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All the
feats that the brain and psyche can achieve—learning through the
senses, memorizing, storing and retrieving information, feeling
positive, and growing through steady use of our muscles—work
best when we eat the optimal combinations of foods and get the
right amount of energy flowing through our well-maintained brain
circuits. There’s a name for this scientifically designed,
best-of-all-possible mind nutrition: BrightFoods; however, if
you want to feel peaceful and think clearly in the long run, you
need exercise, both physical and spiritual, as much as you need
a balanced diet of antioxidants, vital oils, smart proteins, and
slowly absorbed glucose, with a minimum of additives and toxins.
Here’s why these
practices help the mind function. Enormous amounts of energy and
information flow through more than 100 trillion synaptic
connections within the brain and mind. Like inner-city emergency
rooms, police precincts, financial trading floors, and major
news rooms, the brain/mind is a busy place relative to the rest
of the body. In the pursuit of accomplishment and happiness, it
constantly juggles thoughts about the potential for reward vs.
risk, self-preservation, knowledge, integrity, and judgment, to
name just a few. Like the heart and lungs, the brain works
automatically. Unlike those organs, however, it also has a
“manual override.” In other words, an individual can choose to
undertake a lifestyle that reprograms brain cells for maximum
efficiency.
Eating three Bright meals daily and Bright snacking every two
hours without incorporating physical and spiritual exercises
into your routine is a recipe for mind, brain, and body
disharmony and inefficiency.
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