MEDICINE or POISON: 3 key ingredients for a healthy mind

8 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube video, Matt Kelly discusses how individuals can become either their own medicine or their own poison depending on how they manage internal and external stressors. He emphasizes the importance of cultivating a positive internal dialogue—what he calls the "internal discussion"—and reducing negative self‑talk. He also highlights the impact of external inputs such as media and the people we allow into our lives, urging viewers to put themselves on a "diet" that limits exposure to emotional toxicity. The overall message is that by consciously shaping both internal self‑talk and external influences, we can protect our mental health and foster a healthier mind.

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We can be our own medicine or our own poison. If we have a reasonable and a good relationship to the stressors in our life and our talk to ourself is more positive and helpful than negative, so that's the internal discussion. The other is the external inputs, and that is media or the people that we know, people we let speak into our life. We have to really put ourself kind of on a diet where we minimize the influence of excessive amounts of the emotional toxicity.