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Why Positive News is Good For Your Health
By: Justin Osborne
News consumption affects our bodies as well as our minds. It’s beneficial to keep taking doses of positive news on a regular basis.
How can I remain calm and relaxed when all I hear is bad news? If you’ve been asking yourself this question, welcome to the club!
With so much talk about violence and terror in both the traditional and the digital media, it is almost impossible to find your inner peace these days. When you always keep hearing terrible things, you quickly begin to worry.
Worrying is feeling uneasy or being overly concerned about a situation or problem, which causes the mind and body to go into overdrive as they continuously focus on “what might happen.” The human brain is just not designed to quickly digest all the bad news day after day. For an average person, that’s way too much to handle.
It all began with TV
It all started with television, a one-way communication channel that excessively turned to sensationalism back in the early 1990s. Major broadcasting companies realized that reports on murders and violence improved ratings, so they flooded TV shows and news with crime-related stories.
However, the process had a significant side effect as some people decided to take…
