No wonder people are unhealthy and unfit eating all the junk food, loaded with unhealthy carbs, ultra processed food, adding sugar in everything they eat or drink, eating deep fried food. What are you feeding your body to feel lively energetic and alert. Added to that we do not care go to sleep on time and have some physical exercise. We watch all kinds of irrelevant and negative news on TV, spend hours watching mindless videos online and browsing social media. We also dump our body with toxins by smoking and drinking.
What we are doing here is basically get addicted to junk food and junk information. Subconsciously we inject agenda and propaganda of others into your mind. We are non-stop getting bombarded by information from all side whether we are at our home or driving or in office or walking. What do you expect now. Will exercising and sleeping well help you when you are dumping different kinds of unhealthy stuff into your body and mind feeling gloomy, hopeless with all the negative grave news promoted by different forms of media.
Many high paying professionals may not feel fulfilled by what they are earning and the kind of lifestyle they are enjoying. We tend to buy things or eat food or give into other diversions to just fill in the gaps and deficiencies we have in our lives. These are false impressions we have in our minds that we can compensate our drawbacks and inner demons with the material stuff. Reason for these kind of reckless behaviors could be anything like unable to commit to a healthy lifestyle and exercising, unable to stick to a diet, inability to remain consistent with the promises we make to ourselves, not maintaining healthy relationships with family, inability to spend productive time with kids, naming busy schedule for missing the promises you made, feeling that you are not good enough to achieve something you desire, believing that you don’t deserve something great in life, unable to have discipline to lead an inspirational lifestyle. We choose diversions to fake our sense of importance. We try to associate our value and reputation in terms of the car or cloths or house we own and the neighborhood we live in, we try to get along with people who do not match our mindset and try to emulate things that they are doing.
This is like trying consciously to make ourselves happier . That means we use all materialistic things to make ourselves happier. This is a never ending process and one could not be happy because they always find some other materialistic need to be happier.
We try to live our lives according to wrong programming we had from childhood. We grew up watching our parents and if our parents told us that getting a job will settle your life and that leads to happiness for the rest of your life, you have created a strong subconscious pattern that I need to get a job to be happy in life as it is associated with desirable partner, car, house, wealth, respect etc. During this process you would never consider the thought of what you are interested in and passionate about.
Being present in the moment, progress, learning and growing as we go through the journey of achieving something is more important that the goal itself. In the process providing some service and adding value to others keeps us going.
Moreover, now a days we are not doing anything to satisfy for our reward systems that are engraved evolutionarily in our brains. You would not earn relaxation and pleasure when you do not go through struggle and challenge. Current lifestyle would not give these opportunities to challenge ourselves physically and mentally on a regular basis. Our jobs are largely sedentary and stressful and many people working in jobs that they don’t want to do but still continue due to myriad reasons.
We go sit at our desks and do our mediocre work which many of us are not excited about and our brains are deprived of the main activities that involves challenge. Evolutionarily our brains had to experience pushing through pain, surviving, hunting, gathering, protecting the family as daily tasks. And the fact is that these are the tasks we feel rewarded and fulfilled. It is gives a sense that we did our duty, we went through struggle and felt great once we achieved it. It is in earing the reward after putting in the required effort gives the brain its necessary dose of healthy hormones and stimulus to build brain tissue. We are not getting the basic physical movement that is needed to keep ourselves prepared for the events ahead. You are not warning up for the day ahead. And then you keep stuffing yourself with random not so nutritious food through out the day at irregular timings. Now your body and brain constantly feel they are not getting what they are supposed to get. Next thing that happens is slow deterioration of your physical and mental abilities.
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