Feeling the Energy of Pictures

[Brittany]

I've never really done anything like this, though I do notice a change in energy patterns when I look at certain pictures. Some sights and colors cause my body to tingle all over. Generally, images of nature and the peaceful interaction of people within it tend to have the strongest positive effect on me. Pictures of violence, pollution or highly cluttered environments can actually mess me up pretty bad. Once I made the mistake of looking through a book of war photos...I got incredibly upset because it was like I could feel the pain right through the images, as if I was right there and it was happening to me. The energy was still that concentrated. I also have this problem when it comes to television and movies. I can't watch anything that depicts graphic violence because my empathy seems to extend straight through the screen, even if the characters it is happening to are not real. My husband took me to see Halloween one year, and I cried uncontrollably for about 30 minutes afterward because of all the hatred and pain that had inspired that movie...that had travelled straight from the writer's fingertips as he typed the script all the way through the actors and onto the screen. He thought I was going to break up with him right then...not pretty.

I think many people are unaware of all the messages we are being bombarded with by the media, in everything from TV to video games to the internet to billboards...many of which are trying to desensitize us to violence and convince us that we need to revert to animal aggressiveness in order to maintain our sense of peace. There is also the constant degredation of the human image...attempts to convince us we are not good enough as we are...we need to enhance our bodies, our technology, everything... Even if a conscious recognition doesn't take place, our subconscious minds are storing all of it. A big fat conspiracy if you ask me, but I digress. It seems I've climbed up on my soap box again. I usually just leave the TV off.