Oct 16 • General discussion
You are what you eat
I find myself wanting to write this post about several things.
I chose to make this post some kind of "thought release" for myself and perhaps something that also could benefit the reader.
I decided to adress (once again) social media. The thing that makes all of us more connected online, but less connected in real life.
"You are what you eat". Everybody knows the saying and its meaning. Your body can only build off of the things you feed it. If you feed your body shit, shit is the only thing your body can feed off of. So care about it and eat healthy foods and you'll have a healthier body.
Now what I've been thinking more about lately:
The same principle applies to your mind as well.
If you consume shit for your mind (porn, brainrot, ragebaiting politics,...), your mind and thoughts will shift your focus on those things and will build your unconsciousness of off those negative thoughts. And I think, most of the time, thats at least as unhealthy to your mind as a MC's meal is to your body.
Added thought (not really important for my point but still interesting):
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The worst part about this is, that negative things tend do spread further/get more attention on social media than positive things, because our mind is made to detect negative things/threats. That's how we survived initially: by seeing threats and eliminating them.
So you mix the fact, that negative messages spread further on social media AND that your mind (or at least part of it) is made out of what it consumes. We get a generation of unhealthy minded,- and politically more and more polarised people (because negative news are strongly being pushed on social media).
And yet I find myself listing another negative thing about social media haha.
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So what advantage can I pull from this thought process?
If you want to diet for your body, there are mostly 2 things you start taking control over:
- The quantity of food you're eating (and burning)
- The quality of your food and how healthy your food is
So: If you control the quantity of food, (by tracking calories) but still are only eating MC's food thats obv a shitty diet and still unhealthy.
And as I figured out earlier in the text, the principle "you are what you eat" applies to your "mind consumption" or your "phone diet" as well.
So all of the text has been building up for this point I want to make clear mostly for myself (Especially because I currently try to limit on my phone time):
IF YOU CONTROL ONLY THE QUANTITY OF STIMULI GOING INTO YOUR MIND, BUT NOT THE QUALITY OF STIMULI GOING INTO YOUR MIND, YOUR PHONE DIET IS STILL SHIT.
So where do I go from there?
Well, please, for yourself, Dave, control your stimuli.
- If a songtext has a negative impact on you, remove that song.
- If you find yourself angry/upset after a politically polarising video, stop watching those. (Politics probably only really affetc you about 5% of the time, social media just makes it look important to you when it actually isn't).
- Stop watching porn/of/whatever else or anything else that makes you feel empty afterwards
- Start watching things, that make you feel happy and fulfilled
You get the point: Please control not only what you feed your body, but also what you feed your mind. You have only one body and only one mind and you'll ALWAYS take those two things, wherever you go, without exception.
Maybe all of this was obvious to you and i'm the one lacking knowledge, but if not, I thank for your time to read and share my tought :).
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