I took a 24-hour break from watching and listening to news stories on social media, podcasts, vlogs, video clips, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, and here’s what happened:
Peace descended 🕊️
Hope broke through 🌤️
Curiosity came back 🔎
I often recommend this type of break to my clients in coaching and training and yet this is the first time, ever, I am joining them 😮 . Yes you have read it correctly. Can you believe it, despite having lived through the 1980’s recession, the 2007 crash, BREXIT, the COVID pandemic, European immigration and fuel crises as a result of wars.. to name but a few.
I have taken a break from mindlessly, ceaselessly and anxiously absorbing what is thrown at me by the media nearly 24/7 as even during sleep I was haunted by what I was absorbing all day long 😪 .
It is all too sad 😢 e.g., Gaza, the Sudan, another child knocked down by a car locally
It is all very disappointing (plus sad) 😞 e.g., climate crisis resulting in gorse fires in Co. Wicklow, the Irish government reneging on their promises to build social housing, increase homecare for the elderly, treat immigrants as people
And it is way too anxiety-inducing (plus disappointing and sad) 😰 e.g., everything coming out of the White House.
I recommend a complete media break to you all and that includes talking about it with your other half over dinner (I did ask if there was any good news and he said no, so it got banned as a topic of conversation 😄 ). And I am extending my break, yes today is my 2nd day and I feel even better – I even find myself not complaining about other things about which I would usually rant away, I am my more positive self and she has not been around of late 😊.
I am weaning myself off the need to be ‘in the know’ and ‘up-to-speed’ on everything that is going on in the world plus thinking and talking about it endlessly. It’s a huge relief, quite energising and rather lovely, try it, nothing to lose, everything to gain even if ‘keeping-up-to-speed’ is your thing.
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