Everybody knows physical health can be improved and maintained through proper nutrition and exercise. However, with mental health we tend to focus more on diseases and medication. While physical health issues can be prevented through diet and exercise, mental health issues somehow just happen to us out of the blue.
So I started this thread to celebrate the healthy mind and preventive measures such as positive thinking, healthy attitudes, and proper "mental nutrition and exercise".
The other day I watched a TV program where they interviewed some retired guy down in Texas (I think?) who had built his own sculpture park out in the desert from glass bottles. (He made "bottle trees" etc.) It was very pretty and impressive. None of it was for sale - he did it all just because he liked doing what he was doing, and he refused to sell anything even when offered buckets of cash. Anyway, I was struck by something he said. He said one day he decided he wouldn't bother with negative thoughts any more. From that moment on it was like a mental windshield wiper working continuously in his mind to remove any negative thoughts, and he'd never felt better.
What do you do (if anything) to avoid ending up as a raving lunatic? For example, are there things you try to avoid, such as disturbing TV images, violence in movies, pornography, certain types of music, certain newspapers? And the other way around, are there things/activities you think have a positive effect on mental health? Or do you think none of this is important?
So I started this thread to celebrate the healthy mind and preventive measures such as positive thinking, healthy attitudes, and proper "mental nutrition and exercise".
The other day I watched a TV program where they interviewed some retired guy down in Texas (I think?) who had built his own sculpture park out in the desert from glass bottles. (He made "bottle trees" etc.) It was very pretty and impressive. None of it was for sale - he did it all just because he liked doing what he was doing, and he refused to sell anything even when offered buckets of cash. Anyway, I was struck by something he said. He said one day he decided he wouldn't bother with negative thoughts any more. From that moment on it was like a mental windshield wiper working continuously in his mind to remove any negative thoughts, and he'd never felt better.
What do you do (if anything) to avoid ending up as a raving lunatic? For example, are there things you try to avoid, such as disturbing TV images, violence in movies, pornography, certain types of music, certain newspapers? And the other way around, are there things/activities you think have a positive effect on mental health? Or do you think none of this is important?