sanjay

what is a mental diet?

a mental diet is essentially replacing your negative thoughts with positive thoughts. flipping the negative thought with the opposite, positive thought. do not think of this as a chore or some special routine. it is a way of redirecting/teaching your mind to create positivity. they are the thoughts you think to yourself, the scenarios you play out in your head, et cetera.

why are mental diets important?

they dictate how you manifest. they are an amazing way to improve your self concept. (note that changing your self concept is also very easy, but going on a mental diet can help improve it. again, this should not feel like a chore, or something that you must do. manifesting is simple and fun, these are just factors that play into the whole picture.) since you manifest constantly–24/7–this can help control how you manifest consciously to get your desires. mental diets are about what you manifest day to day unconsciously. once you learn about the law, you can begin to manifest consciously.

note: once you have accepted the law of assumption, you accept that your universe is a direct reflection/display of your inner thoughts. believing that “negative thoughts/states/beliefs don’t manifest” is a contradiction of everything. however, knowing this, do not fear your mind and what you can manifest! the 3d is malleable and changeable. anything created by you that you don’t want can be reversed. you always and will always have power over this.

how do i improve/start a mental diet?

1. change your thoughts. this may seem very intimidating at first; let me get this clear: you do not need to force yourself into thinking positive thoughts immediately. do not put pressure on yourself to fix everything instantly; you can take a more gradual approach if you feel more comfortable doing that.

(great example from a reddit user on this topic about changing thoughts gradually, day by day:)

i hate myself -> i am actually a decent person -> i choose to forgive myself -> i choose to heal myself -> i am getting better -> i love and appreciate myself day by day -> i am worthy and deserving -> i am powerful -> i am a god(dess)

you do not need to suppress your emotions. it is okay to cry, feel frustrated, and feel/express any feelings you might feel. just remember that this will all change and you can begin a new life of positivity, fulfillment, and peace.

2. be mindful and aware of your thoughts throughout the day. begin to ask yourself what you’re thinking and how you’re feeling. observe what you are telling to yourself throughout the day. tell yourself that you can change your thoughts, and that you are able to redirect them into what you want. try forming a habit of asking yourself, “what am i thinking/feeling right now? is this beneficial to me?”

3. try using the law to your utmost advantage. what you focus on grows. exactly like how you focus on negativity, the more you focus on positive and desirable states, it will grow and become your reality. before you fall asleep, feel good. you can think a happy thought, a nice memory, really anything that makes you feel good. do not fall asleep feeling angry or upset with yourself, fall asleep feeling happy and with an intention that you are improving every day. because you are!

4. self-love. be kind to yourself and do the things that make you happy. the mental diet is about you and you only. reclaim your power and put yourself on that pedestal. you deserve the world.

if things feel hopeless and bleak, continue to persist! if you repeat a bunch of intentions all day long yet also having thoughts like “i don’t believe this”, “this isn’t working”, “where are my desires?” “when is it going to happen?” “i don’t know if i’m doing it right” then you are still allowing doubts and negative thoughts. you change your beliefs by changing your thoughts, so if you want to get what you desire, then change every single thought that doesn’t benefit you.

in neville goddard’s 1955 lecture about mental diets, he tells the story of a young woman who was extremely frustrated by her employer. she felt like she was not valued and respected by her employer. this caused her to feel agitated and upset towards her work and her boss. 

she then came to neville with this problem, and he asked her if she fights with her employer all day in her head, and if she only thinks negative thoughts about her employer. the woman answers yes. neville then advises her to change the tone of her inner conversations. he advises her to think more positively about her employer for a few days. 

she did as she was told, and her employer became more patient, respectful and understanding. as a result, she started to enjoy her work as well.

Buddy if anything is living in your blood (except for more parts of you) in detectable amounts then you have a serious microbial infection and need to go to the hospital.

