The game show to end all game shows

Sunday late at night and you want to watch TV before bedtime.

First you click for the cable channels, On HBO, Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes are kissing as if there‘s no tomorrow at the backstage of a theater. The Filipino channel Kris Aquino and Rene Requiestas. Movies you’ve seen for the ninth time.

You go to the Discovery and National Geographic channels; you are mating polar bears or African tribesmen and piercing their noses and ears. You go for the MTV and there’s Britney Spears piercing you with the I Did It Again, song. Finally you go to local channels, the UHF, and thankfully the weekend news segments are finished.

You start from the channel with the least number and there she was, Mystica gyrating and singing her way to your consciousness, as if she’ll jump out of the TV set and land on your sofa table in her definitive signature split. Ugh, so you click again and again until you chance upon this new "game show" on GMA Channel 7 called Will Your Fortune.

There‘s this mestizo host in coat and tie named George Sison, founder of the Temple of Prayer, Peace and Prosperity, a "transformational center that spreads new thought Christianity." What is this man going to offer in the league now dominated by noontime shows and Christopher de Leon? Is his TV show really a game show?

Then you hold on the channel and listen to George, talking about a clinically-diagnosed sterile wife finally having a baby. Miracle? Perhaps, "what did you do to her, George?" newscaster Amelyn Veloso, the co-host asks him.

"I told her," the seasoned guru said," that first you have to ignore your doctor. Second, pretend that you are already pregnant. So you buy maternity dress, have your picture taken in it. You shop for baby clothes and everyday you have to look pregnant."

George would expound on how one’s thought influence the physical. He said people with recurrent diarrhea want to liquidate something immediately, be it a memory of a traumatic incident in the past, an existing problems or simple hatred of someone. Its close relative, constipation, could be the result of any harbored feeling, some anger or worry brewing within.

These worries, George points out, could be put into positive use because, "what your mind can achieve, your body can conceive."

One segment of the show told the story of Juan Rodrigo, or JR. for a time, JR can only see his dream house, well in his dreams. He kept on reminding himself of that dream house everyday, when he was still renting an apartment. He made a collage of his dream house and put it near his bed so that before he sleeps and the moment he wakes up, he is reminded of his purpose in life.

He would envision himself entering the dream house from the sala, to the kitchen, the rooms upstairs, the garden and everything. He became more eager to face the day, get all the work he can and save up for the dream.

Now, JR lives in that dream house located in an exclusive village whose location we can‘t reveal.

George pointed out that one must have a forgiveness list. He said that one must let go of what is hurting the self. "If you’re not forgiving, you’re full of negatives."

The show ended with a meditation and a positive note that there are always new ways of looking at life. Will Your Fortune, when it decides to air regularly, will be the game show to end all game shows.