Food for the Mind

        Just as what we eat and drink provides food for the body, our thoughts and feelings provide food for the mind.  We’ve all heard the saying, “You are what you eat.”  That’s true.  We are also what we think.

        We, as traditional people, need to really pay attention to our thoughts.  Do we think about positive, life giving things?  Do we put good things into our minds?  For instance, what type of TV shows or movies do we watch?  What books do we read?  How do you feel afterward?  Do you feel uplifted, good, etc. or do you have negative thoughts and feelings?

        Another issue that can easily be overlooked is our conversation.  What do you talk about?  Do you like to spend your time in idle chatter, gossip, back biting, spreading rumors or lies or does your conversation bring life to yourself and those you are conversing with? 

        In all these areas, you have been feeding your mind.  Just as a daily consumption of junk food will destroy the body, so will pouring junk into our minds produce a toxic mind.  The result can be many things from negative, sad, depressed people to over-stimulated, chaotic, criminal behavior and everything in between. 

We need to consciously think and speak “life.”