Picture this: you are a Thing That Lives In The Ocean. Some kind of small multicellular animal a long time ago, before proper circulatory systems existed. “Wow,” you think, metaphorically, “it sure is difficult to diffuse chemicals across my whole body. Kinda puts a hard limit on the size and distance of what specialised organs I can have. Good thing I have all this water around me that’s the same salinity as my cells (they have to be that way so I don’t explode or shrivel up) so I can diffuse and filter chemicals with that.”

“Wait a minute,” you say a couple of generations later, because you’re not actually a small animal but an evolutionary process personified and simplified to the point of dangerous inaccuracy for the purposes of a Tumblr post, “instead of losing all these important chemicals to the water around me, how about I put it in tubes? I can keep MY water separate from the rest of the world’s water! Anything I want to keep goes in my water! Anything I don’t, I dump back into the outside water! I’m a genius! An unthinking natural trial-and-error process that’s a GENIUS!”

“Wow,” you think a great many generations later, “being able to have such control over such high concentrations of important chemicals is so great. Look how big I’m getting. I even have a special pump to move my seawater around, and these cool filter systems to keep the chemicals in it right, and that control and chemical concentration has let me grow so many energy-intensive, highly specialised organs! Being big is so hard. I need special cells just to carry my oxygen around now, to make sure my enormous, constantly-operating body has enough of it.”

At this point you are embodying a fish, and eventually, fish start straying into water with different pressures and salinity levels. (I mean, they do that since befor ehty’er fish, but… look, I’m trying to keep things simple here.) “What the FUCK,” you think. “My inside water is at a different salinity and pressure to the outside water?? How am I supposed to deal with that? I can’t have freshwater inside my seawater tubes! My cells have a set salinity and they would explode! I need to start beefing up my regulatory and filter systems so that my inside seawater STAYS SEAWATER OF THE CORRECT SALINITY even if the outside water is different! Fortunately, adding salt to my seawater is a lot easier than removing it, and I want to be saltier than this weird outside water.” At this point you beef up your liver and urinary systems to compensate for different salinities. (Note: the majority of fish, freshwater and saltwater, have a fairly narrow band of salinities they can live in. Every fish doesn’t get to deal with every level of salinity; they are evolved to regulate within specific bands.)

You also, at some point, go out on land. This is new and weird because you have to carry all of your water inside. “It’s a good thing I turned myself into a giant bag of seawater,” you think. “If I wasn’t carrying my seawater inside, how would I transport all these important chemicals between my organs and the environment?” As you specialise to live entirely outside of the water, you realise (once again) that it’s a lot easier to add salt to water than to remove it in great quantities. Drinking seawater in large amounts becomes toxic; your body isn’t specialised for removing that amount of salt. Instead, you drink freshwater, and add salts to that. The majority of your organs are, at this point, specialised for moving your seawater around, protecting it, adding stuff to it, or taking stuff out. You have turned yourself into an intelligent bag for carrying and regulating a small amount of imitation seawater, and its salinity (and your commitment to maintaining that salinity) is based entirely on the seawater that some early animals started to build tubes around a long time ago.

Because at some point, operating along lines of logic that worked out perfectly so far, you did decide to be a mammal.

A mammal is a machine for adapting to Circumstances. A mammal is a tremendously resilient all-terrain life-support system, with built-in heating, cooling, respiration, and incubators for reproduction. Mammals internalise everything (grudges, eggs) and furthermore are excessively, flamboyantly wet internally. Sure, everyone’s a bag of chemicals; but mammals slosh. Mammals took the concept of an internal ocean and took it in an unnecessarily splashy direction, added aftermarket mods and a climate-control system,

and just to show off, you leaned across the metaphorical gambling table and said: “my internal ocean is so good-“

“Bullshit,” said the shark, keeping it salty (ha)

“My internal ocean is so brilliantly resilient, more so than any of YOURS,” you said, holding their attention with a digit held aloft, “that for my next trick, I shall artistically recreate the ballad of evolution as a performance. I shall craft a complex chemical ballet depicting the origin of multicellular life - using some of my own material, of course-”

“Oh, ANYONE can lay an egg,” yodel the fish, and the ray adds: “ontogeny does NOT recapitulate phylogeny!!”

