Watch out what you digest

If given an option, where would you pick your evening dinner from?

a)      Fresh homemade pizza waiting at the oven

b)      Yesterday’s ordered soup waiting inside the fridge

c)      Two days back salad left over waiting in the garbage bin

You must be thinking Sudhanya has gone crazy. Isn’t it obvious that fresh home made will be the winner? May be some even go for the second option because Italian is not their thing (that’s crazy!). But I wonder how many of you will go for the last option. Quite sure none.

Now if I re-ask the same question above with the below options:

a)      Pizza

b)      Soup

c)      Salad

I think the answers will be quite distributed, depending on your taste.

Now if I again ask the same question but with bit more tweaked options:

a)      Unhealthy Pizza

b)      Boring soup

c)      Healthy salad

Sudhanya has gone crazy again, obviously the last option is the universal answer for health-conscious beings. Unless they are crazier than me and rather boring or unhealthy. Who wants that for their own body?

Now, just by adding more or less data to the dinner options, the answers could be easily manipulated. Even more, just by adding adjectives like healthy (not factual data), the answers can be made obvious. The dinner order taker/waiter might be lying, so what! If he serves nice looking stale salad, no one would get to know if it was picked from garbage! But you will know, right? When you get a stomach flu.

Now, if I say this was just an analogy to the food we serve to our minds?

Just like we intake food for our physical body’s well being and depending on the quality of the food, it can make us stronger or weaker; similarly we intake thoughts and ideas through conversations, television, radio and wait, the biggest influencers of current times: Netflix & social media!

Just because it is trending, do you think it is healthy for our minds to watch crime and dark action series and not invoke feelings of resentment, judgement and betrayal?

Just because a popular actor features in a commercial, do you think it is healthy for our minds to watch fear installing advertisements to buy processed health supplements?

Just because one-night stands are considered liberal in many societies and hence made look cool in movies, do you think it helps to build trust in our relationships?

If you think you are smart enough to not be affected, you don’t even know the power of visualization on your subconscious mind. It is an advanced science which these program makers are very well aware of and making your salad look greener 😉

Well, nothing to be worried about. The solution is simple. Just say NO to any media that shows emotions which you don’t want to invite in your personal life, not just before you go to sleep. Never. Now I sound seriously crazy, but I mean every word. Go for the menu which has reliable comprehensive data about your meal ingredients and choose an appropriate meal that tastes yummy and nourishes you too.