POSITIVE MENTAL FOOD

“Mental fitness continues with the proper feeding of your mind. If you aren’t feeding your mind, it will get weak just as your body will if it isn’t fed. If you go for a day or two without feeding your body, you will begin to get tired and weak. If you fast long enough, your body will cease to function and you will die.

Many of us have had our minds on a fast because of a lack of “food” and training, and as a result they are weak and tired. So one of the first priorities in renewing the spirit of our mind is to get it in shape. We must use discipline to get our minds strong, active and healthy.

Mental fitness comes with proper feeding and exercising of the mind.

The first step in feeding your mind is to remove what I call space-out-time. This is the time you waste mentally by watching hours of worthless television programs. This doesn’t sharpen your mental capacity; it is a waste of mental energy and is space-out time. When a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian spaces out in front of the tube, he or she is acting no differently than the child whose mind is captivated by a video game or a children’s program; the child is oblivious to what is going on around him and is just absorbing junk food into his mind.

Maybe the junk food you’ve been feeding your mind with isn’t television. For you, it might be the radio, novels or magazines. But junk food is junk food. And in order to renew the spirit of your mind, you must break the junk food habit and get rid of space-out time. You must begin to control what is going into your mind and what you are doing with your mind.

Scheduling the feeding of your mind is as important as scheduling your lunch, your job activities and physical exercise. So prepare a simple schedule. Block out space-out time with mental refreshment, and you will see a change. If you don’t plan to feed your mind, it will go into atrophy. Without the proper exercise, your mind will become so lazy that you won’t be able to create or come up with the ideas, opportunities, thought, plans and knowledge necessary to succeed and prosper in life.”