Mind Over Matter

I think about how fragile our physical body is. Athletes spend years training for an event only to be sidelined by an unexpected injury or illness. Our physical body is susceptible to injury, but so is our spiritual body otherwise known as our mind. There has been a lot of talk in the news lately about mental health in the wake of the mass shootings around the country. It makes me wonder why you don't hear about these things happening in other countries. Does our society make us more susceptible to mental illness? In spite of our frailties there is a lot that we can do to combat mental illness and improve our mental health. We learn to work out and make our bodies stronger, but we're never taught how to make our mind stronger. The book The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor addresses this subject head on and provides some insight into this topic.