"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
Arnold Bennett (1867-1932)
Life is thoughts. Life is over when thinking ceases. Thinking determines the kind of life one leads and the quality of life one experiences. It is biologically impossible for someone to have a thought for another person. Thinking is an individual experience, governed and controlled by an individual's brain. Brain disease and brain injury are poniant reminders of how individualized thinking really is. As much as we might like to help a friend or loved one think, it is impossible.
Managing one's thoughts is the most significant of human tasks , and one of the most overlooked or minimized. Managing one's thoughts is not optional. Thoughts are always managed in such a way as to either maximize or minimize one's life experience.
Mental health, like physical health, is crucial to optimal living, or to use Abraham Maslow's terminolgy, "self-actualization." Ignoring one's physical health or making unwise decisions regarding personal health is costly. When individuals fail to eat properly, neglect excercize and use harmful chemicals on or in their bodies they set themselves up for pain, suffering and premature death.
The same is true of one's mental life. When an individual learns how to think correctly, maximizing positive thoughts while minimizing negative, he or she reaps the benefits of pleasant emotions and productive behavior. Putting positive information into the brain while guarding the mind from intrusive malignant images is health.
Managing thoughts is the greatest of all individual tasks. Manager training is sometimes needed.
Managing thoughts is the greatest of all individual tasks. Manager training is sometimes needed.
