Sunday, March 1, 2015

Oh my gosh. Yes!

I don't think I've ever read anything so close to how I feel about this channel and getting outside of yourself to escape your own feelings...a terrific article:

Some people turn to psychopharmacology when they are blue. I prefer Turner Classic Movies.When disappointment has brought you low, or sadness has colonized you, or fear has conquered your imagination, you experience a contraction of your horizon. Your sense of possibility is damaged and even abolished. Pain is a monopolist. The most urgent thing, therefore, is to restore a more various understanding of what life holds, of its true abundance, so that the bleakness in which you find yourself is not all you know. The way to break the grip of sorrow and dread is to introduce another claimant on consciousness, to crowd it out with other stimulations from the world. Sadness can never be retired completely, because there is always a basis in reality for it. But you can impede its progress by diversifying your mind.


The rest is here and it's wonderfully written:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-turner-classic-movies.html?_r=0

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