Using Self Enrichment to Achieve Mind Fitness
August 10, 2009 by admin
Filed under Personal Self Improvement
Meditation is defined in the dictionary as “continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature.” This contemplation of often focused of spiritual or devotional character. Meditation relieves stress and promotes overall health. It can be as simple as reflecting how the day went or finding joy within oneself. These self enrichment activities, as well as other mind exercises, serve to keep the mind fit and performing at optimum level.
Our spiritual habits and meditation patterns are tools to keep our mind fit just as we employ exercise and nutrition to keep our body fit. Our mind is a versatile and complex machine that can be overwhelmed and unable to function properly unless we employ self-enrichment activities and take the time to care for it.
The mind has variable intensity of operation or brainwaves. Different types of activities at different hours of the day produce varying levels of brain wave activity. This is a way for the brain to rest as it copes with the task of processing the different pieces of information received.
When we neglect to provide self enrichment activities, our mind does not get enough rest and is unable to maintain its fitness state. In the same manner as our bodies are unable to function properly if it did not have adequate sleep and rest, the mind also cannot function correctly if it does not have enough rest and attention.
Current alternative medical practitioners and holistic therapists believe that the energy that circulates throughout the body radiates vigor to the mind also. The mind is the control center of the body and the same energy going about the body is utilized by the brain to communicate with the body as well.
Breathing exercises, soothing melodies, candles and aroma therapy are enhancement we employ as we rest and allow our mind to replenish it during our reflection moments. These are not the only methods to keep our mind mentally fit. Self enrichment activities such as absorption of information through reading, and creative play and recreation stimulate our mind and contribute to keeping it healthy and fit.
Many mental disorders trace its origin to the lack of time and effort to keep the mind youthful and drawn to new learning. Self enrichment activities such as learning stimulates the mind to causes it to form new neural pathways which is needed to transmit information from the mind to the body and vice versa. This is also needed in the formation of new memories. We lose fitness if deprive the mind of exercise.