Mental Nutrition: More Than Food Enters Your Body

Do you practice “Mental Nutrition?” In other words, do you take as much care for what you allow into your mind as you do for what you put into your body? What do you listen to? watch? pay attention to? What sounds enter your awareness?

Enhance mental nutrition through the Sounds and Sights you Surround yourself with. Minimize and protect yourself from disturbing noises, for example; select information that adds to your self-care; choose to listen to sounds that make you feel good. Do your everyday choices nourish or deplete you? What TV shows do you select? What news or emails do you ingest as you start your morning? Do the conversations you engage in fill or empty your mind? Do you turn on music that assaults or uplifts?

Relative to music, as Dr. Andrew Weil, author of “Spontaneous Happiness” and many other bestsellers puts it, “music has a direct and powerful influence on the nervous system and on our emotions. It powerfully affects the brain and mind. Music can make us calm and excited, can stir us to action, or paralyze us with fear.”

LISTEN: Part of stirring your brain to action could be an international trip; musically, of course! One of the many unique aspects of QiDANCE is its celebration of music “from all the corners of this beautiful planet,” as QiGNITION’s founder and composer, Kike Santander states. Around-the-World music for a well-rounded brain!

LOOK: People love watching Mikhail Baryshnikov, Savion Glover, and the pros on Dancing With the Stars dance for good reason; they are beauty in motion. How many movies or performances have you watched over and over again, just to see (or join in) the dancing? Did you know you were feeding your brain at the time? Viewing dance sequences is associated with activity in the brain’s premotor areas, inferior parietal lobule, and basal ganglia.

LEARN: When making sensory choices for the day, consider whether you opt for a chance to enhance or a time to refine. Do you select noise pollution or sound solution? Every second of every day is a chance to nourish your brain state. Here at QiGNITION we are privileged to be part of your journey to a higher level of Mental Nutrition.

What will you do today to feed your Qi?