Overcoming Media Sensationalism: Finding Calm In A World Of Irrational Fears
The media and the modern world both seem to be incredibly adept at inspiring fear and anxiety in people. Between reports of possible terrorist threats to the mundane possibility that your food could carry several bacterial infections, it can be very hard to find anything that can’t be connected with something unpleasant. All of this paranoia and anxiety can sometimes take a toll on a person’s mental health, even if the effects aren’t particularly obvious. This serves quite an amazing contrast with some many people espousing the message of living life to the fullest filling the airwaves. Of course, nobody really seems to have paid that much attention to how, exactly, to carry that out in today’s environment.
The fact is, there are a lot of things that can cause fear and anxiety in the world. However, it should be kept in mind that people have been living and dealing with those problems for thousands of years. Europe had to endure the widespread infection remembered as the Black Plague and eventually recovered. The Chinese have carried themselves well through the...