My Brain is My Favorite Thing (I Work Hard to Keep it Free from Trash)

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As you read my blog posts you are receiving thoughts into your brain. That’s how media works. Whatever you read, hear, or see is received into your brain and piles up in your memory. All of that accumulates in the memory storage compartments of your brain. From there it programs the subconscious thinking of your mind and little by little determines the condition of your mental health.

Consuming messed up media and it’s messed up programming messes up your mind. That’s why our contemporary culture, awash with negative, unhealthy, and destructive media content, struggles with so many mental health issues.

Think for a moment about your own media consumption. Ponder it for a bit. Do you really want your mental health to look like the things that you watch, read, and listen to? If your answer is no, you better begin to change your media consumption because it is creating the content of your cranium.

Don’t complain about the programming that you have allowed to control your brain or try to ignore it with alcohol, drugs, diversions, and distractions. Instead begin to wash the dark stain and mental strain from your brain. Reprogram your mind and train it to create the wealth of mental health. Discern and reject the stealth of mental and emotional trash that our culture is constantly trying to sneak into your brain.

Seek out positive media. Those parental ratings on movies and TV-shows aren’t meaningless letters and numbers. They are important warnings trying to alert you to the dangers of malicious media malware that will little by little drain the mental health from your brain. If you don’t want your state of mind to consistently look and feel like trash, refuse to watch, listen to, or read rubbish.

Look for and consume all the PH-4:8 content that you can find. “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” (Philippians 4:8)