Food for Thought - Mental Health
We all have a decided viewpoint about our choice of food.
We don't appreciate anyone pressuring us to eat something that is distasteful to us.
We insist upon our freedom to choose our own nourishment and to satisfy our body's nutritional needs in a manner suited to our personal taste and requirements.
Our minds also must be nourished and reading and listening are the equivalent processes that supply nourishment to our minds.
Regarding written material it is simply a matter of choosing from the seemingly unlimited resources in our libraries.
Listening should be equally simple but is complicated by its potential to be invasive, not only in volume of sound but by vocal projection of repeated thoughts and ideas in the community and through the media.
There is no choice for us to enjoy quiet music or even silence in nature as long as mobile phones accompany people and are used in public places for private matters or when greatly amplified sound is permitted to disturb the environment.
Matters of pollution have not only invaded our physical foods but are more seriously proving detrimental to our brains, nervous systems and our quality of thought.
Many matters are obvious but there are also others more subtle that increase our inner stress levels.
Beyond pollutant channels through harmful reading and listening we must also consider that there is a third important factor that has been officially designated the term 'visual pollution' but seldom curbed in modern society that does not yet recognize the damage caused by rejection of the ideal of beauty and the promotion of discord and ugliness.
In this chaotic world where many enduring values have been destroyed we realise that there is a great need for personal discrimination in all areas that threaten our freedom to live our lives in health, peace and in an environment that will allow quality of thought and maintenance of personal mental integrity.
It is necessary to be aware of various intrusions into our thought world as we are of intrusive habits of others around us and find ways to defend ourselves against commercial advertising, political ideas of 'correctness' and ideas, sounds and offensive images that are not nourishing our minds as we would wish.
We need to seriously consider why many of us have become slaves to the fashionable trends that commerce has offered us and examine why we are willingly accepting to wear items that blatantly promote fashionable names and trends that only promote the interest of the makers.
It is needed that we keep reminding ourselves of the cherished democratic principles we have claimed as our own and play our part in preserving them as in defending society from destructive agencies and habits that are undermining the quality of modern society and are possibly causative factors in the increasing incidence of poor mental health and depression.
We don't appreciate anyone pressuring us to eat something that is distasteful to us.
We insist upon our freedom to choose our own nourishment and to satisfy our body's nutritional needs in a manner suited to our personal taste and requirements.
Our minds also must be nourished and reading and listening are the equivalent processes that supply nourishment to our minds.
Regarding written material it is simply a matter of choosing from the seemingly unlimited resources in our libraries.
Listening should be equally simple but is complicated by its potential to be invasive, not only in volume of sound but by vocal projection of repeated thoughts and ideas in the community and through the media.
There is no choice for us to enjoy quiet music or even silence in nature as long as mobile phones accompany people and are used in public places for private matters or when greatly amplified sound is permitted to disturb the environment.
Matters of pollution have not only invaded our physical foods but are more seriously proving detrimental to our brains, nervous systems and our quality of thought.
Many matters are obvious but there are also others more subtle that increase our inner stress levels.
Beyond pollutant channels through harmful reading and listening we must also consider that there is a third important factor that has been officially designated the term 'visual pollution' but seldom curbed in modern society that does not yet recognize the damage caused by rejection of the ideal of beauty and the promotion of discord and ugliness.
In this chaotic world where many enduring values have been destroyed we realise that there is a great need for personal discrimination in all areas that threaten our freedom to live our lives in health, peace and in an environment that will allow quality of thought and maintenance of personal mental integrity.
It is necessary to be aware of various intrusions into our thought world as we are of intrusive habits of others around us and find ways to defend ourselves against commercial advertising, political ideas of 'correctness' and ideas, sounds and offensive images that are not nourishing our minds as we would wish.
We need to seriously consider why many of us have become slaves to the fashionable trends that commerce has offered us and examine why we are willingly accepting to wear items that blatantly promote fashionable names and trends that only promote the interest of the makers.
It is needed that we keep reminding ourselves of the cherished democratic principles we have claimed as our own and play our part in preserving them as in defending society from destructive agencies and habits that are undermining the quality of modern society and are possibly causative factors in the increasing incidence of poor mental health and depression.
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