Who do you believe?

From a child we teach ourselves who we can trust and who we can't. We sometimes go on gut feeling but often its passed down from our families who we should rely on for trusted information. We have to have that kind of process or we would never believe anyone or anything and life would be really hard, although we would at least check everything out thoroughly before putting it into our mind for future reference.

One of the sources we have come to trust so much is the media especially the television and particularly news programmes. If we hear it on the news it must be true, we quickly process it and take it into our daily lives, we use it in conversations and it is part of our decision making process in everything we do.

Before you process this news without a thought, consider what slant the reporter or producer has put on this item. Were they in a good mood when they did the work, do they have a political slant for or against it. Ask yourself deep down whether your really believe it. This is not an attack on the media but as you know at the moment nearly every story is doom and gloom. How you decide to process that news item will have an effect on your daily life and those around you.

I do not watch or read the news in the morning as it can put me in a bad mood for the day. I flick onto a news website for the highlights (normally lowlights!) and see if anything really, really major has happened that I must know about and apart from that I live very happily in my world where everything seems and feels great.

Have a fantastic day!