Your Mind

If you ask a physician, his answer would most likely be the body. If you asked your pastor, his answer would probably be your spirit. And if you asked a professor, he would most likely say your mind.

Are you wondering what the question is? The question is, “What dictates if a person is in good health”? Is it a blood pressure reading, resting heart rate, or cholesterol level? While those things are absolutely important, and certainly one important way of measuring health, there are other equally important areas to take into consideration. Your brain is one of them.

Examining good health from a global perspective requires us to recognize the role that a healthy mind plays. We have to give equal recognition to the mind, body, and spirit. Because truly, can we say a person is healthy just because they are or normal body weight but yet they have a stress level that’s causing them insomnia? Or equally, can we say a person is healthy simply because they are of normal weight and appear relaxed, but yet they lack moral values?

Reading is Exercise to the Mind

I’ll discuss other areas of health in future columns, but for now we’ll focus on your mind and mental health. Just like lifting weights builds your body, books build your mind. One of my favorite sayings is exercise is to the body what reading is to the mind.  Now having said that, one particular book comes to mind that dramatically changed my view of life. That book was Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill.

Now you could argue that there are certainly other ways to stimulate your mind, like games, crossword puzzles, and other analytical activities. And these days you can find just about anything you need on You Tube. But nothing comes close to getting lost in a good book and imagining for yourself the objects, people, colors, and surroundings in a story. You don’t get that when you allow someone else to paint that picture for you.

So do yourself a favor and turn off that video and instead, read something that captivates you. You’ll be doing a huge service for your mind and your overall health at the same time. And really go out on a limb and make it a book, not just a magazine or newspaper. You’ll thank me for it.

Melissa
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