Does the media increase our negativity by focusing on problems in today’s world?

The media often focuses on problems in today's world yes it's true that in the past always there have been problems in the world but today we get to hear problems from different parts of the world so we have to be careful of what kind of input we take in.

Yes, we need to be aware of certain things but unnecessarily if we take too much negativity it just agitates our mind and disturbs us so we need that which not agitates our mind but that which pacifies and purifies our mind. That's why Prabhupada writes in that 17th chapter and he talks about Manah Prasad Somnathom. The austerity of the mind is satisfaction.

It's interesting bro, satisfaction I think is an emotion but Prabhupada is saying satisfaction can be a cultivation and there he writes that the more we study scripture he says if the more we contemplate the world contemplate sense objects we get agitated but the more we study scripture the more the mind becomes peaceful so the more we study scripture if the agitation in the world will come and go but if we are absorbed in Krishna then we will be far less agitated. Thank you.