TELEVISION ALTERNATIVES

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• Design a political poster and attend a protest rally.
• Talk with people
• Meditate or join a meditation group
• Find free-thinkers groups, philosopher's cafe's in your area
• Build a meditation altar in your home - buy candles, a meditation fountain
• Change a habit you don't like
• Learn to play the guitar or other instrument and compose music.
• Go to a concert
• Go to the library. Borrow a book. Read David Icke, Eckert Tolle, Zechariah Stitchen, Erich Von Daniken
• Attend library seminars.
• Go ice skating, skiing, roller skating, play badminton, shoot pool, go swimming
• Join a Texas Holdem poker game (free) at a pub in your area.
• Listen to the radio.
• Paint a picture, a mural or a room.
• Find out about your area's community center or park's activities.
• Plan a picnic or barbecue.
• Go on a nature walk
• Make friends and have a relationship with an animal, a tree, a plant.
• Volunteer for a community organization or charity.
• Work out.
• Write a letter to a friend or relative.
• Cook a homemade pizza, cake or something delicious
• Plant a flower, vegetable or herb garden.
• Read alternative magazines or newspapers.
• Throw a party.
• Become a tutor, seminar leader and teach others
• Go camping
• Join a choir or take dance lessons.
• Go through your closets and clothes. Donate surplus items to Goodwill, the Salvation Army or a local rummage sale.
• Start a journal.
• Go to a museum.
• Collect something
• Play cards, games.
• Walk, hike, run, or bike
• Research your family history.
• Visit a bookstore.
• Make or give a gift.
• Write a poem, short story. screenplay, theatrical play.
• Learn to say simple phrases in different languages.
• Learn another language
• Choose a daily affirmation and repeat it to yourself often eg. "I am a compassionate, spiritual being", "I am my own master", "I forgive everyone and everything", "I am a free spirit", "I am grateful for....."
• Ask an older family member to tell you a story about their childhood.
• Watch the night sky through binoculars; identify the different constellations. Look up at cloud patterns
• Visit your local planetarium
• Walk to work or school.
• Join a bowling league. Pool league
• Save money and plan a vacation
• Cancel cable TV!
• Go fishing.
• Attend a Yoga or meditation class.
• Play board games with your family or friends.
• Cook dinner with friends or family.
• Clean up and redecorate your home
• Play with and groom your pet.
• Fly a kite.
• Go on a family trip/historical excursion.
• Build a fort.
• Play Frisbee.
• Go sledding and make a snowman.
• Plan a suprise for someone
• Shoot hoops
• Learn to play chess
• Draw or write poems about places or things you love
• Go to a slam poetry night or open mic poetry reading
• Swap magazines or books with friends.
• Do crossword puzzles.
• Go for a long walk at a new location. Pretend you're a tourist in your own city
• Write a letter to the President or a politician or the editor of a paper or magazine
• Buy a miniature train set and build a railway
• Make funny cards for the holidays or birthdays.
• Play charades.
• Plant a tree somewhere and visit it. Watch it grow.
• Write words of wisdom on slips of paper and give them away
• Write a letter to your grandparents.
• Learn how to use a compass.
• Make friends with someone new
• Go horseback riding
• Learn some new jokes.
• Climb a tree.
• Watch the sunset.
• Have a big party to celebrate a TV-free Week!!