Be Wise and Knowledgeable to Heal

To heal yourself of any illness, you must be both knowledgeable and wise. Knowledge comes from how your mind perceives and processes the information. Wisdom is how you apply the information acquired to cope with your illness, including your everyday life and living.

The Trauma

If you or your loved ones have been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, or cancer, it must have been a devastating experience for you.

  

Unfortunately, a traumatic experience may have a prolonged effect on the human mind: having overwhelming negative emotions; feeling totally numb and unable to experience pleasure or even pain over a long period of time. The ultimate effect is that it may affect how you think, feel, act, and react in every aspect of your daily life and living.

In other words, your brain is the most important of all your body organs. With its billions of brain cells, your brain is not only most complicated but also most vulnerable to all your health issues and problems related to myasthenia gravis or cancer

Therefore, it is important to keep your brain healthy as much as possible in order to develop a healing mind to cope with all your disease symptoms.

The Healthy Brain

Human wisdom originates from thinking, more specifically, how the mind thinks. Accordingly a healthy brain plays a pivotal role in human wisdom.

This is how you may keep your brain healthy:

Keep yourself hydrated because 80 percent of your brain is water. Drink at lease 7-8 cups of water per day.

Keep healthy gums and floss your teeth regularly to prevent any gum disease.

Enhance and improve blood flow to your brain with your 30-minute exercise at least several times a week.

Eat a healthy diet: high-quality lean protein; low-glycemic and high-fiber carbohydrates; natural and not processed foods.

Avoid inflammation and the formation of free radicals in your body

Avoid sugar and sugary drinks, including all sodas and diet sodas.

Quit smoking, and limit your alcohol consumption to no more than 5 glasses per week.

Manage your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

Maintain healthy levels of nutrients, e.g. vitamin D and omega-3s.

Maintain healthy hormones, e.g. testosterone and thyroid.

Promote good mental health, and avoid anxiety and depression.

De-stress yourself with correct breathing and daily meditation.

Get quality sleep of at least 7-8 hours a night without the help of medication.

Develop meaning and purpose in your life.

In addition to having a healthy brain, you must empower your thinking mind.

The Thinking Mind

The brain is composed of grey matters and neurons or nerve cells that transmit information and messages; they are the building blocks of the brain for the efficient functioning of the thinking mind.

                

Neurons are responsible for all human behaviors in the form of perceptions, which then trigger a mental process in the thinking mind that may result in an action or an emotion. If the process becomes instinctive, then the output in the form of actions or emotions is also automatic and predictable. That is how attitudes and habits are formed, including the fight-or-flight response to any given situation. This automatic or spontaneous mental process is often not “by choice” but by instinct.

But this so-called “learned” mental process is often responsible for the way you think and act, for your beliefs and emotions, for your actions or inactions, as well as for your overall choices and decisions resulting in your behaviors.

The good news is that you can learn to do the following: understand how your thinking mind perceives and processes all your life experiences; recognize your instinctive or automatic mental process; challenge its reality or validity in order to see through the myth or even the deception; and then ultimately change your mental process by taking appropriate actions accordingly.

Wisdom is the capability of the thinking mind to recognize the deceptions behind the quasi-truths perceived, that is, the ability to separate the sheep from the goats.

Your thinking mind processes all your life experiences, and they then become your thoughts and memories, which are the raw materials of your thinking process.

YOU JUST DON'T DIE!

Stephen Lau

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