Entertainment

A good book, a movie, an engrossing story told, a daydream...entertainment is a wonderful way to spend an hour or two. It can take the mind quite away from the stress it was feeling, it can remove us from sticky problems, give us new perspective, or at the very least, give us enough distance so that we can address things differently.

The purpose, possibly the original purpose, of entertainment was to enlarge our scope of possibilities, by broadening our imagination. The only trouble is when we start to believe it, because then that very same entertainment that could have opend up doors into worlds unknown becomes the tunnel vision that restricts and holds us back.

It is important to have flights of fancy, to open up the imagination to embrace possibilities hithertofore unknown - - it's is the essence of the life-saving process of evolution and survival. If we could not dream, how empty would life be?

However, the difference between enlarging our scope and falling into tunnel-visioned patterns of closed-ness is how much we believe the story. We call to ourselves that which we believe. To open the mind to a possibility makes it possible, so we need the imagination to even think about it, we can believe something and manifest something because we can imagine it. But to consider the imagined image as reality is simply self-deception and serves no purpose at all other than to hold us back from those very things we imagined in the first place.

It's a very important differentiation - it is the difference between realization and the ruse of the mind when it is in fear of leaving it's known and comfy ways.

Risk it. Allow entertainment to spark your imagination, dream a little - but then make it real, go out into the world and manifest it.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2008 Darshan F Jessop