And you’re like, “yeah no, it’s an artistic rendition, not a literal thing. Basically I’m going to take some cells and brew them up-“

“Like an egg.”

“Like an egg. An egg but internally.”

“Yeah,” said the viviparous reptile, “yeah, like, that can work really well. I’ve always said it’s the highest test of one’s chemical know-how. It’s a lot of work. And forget about support from your family - forget about support from your PHYLUM - all you get is criticism.”

“I’m gonna do it on purpose forever,” you said. “The highest chemical, thermoregulatory, immunological, everything-logical challenge. It’s gonna be my thing.”

“I’m with you,” said a viviparous fish, stoutly. “Representation.”

You kindly don’t point out, once again, that you’re planning to do this outside the ocean, in a range of temperatures; carrying the dividing cells in a perfect 37.5• solution of saline broth in all terrains, breathing oxygen in a complicated matter, you know, bit more difficult; but you need your allies.

“It’s solid,” says the coelacanth.

“But is it metal?” says the deep-vent organism.

“Oh, it’s metal. I will feed the young,” you say, magnificently, “on an echo of the mother ocean. The first rich feast of cellular matter, the first hunt for sustenance, the first bite they sip of our liquid planet-”

Everyone waits.

“Will be a blood byproduct. My own blood byproduct.”

Everyone looks uncomfortable.

“But,” a hagfish says carefully, “don’t you outdoorsy guys still need your blood?”

You cough and explain that if you stay wet enough internally and hydrate frequently, you should be able to produce enough blood byproduct to sustain your hellish new invention until they can eat your peers.

The outrage that follows includes questions like “is this some furry shit?” And: “milk has WATER in it?”

And you won the bet. “My inner ocean is such a perfect homage to the primordial soup that I can personally cook up an entire live hairy mammal in it. And then generate excess blood byproduct from my body and give it to the small mammal until it gets big.”

what’s your favourite memory?

what song(s) describe your mood right now?

tea or coffee?

sunsets or sunrises?

vanilla, chocolate or strawberry?

rain or sun?

is your first language english? if not, what is it?

do you like your ice crushed or in big blocks?

if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

who are you closest to, your father or mother?

what time period would you like to live in other than your own?

is it hot or cold right now?

what is your accent?

has anyone ever saved you from a situation? if so, what happened?

who did you last hug?

who are your top 5 fictional characters?

how have you changed in the past year or two?

biggest regret(s)?

biggest fear(s)?

is your room messy or clean?

have you ever had a near death experience?

favourite scent?

would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

what lyric(s) do you love?

what do you like about yourself?

what would you change about yourself?

do you like your handwriting?

how do you like to style your hair?

what time is it?

what time did you wake up today?

what are your bad habits?

what was your first fandom?

burger or pizza?

do you have any unusual talents?

when did you last feel infinite?

when did you last cry?

who was the latest person to see you cry?

best movie?

best tv series?

have you ever wrote fanfiction?

are you happy?

do you really relate to your zodiac?

what year was you born in?

do you often find yourself jealous?

are you a fan of 80′s music?

what has been your most vivid nightmare?

what has been your most vivid dream?

have you ever had your first kiss?

what has been your most intimate moment?

do you usually start conversations?

are you superstitious?

what do you believe in most, ghosts or aliens?

what song(s) do you hate?

turn ons?

turn offs?

are you comfortable with talking about your flaws?

what are your otp’s?

do you have any bizarre experiences?

do you have a night/morning routine?

do you have a bittersweet memory?

are there any friends that you miss?

do you have an enemy?

are you a night owl or an early bird?

what is your dream job?

if you had to pick a fictional universe to live in forever, which one would you pick and why?

do you know any form of self-defence?

favourite planet?

do you consider yourself to be more masculine, feminine or a mixture?

do you rely on others or do others rely on you?

what do you think happens once someone dies?

are you a leader?

what question do you hate answering?

do you believe in guardian angels?

can you rap?

how do you stay warm?

do you want to be in a relationship?

how was your day?

are there any fictional universes you would not want to be in?

what fictional character do you relate to the most?