing my natural abilities that I may have cultivated in other lifetimes, too. What I know is we all have this ability. I’m curious how many of us are aware and engaging choice at this level. I’m sure there are folks well beyond my abilities with this. And others who have no clue what I’m talking about. I’m curious where we are with this, collectively.
What is your experience? Questions?
