Quality nutrition and a balanced diet is essential for our long term health and well-being.
By fueling our bodies with quality food, we can assure that everything functions properly - our organs, joints, muscles etc.
We inherently know that good nutrition and physical exercise is essential for being healthy physically.
This brings about the question as to what can we feed our minds to assure optimal mental health over a long period of time?
Like our bodies, what we choose to feed our minds will ultimately determine our overall quality of life.
If we feed our minds with useless information, then we conform our perception of reality to that information.
So what could we consider to be useful information?
While we are all different, percieve reality differently, and all have different goals in life, any information that we can use to better ourselves is useful.
This is something we all inherently know, but there is a catch…
The catch is that we must first identify what our purpose in life is.
Once we are able to identify our purpose, the information we see as useful will be made clear.
By feeding our minds with useful information, the more focused we become on our mission and purpose.
In times of hardship and difficulty, what we choose to feed our minds becomes even more important.
This is more than shouting positive affirmations and positive thinking.
This is a matter of understanding why we are feeling down or why things in life got hard.
This requires personal self reflection and deep personal understanding.
Understanding that we are human, we all have our own hardships, and we all feel down from time to time is half of the battle.
The other half is understanding the root of why these things happen - why we have negative feelings, why we experience hardship etc.
Nutrition for the mind is equally as important as nutrition for the body.
The body and the mind work together as one.
If we are going to work at making ourselves physically healthy, then we must also work for mental stability.
Work is work, it’s never easy, but our consistent efforts at becoming a little but better everyday will compound over time for a lifetime of reward.