Try a balance mental diet

Our brains are amazing things.  They take all the input we give them and try and make sense of it and file it away in our memories. That includes conversations, experiences, feelings, sights, sounds, physical sensations.  Once it is in our memory, our brains use it to evaluate the next thing that happens. If it’s all negative or sensational, our brains will get stuck in that loop. If it is mainly positive our brains will move in that direction.

That’s why I limit my input of news to a short period each morning. It keeps me up to date on the world but doesn’t get me bogged down in doom and gloom and despair at the state of human behavior. I also limit what I look at on social media to posts by friends and family. I don’t watch violent or traumatic TV.

I try to feed my brain mostly healthy, positive stuff without denying that there is pain and suffering in the world. I am aware of it but I don’t gorge on it.  I try for a balanced mental diet.