Reply To: How to stop watching TV

Just to clarify, I technically didn’t stop right away. These are just some of the things I did BEFORE I started this post. A couple weeks after, I said I had enough and went cold turkey.

newyawker (or for anyone really)- I suggest you take small steps at first then go cold turkey. For example, pick one day a week that you won’t watch any shows and on that day, find something more constructive to do with your time, like learning, family time, errands… (for me it was Wednesday, my BY chesed day).

if that’s too hard then try something like watching only on a smaller screen to take away some of the chashivos…

Just remember that you are doing this in order to get closer to HaShem and it says in Shir HaShirim Rabbah (i think), “My children, create for Me a small opening of Teshuvah, as tiny as the head of a pin, and I will open for you openings that even wagons and chariots can pass through.”

Lastly, daven for HaShem’s help along the way. (most important)